Profectus is seeking an experienced Program Director to lead a multi-year registry modernisation program within an Australian Government agency. The program spans more than 20 projects across three workstreams and around 350 people, and is replacing an ADABAS/Natural mainframe, Siebel CRM and Lotus Notes workplace with Dynamics 365, OutSystems/.NET, Databricks, Boomi, AWS and Azure. The work covers program leadership, steering committee and assurance reporting, financial and benefits management, and building the agency’s own program leadership capability.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide overall program leadership in support of the Senior Responsible Officer across three workstreams and more than 20 projects
- Oversee integrated plans, business cases, finances, benefits and resourcing
- Lead reporting to and engagement with the Program Steering Committee and external governance and assurance bodies
- Identify and treat risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies (RAID) early and drive corrective action
- Lead and develop workstream leads and project managers, and manage overall program staffing
- Work as one team with agency executives and other delivery partners across engineering, data, product and change
- Make sure legislative, policy and regulatory decisions remain with the agency and are escalated appropriately
- Coach agency program leaders and build succession for key leadership roles
- Establish program leadership practices,



playbooks and forums the agency can sustain after partner exit
- Track and report capability uplift and dependency reduction against agreed transition criteria

Required Experience

- 15+ years in program delivery
- Leading large technology-enabled business transformation programs ($50m+ or 200+ people)
- Leading programs in the Australian Public Service or a regulated environment at SES-facing level
- Recovering or stabilising complex programs and restoring stakeholder confidence
- Financial, schedule and benefits management across multi-year funding cycles
- Delivery in hybrid agile and waterfall environments
- Executive communication, influence and steering committee management
- Legislative or regulatory reform programs, registries or licensing systems
- Legacy-to-cloud modernisation, including mainframe to modern platforms
- MSP, PRINCE2, SAFe or equivalent certification

Security Clearance Requirements

- Must be an Australian Citizen
- Must have a current AGSVA Baseline Security Clearance (minimum)

Working Arrangements

- Onsite at client premises
- Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane or Traralgon (VIC)

Why Profectus

Profectus partners with Australian Government agencies to deliver trusted ICT capability across complex delivery programs. We take a long term, relationship driven approach, supporting our people across the full lifecycle of their engagement while contributing to outcomes of national importance.

📌 Program Director (Canberra)
🏢 Profectus
📍 Canberra