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 solid 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.

📌 Head of Enterprise Platforms (Sydney)
🏢 TAL
📍 Sydney