See yourself being part of a large, transformational change? This could be the role for you!
Who we we:
At Iress, we believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. From the world’s most established financial brands to new and disruptive players, we help improve every aspect of our clients’ businesses so that they can work better every day. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 2,300 people across Australia, the United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, France, New Zealand and Asia.
The opportunity we have:
The Global Head of Workplace Technology is a strategic role that must lead and support a small, global workplace technology group. The role must ensure our people can work effectively and efficiently by providing an environment that is frictionless and collaborative. The role is a hands-on, high-impact role that focuses on people and technology leadership in delivering a simple, modern and reliable set of tools allowing our people to focus on what's important.
Some of the great stuff you will be doing:
Building and sustaining an engineering culture in Iress, ensuring high-quality technical outcomes get delivered with a focus on enabling a global, frictionless work environment
Inspire through coaching, mentoring and leading workplace technology teams to ensure global alignment and consistency
Providing insights and feedback to other teams to deliver value improvement across Iress
Promoting and communicating the technology vision and strategy by engaging with teams and people to increase the understanding of outcomes required. Anticipating changing business and client needs and leading the function to realign priorities and people accordingly
Continuously promote Iress as a leading global technology company and enhance the profile of Iress’ technology externally
In conjunction with other technology teams, lead and execute a continuous improvement in how people work within and across global and regional teams
What would be the ideal experience for you to have:
Understands and has experience leading teams and work that leverages cloud-based infrastructure and services as a foundation for the delivery of quality software and solutions, and has this experience in a company with a strong technical focus
Can motivate and inspire in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
A growth mindset and excitement about tackling the next challenge with a team
Demonstrated ability to negotiate and understand different types of technology licensing approaches, risks and issues within contracts
Has a hands-on and entrepreneurial spirit and style. Enjoys becoming personally involved in all elements of leading the team, while ensuring and promoting team freedom and autonomy to achieve goals and outcomes
Experience in enterprise architecture - can determine and apply appropriate patterns to solve broad and complex domain and technical challenges, and in selecting suitable technologies for implementation. Can lead implementations, and has expert knowledge across software engineering, infrastructure and release engineering
Some of the great things we offer:
Six paid days per year to extend your weekends
State-of-the-art offices
Equity grants for our top 25% performers
Annual Profit Share when Iress meets its annual profit targets
Access to learning and development programs through Udemy
Three days’ leave per year for charity initiatives
Global 36-hour hackathon
Starting school leave - 8.5 days to assist your kids with the transition to school
Discounted health insurance premiums
Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers (up to four weeks for secondary carers), and the ability to work part-time when returning to work.