Strategic Technology Planning and Value Lead

Take hold of a monster opportunity and join Australian Retirement Trust as our Strategic Technology Planning & Value Lead, where you'll shape enterprise technology direction, influence investment decisions, and ensure every initiative delivers measurable business value. You'll sit at the intersection of strategy and delivery, guiding roadmaps, aligning stakeholders, and driving value-based prioritisation across complex portfolios.

We're all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As a Strategic Technology Planning & Value Lead, you'll play a critical leadership role in shaping our enterprise technology strategy, ensuring alignment between business ambitions and delivery execution.

You'll work closely with senior leaders to translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, driving multi-year roadmaps and orchestrating delivery planning across diverse pipelines. Your focus will be on value - ensuring investments are prioritised, measured, and optimised to deliver meaningful business outcomes.

You'll champion modern practices like Lean Portfolio Management, guide agile delivery alignment, and influence decision-making with data-driven insights. In a complex and evolving environment, you'll bring clarity, structure, and forward-thinking thinking to how technology enables business success.

This role is a permanent opportunity and is based in Brisbane.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise technology roadmaps aligned to strategic objectives.
• Translate business goals into prioritised technology initiatives and investment plans.
• Define and implement frameworks to measure value realisation and business outcomes.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align priorities and guide technology decisions.
• Lead integrated delivery planning across agile, DevOps, and traditional models.
• Optimise flow across delivery pipelines using Lean Portfolio Management principles.
• Manage work intake processes and prioritisation using value-based approaches.
• Monitor portfolio performance and adjust plans to maximise value delivery.
• Influence funding decisions and strategic trade-offs with data-led insights.
• Foster a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

• You have proven experience in technology strategy, portfolio management, or enterprise delivery leadership.
• Your background includes strong stakeholder engagement and executive-level communication.
• You'll bring deep knowledge of agile frameworks such as SAFe, Scrum or Kanban.
• You're highly analytical with a track record of delivering measurable business outcomes.
• You have experience coaching or mentoring teams in agile or Lean practices.
• Your written communication skills enable strong business cases and reporting.
• You'll be familiar with tools like Jira or ServiceNow.
• You're commercially minded with experience in investment planning and value realisation.
• You can lead through influence and align cross-functional teams effectively.
• You have a degree in IT, Computer Science, Business or a related discipline.

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you'll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. Applications close 11:30pm 10 July 2026.

We don't want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you'll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you've made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us - and recruitment is no different.

Why join us?

Bring your potential to Australian Retirement Trust and unleash our monster possibilities:

• You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
• Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
• Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
• In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support parts of our recruitment process - such as reviewing applications, supporting screening interviews, reference checking, and matching skills to roles. All final hiring decisions are made by people. By applying, you agree to the use of these technologies as part of the recruitment process.