Senior Mainframe Product Owner: Modernisation & Strategy

Telstra; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work-life integration

Parental leave 16 weeks

Professional development

Telstra mobile plan

Device allowance

Annual leave scheme

Telstra product discounts

Job summary

Telstra is seeking a Senior Product Owner for Mainframe to shape the future of a critical enterprise platform in Melbourne. You will own strategy, investment, roadmap and lifecycle for a large-scale mainframe environment supporting essential business services.

You will balance operational excellence with modernisation, guiding platform through optimisation and transformation while aligning with senior leaders and vendors to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading large enterprise mainframe platforms or portfolios.
• Strong knowledge of mainframe environments including z/OS, CICS, DB2, IMS, MQ, RACF, storage and batch processing.
• Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, investment plans and technology transformation programs.
• Proven success delivering mainframe modernisation, migration, consolidation or decommissioning initiatives at scale.

Responsibilities

• Defining and executing the multi-year vision, strategy and roadmap for the Mainframe platform.
• Owning platform outcomes including availability, security, resilience, performance and cost efficiency.
• Leading investment decisions, business cases and prioritisation of modernisation initiatives.
• Driving simplification, application migration, cloud transition, consolidation and legacy transformation programs.
• Managing strategic vendor and service provider relationships.
• Balancing business needs, risk, technical debt, operational resilience and commercial outcomes.
• Influencing senior stakeholders across business and technology to align priorities and achieve measurable outcomes.

Job description

Telstra is seeking a Senior Product Owner for Mainframe to shape the future of a critical enterprise platform in Melbourne. You will own strategy, investment, roadmap and lifecycle for a large-scale mainframe environment supporting essential business services.

You will balance operational excellence with modernisation, guiding platform through optimisation and transformation while aligning with senior leaders and vendors to deliver measurable business value.