Team Lead Systems Engineer - Windows/O365

Insignia Financial; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial seeks a Team Lead Systems Engineer – Windows & O365 to guide a group of up to 10 infrastructure engineers. You will stay hands-on while mentoring, shaping team capability and driving service performance in a modern enterprise environment.

Based in Adelaide, you will oversee incident and SLA management, champion automation and lead strategic projects across Windows Server and MS 365. A strong leader who balances delivery with people development will thrive here.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing technical teams in a large enterprise.
• Proven ability to engage stakeholders and communicate clearly.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching and developing a team of Infrastructure Engineers.
• Overseeing ServiceNow queues, ticket management, escalations and SLA performance.
• Driving operational excellence across Windows Server and Microsoft 365.
• Managing vulnerability remediation, alert monitoring and platform health.
• Supporting Active Directory, Exchange, Entra ID and core infra services.
• Leading continuous improvement, automation opportunities and uplift activities.
• Contributing to infrastructure projects, planning and design.
• Managing on-call capability and ensuring effective support coverage.

Skills

People leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Problem solving

Hands-on IT leadership

Team mentorship

Windows & O365 expertise

Tools

Windows Server

Microsoft 365

Active Directory

Exchange

Entra ID

ServiceNow

Job description

• Lead Engineers
• Own critical platforms
• Stay hands on with technology

Team Lead Systems Engineer – Windows & O365

Technology I Infrastructure Services

At Insignia Financial, we're investing in the technology that keeps our business running and we're looking for a leader who can help lead that journey.

The opportunity to join our team

This is a newly created opportunity for an experienced Systems Engineer with strong Windows and Microsoft 365 expertise who is equally passionate about developing people, driving operational excellence and building high-performing teams.

Leading a team of up to 10 engineers and contractors, you'll combine technical leadership with people leadership, coaching and mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on across our Windows and O365 environments. You'll play a key role in shaping team capability, improving service performance and driving the ongoing evolution of critical infrastructure platforms.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys leading people but still wants to stay connected to the technical challenges, decisions and delivery that come with a modern enterprise environment.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leading, coaching and developing a team of Infrastructure Engineers to foster a high-performing and engaged culture
• Overseeing ServiceNow queues, ticket management, escalations and SLA performance across the team
• Driving operational excellence across Windows Server and Microsoft 365 environments
• Managing vulnerability remediation, alert monitoring and platform health activities
• Supporting Active Directory, Exchange, Entra ID and core infrastructure services
• Leading continuous improvement initiatives, automation opportunities and operational uplift activities
• Contributing to infrastructure projects, planning activities and technical solution design
• Managing the team's on-call capability and ensuring effective support coverage

What You Will Bring

• Strong experience supporting enterprise Windows Server and Microsoft 365 environments
• Experience leading, mentoring or developing technical teams
• Knowledge of Active Directory, Exchange, Entra ID and broader infrastructure technologies
• Experience within service delivery environments, including incident, ticket and SLA management
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and problem-solving skills
• A collaborative leadership style and genuine passion for helping others succeed
• The ability to balance technical delivery, operational oversight and people leadership responsibilities

Find the better way

What gets us excited about working here? Helping people feel good about their money as one of Australia’s leading financial wellbeing organisations. From those starting out to those retiring. As your team, we’ll show up for you and together we will create financial wellbeing for every Australian. Because we know people who are confident about their financial future live better lives.

If this sounds like your kind of career, you sound like our kind of person. With us, you’ll do work that builds your technical know-how and challenges our entire industry to move forward. Along the way, you’ll be free to explore new ideas and technology, solve problems in a team, and independently to get great things done. Around here, we like to call it "putting our fingerprints on the future".

People-inspired tech

Deep expertise combined with creativity can take on the trickiest of problems. Join our team of brilliant minds and mentors as we explore our way to innovation and apply technology in more human ways than ever.

Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

We acknowledge and celebrate the richness that individual differences bring to our team.

If you need assistance or an adjustment during the application process, please reach out and let us know.