Head of Cloud Platform & Architecture

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The Opportunity

You will lead one of the most important platform modernisation programs in our ANZ managed services business: simplifying legacy platforms accelerating our cloud journey and creating the engineering foundations for more automated reliable and intelligent service delivery.

You will be accountable for modernising the core platforms tools data foundations and engineering practices that our services business depends on. Your focus will be to turn platform strategy into execution: leading our Azure and cloud platform journey driving the platform execution required for data centre exit consolidating legacy platforms improving observability strengthening automation and integrating platform capabilities with service management.

The central challenge is to bring structure sequencing and execution discipline to a complex platform environment while maintaining service continuity for existing customers.

This is not a traditional architecture role. We need a senior technical execution leader who can take a north-star platform direction architecture principles and business priorities then convert them into a sequenced governed and measurable delivery program. A key part of this will be building the foundations for AI-enabled and agentic operations: trusted operational data integrated tooling repeatable automation reliable observability and commercially sustainable platform patterns that reduce operational toil and improve service quality.

You will join a platform organisation with significant transformation already in flight. Your role will be to bring clarity structure prioritisation and momentum: deciding what matters most creating the operating model to deliver it reducing legacy complexity improving reliability and building platforms that are scalable secure cost-aware and easier to operate.

Success will be measured by delivered outcomes: migration progress improved reliability reduced toil stronger cost transparency and a clearer path from architecture to execution.

About the Platform Organisation

The Platform Organisation underpins managed services delivery across ANZ and connects into NTT DATAs global infrastructure standards and service capabilities. It brings together the core platform capabilities responsible for cloud platforms legacy infrastructure platform engineering automation observability service tooling and architecture alignment.

You will partner closely with Service Management Delivery Engineering Operations Sales Security Finance and global teams. The role will be central to shaping how platform strategy becomes executable delivery across the ANZ business.

Your team is distributed across Australia and operates in a complex managed services environment with multiple platforms customers tools and legacy constraints. You will build a culture of technical excellence ownership accountability commercial awareness and continuous improvement. You will also help develop the next generation of technical leaders across platform engineering architecture automation observability and operations.

What Youll Do

• Lead platform modernisation across ANZ including cloud adoption Azure platform evolution data centre exit legacy rationalisation automation observability and service management integration.
  
• Translate architecture principles standards and guardrails into practical delivery roadmaps reusable patterns and engineering outcomes.
  
• Bring structure sequencing governance and prioritisation to complex platform initiatives.
  
• Lead and develop technical teams across platform engineering architecture-aligned delivery automation observability tooling and operations.
  
• Evolve the platform operating model toward clearer ownership outcome-based delivery and stronger alignment between architecture engineering operations and service management.
  
• Improve reliability and operational maturity through observability operational readiness SLOs incident learning and automation.
  
• Build the platform data and automation foundations for more intelligent AI-enabled operations.
  
• Improve commercial discipline across cloud consumption tooling vendor spend lifecycle risk and legacy infrastructure costs.
  
• Influence senior stakeholders across service management operations sales security finance and global teams.

Who You Are

Required

• Senior platform cloud infrastructure SRE DevOps or systems engineering leader with experience leading technical teams through complex change.
  
• Proven track record delivering platform modernisation cloud migration data centre exit automation reliability uplift tooling consolidation or operating model transformation.
  
• Strong technical credibility across cloud platforms infrastructure networking automation observability reliability security and operational support models.
  
• Practical architecture judgement with the ability to establish principles standards guardrails and reusable patterns that improve delivery outcomes.
  
• Strong execution discipline with the ability to bring structure sequencing prioritisation and momentum to complex environments.
  
• Managed services or multi-tenant mindset with an understanding of multiple customers contracts service models and commercial constraints.
  
• Strong people leader who can build ownership develop technical leaders and reduce dependency on individual heroes.
  
• Effective senior stakeholder influencer who can communicate technical complexity in business risk cost and service outcome terms.
  

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