Do you want to play a key leadership role and shape the future of the Tribunal’s critical technology platforms?

Join our team as Director, Application Development and Delivery and lead high-performing technical teams, shape enterprise decisions and deliver secure, high-quality applications with lasting impact.

This new, full time, ongoing role within the Enterprise Technology Group offers flexible working arrangements and can be located in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth or Sydney.

About the opportunity

This role leads the strategic direction, delivery and modernisation of the Tribunal’s enterprise case management systems and broader application portfolio—critical technology that supports application management, case workflows and access to justice.

Partnering with senior executives, business leaders, technology specialists and vendors, you will shape digital priorities, lead complex enterprise-scale programs and build a high-performing multidisciplinary team across delivery, business analysis, change and continuous improvement.

This influential role offers the opportunity to strengthen essential legacy platforms, define the Tribunal’s future case management capability and advance its broader technology, data and digital transformation agenda.

About the Tribunal The Administrative Review Tribunal plays a crucial role in the Australian legal landscape, providing a process for individuals and organisations to seek an independent review of decisions made under a wide range of Commonwealth laws.

We believe in providing our employees with a work environment that is supportive and rewarding. Our culture is one that welcomes all and we embrace flexibility and diversity. We believe our people are our most valuable asset and we work to support the skills, knowledge and capability of our staff.

You can learn more about the Tribunal on our website, About us | Administrative Review Tribunal

What we offer:

We believe the little extras can make a big difference in supporting your success and some of our great incentives include:

- flexible working options, including remote working to support you with your commitments outside of work
- salary packaging options
- access to holistic health and wellbeing programs including Fitness Passport which provides discounted access to 350+ gyms, free annual influenza vaccinations and free eye tests
- generous leave allowances including Christmas to New Year office closure with no deduction from your leave balance.

Read our Enterprise Agreement for more information about our terms and conditions of employment.

Strategic leadership: Lead the application development function, ensuring the right capability, capacity, priorities and delivery approach are in place to meet the Tribunal needs.

Manage end to end development delivery: Ensure approved business requirements and architectural designs are translated into working, tested and production ready systems,



including maintaining legacy applications.

Program and portfolio delivery: Lead complex enhancement and support work programs through delivery, balancing business demand, resources, dependencies, quality, timeframes and budget while maintaining transparent governance and reporting.

Stakeholder and vendor management: Build trusted relationships with senior executives, registry and enabling areas, technical specialists, product owners, vendors and delivery partners to translate business needs into practical technology outcomes and resolve highly complex or competing priorities.

Manage technical teams, vendors and delivery partners: Build capability, address performance and delivery issues, and ensure resources are effectively used to achieve agreed outcomes.

People leadership and change: Lead and develop a multidisciplinary, geographically dispersed team; establish clear priorities and accountabilities; foster collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement; and support the transition from legacy systems to future CMS capabilities.

About you

As an accomplished technology leader with experience delivering large-scale business and digital transformation in complex environments, you combine strategic thinking and sound technical judgement with strong program governance, risk management and decision-making skills, translating business needs into practical technology outcomes. An influential communicator and collaborative leader, you build trusted relationships and guide multidisciplinary teams with ease, and champion customer-focused service.

To be successful you will have:

- Extensive experience leading development teams to deliver highly complex enterprise applications, including experience with platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and comparable platforms.
- Highly developed strategic thinking, judgement and problem-solving skills, including the ability to translate highly complex business and legislative requirements into practical technology outcomes.
- Strong understanding of application development, integration, testing and release practices, with the ability to provide informed advice and challenge technical approaches.
- Strong program governance, risk, security and assurance experience, ensuring development activities operates within established frameworks and architectural direction.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement, influencing and communication skills, including the ability to provide authoritative advice and explain highly complex technical matters clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.




- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams, build capability and accountability, and foster a customer-focused culture of collaboration, innovation, change and continuous improvement.

Qualifications / Experience

Essential:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or professional certifications; or equivalent substantial relevant experience Significant experience leading enterprise ICT products, services or application portfolios within a highly complex organisation
- Extensive experience in the development, implementation and management of Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365 and comparable enterprise platforms
- Demonstrated experience managing critical operational systems and highly complex technology delivery programs, including the leadership of multidisciplinary teams.

Desirable:

- A degree or postgraduate qualification in information technology, digital, business, management or a related discipline
- Professional certification in product management, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, ITIL, COBIT, TOGAF, PRINCE2 or PMBOK.

Eligibility

- Australian Citizenship
- Australian Federal Police Check
- Baseline Security Clearance and pre-employment checks

More information about this position, the scope of the role, duties and required capabilities and experience, is contained within the Position Description and available on our Career Opportunities page.

How to apply:

To be considered, all applications must be submitted online via the Career Opportunities page. Please click on the job title you are applying for, click apply at the top of the page and follow the instructions on the online application.

Please submit a CV (of no more than 4 pages) and cover letter (of no more than 2 pages) addressing how your experience matches the capabilities and experience of role, referring to the position description.

The use of AI in Recruitment

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Merit Pool Acknowledgement A merit pool may be created to fill similar vacancies within the next 18 months. Suitable candidates in this merit pool may be contacted for roles at the Tribunal, or the broader APS.

Our commitment to inclusion and diversity The Administrative Review Tribunal is an Equal Opportunities employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We encourage and welcome applications from people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, all genders, LGBTQIA+ community and mature age people. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us if invited to interview.

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📌 Director, Application Development and Delivery (Australia)
🏢 Administrative Review Tribunal
📍 Australia