Application Lead

Lead permanent opportunity | Competitive salary | Flexible working arrangements

Your new company 

This organisation's responsibility is to provide, manage, operate, and protect water supply and sewerage systems for the community. Serving a region with a population of approximately 72,000 people, their activities cover about 25% of the State of Victoria. 

Your new role 

This lead position is responsible for developing projects and implementing new initiatives as well as problem identification, requirement gathering and analysing improvements. The role is 80% technical and 20% leadership, managing the design & integration of corporate/HR systems.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Lead, manage, supervise, and develop initiatives
• Ensure the planning and delivery of ICT enterprise solutions and ensure you meet user’s requirements.
• Deliver high level customer focused technical advice and support to all stakeholders, ensuring system integrity and performance is always maintained.
• Identify, assess and manage/mitigate risk in regard to the ICT enterprise solutions, working within the Risk Management Framework.
• Ensure process and system changes are reflected in all relevant documentation and sound change management and configuration management principles are applied.
• Perform system analysis to identify solution improvements.
• Develop technical content and standards and undertake the development of commercial content in business cases, contract documentation and reports, for ICT related projects in consultation with stakeholders.
• Demonstrate leadership and enthusiasm for staff within the team and motivate those staff to achieve the performance expected of the division (with 1 report initially and the opportunity to expand the team)
• Identify and assist in the solution to any communication and workflow problems observed by suggesting improvements and enhancements to existing systems and processes, in accordance with the organisation's procedures.

What you'll need to succeed 

• Ideally, 5+ years of experience in managing, supporting, or implementing end to end business and/or ICT applications
• Demonstrated experience in the implementation and maintenance of Enterprise Business Solutions such as Technology One, Salesforce, Oracle ERP, Ticketing Tools, HR systems is important to have.
• Good understanding of various technology components; how applications integrate or interact with one another and with other technological components such as servers, databases etc.
• Possess a high-level appreciation of the business wide benefits to be gained from effective enterprise solutions
• Ability to understand and/or define business requirements and translate to technical requirements, solutions, or workarounds.
• Degree in Computer Science
• Possess strong Systems Analysis skills
• Strong technical background in ICT and knowledge of ICT Infrastructure and Database technologies (SQL/Oracle) highly desirable.
• Project Management skills with certifications (Nice to have)
• Information Technology Library Infrastructure (ITIL) foundation certificate
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• PR, Australian citizen, Long term visa applicants accepted. However, no sponsorship is offered in this position. 

What you'll get in return 

• You will be offered the opportunity to work for a small to medium-sized organisation with the opportunity to expand your career.
• This role is offering an autonomous environment with flexibility on hours. You will be working within a supportive environment alongside a dynamic team with a competitive salary. 
• The role also offers extra benefits if you are looking to relocate.

What you need to do now 

If you’re interested in this role, click “APPLY NOW” or email your updated CV to ***************@hays.com.au