Senior Digital Delivery Lead / Program Manager

Senior Digital Delivery Lead / Program Manager - Application Modernisation We are seeking an experienced Digital Delivery Lead / Program Manager to lead an outcome-based Australian Government application modernisation engagement. This is not a PMO coordination role. You will lead a multidisciplinary team establishing a reusable application delivery capability across Microsoft Power Platform and Azure PaaS, while taking priority applications from discovery through production and BAU acceptance. Key responsibilities Own end-to-end delivery against milestones, deliverables and acceptance criteria.Lead mobilisation, discovery, design, build, testing, release, hypercare and BAU transition.Manage integrated schedule, scope, RAID, dependencies, decisions and change control.Coordinate business, architecture, cyber, platform, engineering and ICT operations teams.Manage multiple application workloads and competing dependencies.Drive architecture, security, accessibility and operational acceptance activities.Maintain commercial discipline within an outcome/fixed-price delivery model.Provide clear executive reporting and proactively resolve delivery blockers.Lead knowledge transfer and establish sustainable Department capability.
Essential experience 10+ years leading complex digital/application programs.Strong service-provider, systems-integrator or consulting-side delivery experience.Demonstrated fixed-price, milestone or outcome-based delivery accountability.Application development and/or modernisation programs.Australian Government or similarly regulated environments.Agile and DevOps/DevSecOps delivery.Production releases, hypercare and transition-to-operations.Strong executive stakeholder and commercial management.
Technology understanding Good delivery-level understanding of Power Platform, Azure PaaS, Azure DevOps, DevSecOps, IaC/CaC, APIs/integration, identity/security and application lifecycle management.

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