A career that gives you more

• Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth to NAB, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution. You will have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.
• We are current looking for an experienced leader to take on the role of Head Of Technology, running the Quality Engineering team.

Your opportunity

• This role provides direction and leadership to the Quality Engineering (“QE”) delivery team of ~400 engineers. The team delivers:
  • System Integration Testing (SIT)
  • Integrated performance engineering
  • Test automation frameworks
  • Test tools and platforms
  • Ad hoc consultancy on testing and quality, as required
• The department is accountable for the final implemented quality of complex, cross-domain software
• Ensure a suitable workforce strategy is in place to manage a significant change budget of $30m+
• The QE brand should characterise the NAB core values, and build advocacy with internal colleagues and external customers, driving a positive and measurable change for the benefit of customers, communities, employees and NAB.

This is a flexible working opportunity

The role and Day to day will include

• Lead a large team of technical engineers across Australia and India
• Encourage and promote diversity in the team, and act as a role model to enable, engage and motivate the team to perform at their highest level
• Coach and develop your leadership team to succeed in all aspects of their role
• Create and execute a clear strategy and roadmap that uplifts the technical QE capability across NAB
• Innovate and embed QE practices that deliver customer value, whilst monitoring and tracking the effectiveness of your strategy across services and platforms
• Make informed commercial decisions of most suitable vendors and software/tools that meet organisational QE needs
• Establish strong working relationships with the senior leaders and owners of technical services across the enterprise, and ensure that the right people, processes, and tools are available to meet the highest level of service and support their roadmap
• The role works closely with U&EU Delivery Orchestration and Innovation Executive, as well as the broader NAB technology teams
• Delivery of a strategy that clearly articulates the approach, timeframes and measures required to uplift the QE service across the bank
• Execution of the strategy, demonstrating measurable uplift of capability across the centralised QE team, as well as uplift of capability in other NAB domains
• Ensuring that the QE team are highly engaged, and people leader scores are in the top 10% as reflected in the Nab staff engagement surveys
• Establishment of appropriate forums and Communities of Practice (CoP’s) that enable QE to uplift their capabilities and staff engagement
• Innovative ideas around leading-edge technology to enable automated and efficient testing practices
• Positively contributing to U&EU and NAB’s culture. As a member of the Leadership Team, taking the time to reflect on self and actively explore development opportunities
• Measurable increase in efficiency and speed of delivery through automaton
• Improvement in QE employee engagement and people leader scores
• Improvement in QE measures that have been defined as a part of the communications strategy
• Improvement in the gender diversification of the QE talent pool using recruitment strategies, reward equality, and representation at all QE employee levels
• Proactively manage risk, meeting all policy and compliance requirements; perform controls; adhere to process and procedures pertinent to role; and escalate events, issues, or breaches as they are identified (risk accountability forms part of all roles, as everyone is responsible for managing risk and compliance)

What you will bring:

• Experience in a technology leadership role with accountability for managing large teams.
• Demonstrate experience as a trusted advisor who influences outcomes with senior executives/stakeholders and/or mitigates issues to achieve outcomes.
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple issues and stakeholders, while working in a dynamic, cross functional and collaborative team environment.

Make a difference through your work

At NAB, we work together to deliver exceptional outcomes that exceed our customers’ expectations. We are an ASX listed organisation that has been serving Australian communities for more than 160 years. We are investing in positive change and our work changes the future of banking. Our colleagues have an impact far beyond work, and you’ll be part of a team that is helping to solve some of society’s biggest challenges.

A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone.

At NAB, we are intent on building a culture we can all be proud of. One based on trust and respect. An uplifting environment where every single one of us feels appreciated and empowered to be our true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It is a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

More focus on you

We are committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities. For more information, please click here.

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If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let the recruitment consultant know.

Continuing building your career at NAB

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. As a valued internal colleague, the hiring manager will be happy to have a confidential chat to you about your experience and interest in the role.

Please note candidate screening methodologies and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let the recruitment consultant know.

*Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.