Team Leader - IT Solutions

Full Time Permanent

Position

Band 8 - Salary Range $127,546 to $142,788 per annum + 12% Super + ADO

Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.

Why join Melton City Council?

Melton City Council is proud to serve one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most diverse communities. We are a forward-thinking local government committed to creating a city where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered.

As a Council, we are driven by innovation, inclusion, and excellence. We deliver high-quality services and infrastructure, promote lifelong learning, and champion health and wellbeing across our municipality. Our team plays a vital role in shaping a vibrant, sustainable future for our residents.

Working with us means being part of a collaborative and inclusive culture that values your growth. We offer:

• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Generous leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements
• A dynamic workplace close to home, surrounded by heritage charm, green spaces, and modern amenities

Join us and help build a city that thrives—where your work makes a real difference every day.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Solution Architect within the Digital and Program Delivery team, this role is responsible for delivering secure, streamlined, and outcome-focused digital solutions through reliable and integrated technology platforms.

Leading a team of internal and external technical resources, working closely with external suppliers and vendors, project teams, IT Service Operations as well as Strategy and Architecture teams. The role will ensure building effective and efficient team for successful delivery of IT Digital and Program delivery plans.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical solutions team ensuring delivery to meet business needs using existing or new systems, applications, or custom developed capabilities within the enterprise architecture constraints.
• Coach, mentor and build effective teams by leading a culture of accountability, teamwork, customer focus and innovation in the team.
• Implement solution analysis related policy, quality systems and procedures to promote the achievement of standards where these standards and associated guidelines are often not available.
• Contribute to the IT Digital and Program delivery plans and cost estimates, compliance, specific IT platform knowledge and development plans, and advice into business cases from delivery aspects.
• Build trusted relationships with business and IT stakeholders. This includes providing thought leadership and expertise in technology design and implementation to help shape and influence the strategies.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• Tertiary Qualification in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or other Information Technology related fields with further formal qualifications in the field of expertise.
• Extensive experience leading, mentoring, and motivating a technology development or platform delivery team responsible for design and implementation of solutions within a medium-sized organisation.
• Experience in applying technology architecture policies and principles into the design, build and implementation of a technology solutions, including data, infrastructure, and business information systems.
• Knowledge of project management framework including PRINCE2 and PMBOK, with extensive experience working with key stakeholders and managing team delivering multiple projects and programs of work.

Culture and Values

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

• Motivate
• Empower
• Lead
• Trust
• Open
• Nurture

Benefits

Staff Benefits | Melton City Council

• 13 ADO's (Accrued Day Off) per year*
• 5 weeks annual leave*
• Genuine Flexible work options
• Additional $500 per annum pro rata superannuation for female employees over the age of 45
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• Access to the Local Government Employee Health Plan (GMHBA) with exclusive benefits
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave)*
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave*
• Wellbeing initiatives

• Eligible for Full Time positions or for Fixed term positions eligible after 12 months of employment.

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Irfan Zafar, Enterprise Architect on 9747 5916.

Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise.

To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.

All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any public health orders applicable to local government.

We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.

Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.

Applications close 11:59pm Wednesday 22 July 2026