About Roy Morgan: Roy Morgan is Australia's most trusted name in market research and data insights. As we continue to evolve our technology offering, we're looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to become the Head of IT's second-in-command for software and data development practices and standards. You will join a business that is putting renewed focus on planning and delivery.

About the Role: This is an opportunity to take ownership of the continued evolution of Roy Morgan Live, our client-facing SaaS platform, while helping bring new AI-powered products and data solutions to market. You'll lead a capable development team, influence technology strategy, and remain hands-on in architecture and delivery.

Why Join Us?

- Be the Head of IT's trusted deputy for software development
- Lead the modernisation of Roy Morgan Live, our flagship SaaS platform
- Drive the development of AI-powered products and client data solutions
- Shape an AI-first engineering culture using modern development practices
- Work with one of Australia's most valuable proprietary data assets
- Influence technology strategy and product direction across the business

What You'll Do

- Lead the modernisation of Roy Morgan Live, shaping its roadmap, architecture and technical direction around client needs.
- Design and deliver commercially focused AI-powered products, MCP servers and client-facing data solutions that bring Roy Morgan insights directly into customer workflows.
- Act as the Head of IT's deputy for software development, helping shape the development roadmap and providing technical leadership across the business.
- Lead, mentor and develop a team of engineers, driving delivery, capability and high-performance outcomes.
- Participate in the agile planning process, working with our BA's and stakeholders to deliver on the company's overall priorities




- Champion AI-first and agentic development practices, including AI coding assistants, AI agents and modern software delivery approaches.
- Provide technical expertise across our SaaS platforms, client APIs, and business-critical C#/.NET applications, driving the adoption of contemporary engineering practices, coding standards, automation, and quality-focused delivery
- Drive best practice in code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, release management, security and software delivery.
- Partner with Data Engineering, Infrastructure and Operations teams to deliver secure, reliable and scalable solutions across our AWS-based environment.
- Champion modern engineering practices, including DevOps, observability, security-by-design and continuous improvement.

About You You are an experienced technical leader with a proven ability to deliver high-quality software solutions, lead and develop teams, and drive modern engineering practices through influence and example.

You will bring

- 8+ years' software engineering experience, including experience leading development teams.
- Proven success modernising customer-facing SaaS platforms and delivering complex software solutions.
- Strong hands-on expertise in C#/.NET, modern web technologies, APIs and cloud-based applications.
- Experience building AI-enabled products, including LLMs, AI agents, RAG and/or MCP solutions.
- Experience using and leading teams adopting AI-assisted and agentic software development practices.
- Strong software architecture,



engineering quality, automated testing and CI/CD experience.
- AWS experience and the ability to work effectively with data platforms and Data Engineering teams.
- A solid understanding of DevOps, infrastructure, security and modern software delivery practices.
- Proven people leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent industry experience.

Highly regarded:

- Experience commercialising AI products or data services.
- Experience working with large-scale data, analytics or insights platforms.
- Experience contributing to technology strategy or acting as a deputy to a senior technology leader.

What We Offer

- Competitive salary package
- Vibrant and supportive culture
- Career growth and leadership opportunity
- Employee Assistance Program
- Annual flu vaccination
- Discounted Myki passes
- Corporate health insurance discounts
- Company social events

To be considered for this role you must have full Australian working rights at the time of application.

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To do this, we may share your information with any recruitment agency engaged to assist with our recruitment processes. Should you, at any time, choose not to proceed with your application you may exit the recruitment process by emailing [email protected] and advising us in writing of your decision.

Background Screening:

Successful applications will be subject to pre-employment and in some circumstances, ongoing background checks which include a criminal history check.

📌 Tech Lead (Melbourne)
🏢 Roy Morgan
📍 Melbourne