Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.
Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.
Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.
Bring your curiosity, ambition and unique perspective, and help us continue reimagining insurance through innovative thinking, digital capability and a commitment to better outcomes for the people who depend on us.
Job Description
The Head of Enterprise Applications will lead the strategy, delivery, modernisation and simplification of TAL’s 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 TAL’s 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 TAL’s strategic objectives, technology roadmap and transformation agenda.
- Application Simplification & Modernisation: Drive the simplification of TAL’s 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 TAL’s 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.
Benefits
At TAL, we're committed to helping our people thrive both professionally and personally. Depending on your role and eligibility, benefits may include:
- Flexible and blended ways of working that support your work and personal commitments.
- Access to learning, leadership development programs, LinkedIn Learning and global career opportunities through the Daiichi Life Group.
- TAL-funded Life, Income Protection and Total & Permanent Disability insurance, plus employee insurance discounts.
- Wellbeing support including Employee Assistance Program services, wellbeing resources, annual flu vaccinations and health initiatives.
- Additional leave benefits including paid parental leave, wellbeing leave, community leave and purchased leave options.
- Access to TAL Rewards Plus, offering discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and services.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality and maintain partnerships with organisations including Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network and Pride in Diversity. Through our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan, we're also committed to building meaningful relationships, creating opportunities and contributing to positive outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds and are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment experience for all candidates. Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here we’re here to support you.
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