Head of Enterprise Platforms

The Head of Enterprise Applications will lead the strategy delivery modernisation and simplification of TALs enterprise application portfolio with a focus on reducing complexity strengthening resilience and enabling faster safer change. Leading across critical platforms including Digital Contact Centre LifeBroker Finance Risk Legal People & Culture and records management this role brings together business and technology leaders product engineering architecture cyber risk and strategic partners to shape roadmaps prioritise investment and deliver against TALs transformation agenda. As TAL continues its transition from legacy platforms and data centre dependencies to reusable cloud-native services the role will drive application simplification cloud modernisation and effective platform ownership while ensuring operational readiness risk and dependencies are carefully managed. Ultimately this role will help create a simpler more resilient technology environment with clearer accountability stronger execution and measurable business value.

In this role you will:

• Enterprise Applications Strategy: Define and lead the enterprise applications strategy and simplification roadmap aligning investment and delivery priorities to TALs strategic objectives technology roadmap and transformation agenda.
• Application Simplification & Modernisation: Drive the simplification of TALs application landscape by reducing legacy dependencies duplicated capability manual effort technology complexity cost and operational risk.
• Enterprise Platform Delivery: Lead delivery across critical enterprise platforms ensuring initiatives achieve agreed business outcomes and are delivered effectively across scope time budget quality and risk.
• Cloud Modernisation & Migration: Lead application readiness for cloud migration and data centre exit working across Technology Architecture Cyber Risk and delivery partners to manage sequencing dependencies resilience and operational readiness.
• Application Ownership & Estate Management: Strengthen application ownership and improve the quality and visibility of application estate data to support informed investment lifecycle consolidation migration and decommissioning decisions.
• Governance Risk & Delivery Assurance: Establish strong governance and provide executive-level visibility of delivery progress investment risks dependencies and outcomes ensuring change is aligned to TALs risk cyber resilience and architecture requirements.
• Stakeholder Partner & People Leadership: Build strong partnerships across business and technology lead and coach high-performing teams and manage strategic vendors and delivery partners to drive accountability collaboration commercial discipline and continuous improvement.

Qualifications :

• Relevant tertiary qualification in information technology computer science engineering business or a related discipline.
• Project program product agile cloud architecture technology risk or service management qualifications are desirable.
• Vendor commercial change management or transformation delivery certifications are desirable.
• Significant enterprise applications leadership experience ideally within a complex regulated environment.
• Proven experience leading large-scale technology modernisation and transformation across multiple business-critical platforms and programs.
• Strong cloud modernisation experience including application migration legacy simplification data centre exit dependencies and operational readiness.
• Strategic portfolio leadership with experience shaping roadmaps prioritising investment and turning strategy into executable delivery plans.
• Strong executive stakeholder management and influencing skills with the ability to simplify complex technology issues and clearly communicate business impact risks and trade-offs.
• Strong commercial governance and risk management capability balancing delivery speed resilience cost quality risk and business value.
• Proven people and partner leadership building accountability across multidisciplinary teams senior business stakeholders vendors and delivery partners.

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time