Integration Lead

Empower Australia’s Payments Future with Cuscal  

At Cuscal, your skills drive change and make a real impact. Whether you’re supporting our clients’ customers in our Fraud Operations Contact Centre or delivering innovative solutions in Product Delivery, your contribution helps shape the payments industry’s future.  

Join a team that values collaboration, innovation and excellence. With a focus on professional growth and flexibility, Cuscal is where you can thrive.  

Forward with Cuscal.  

As part of a conditional, binding agreement to acquire another Australian payment services provider, subject to regulatory approvals, we are looking for an Integration Lead to join our Program team.

The Integration Lead will plan, govern and oversee the successful delivery of the project workstream’s output and product, ensuring the project stream forming part of the program is successfully executed. 

The role will ensure that the strategic outcomes and benefits are delivered within budget and on time and to the level of quality following Cuscal’s Project Management Framework and Project Investment Governance and Execution Framework.  

Inherent to this role is the leadership, project management and delivery expertise. The scope of the role covers all program outcomes, covering technology and non-technology activities. 

You’ll also make an impact by: 

• Establishing integration governance and defining workstreams (as needed) with clear controls to manage progress, risks, and resources. 
• Aligning integration deliverables to strategic outcomes such as synergy realization, cultural alignment, and operational continuity, with guidance from the Program’s Director. 
• Presenting a unified and accurate view of integration progress, managing change control and facilitating trade-offs between legacy systems, processes, and priorities. 
• Applying best practice project management frameworks appropriate to the Program and ensuring data hygiene across program management systems e.g. JIRA, Confluence. 
• Working effectively with internal and external facing teams to develop suitable plans based on the scope of work agreed, manage stakeholders and expectations. 
• Coordinating across internal and external teams and stakeholders throughout the Program, effectively managing interdependencies, sign-offs and communication to ensure timely delivery of work. 
• Facilitating Agile delivery across integration teams, ensuring Scrum practices are consistently understood and applied across squads, including backlog management, sprint planning, and adherence to Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD).
• Empowering teams to self-organise and collaborate effectively to deliver integration outcomes. 

What you’ll bring 

You’ve got an inquisitive nature with the ability to see the bigger picture; you’ve got excellent communication skills and a real knack for influencing and negotiating. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about Agile ways of working.  

To succeed in this role, you’ll have: 

• 7+ years’ experience performing end to end project management of complex initiatives covering business, technology and vendor engagement involving multiple industry stakeholders and multi delivery streams of work 
• Experience of structured project methodologies, tools (Microsoft Project) and recognised project management disciplines overseeing quality assurance and change processes and practises. 
• Strong knowledge and experience implementing Agile ways of working and tooling

Although not required the following experience would be highly desirable:

• Experience with mergers and acquisitions, or in fast-growing environments.  
• Financial Services experience in payments and banking. 

Why Cuscal? 

At Cuscal, you’ll find a strong, successful company that’s reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all.   

Here, you’ll deliver or support interesting, ground-breaking work that has real impact - on Australia’s financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves.  

You’ll innovate alongside skilled, smart, connected teams. 

And you’ll build an impressive, fulfilling career that continues to grow.   

You’ll also enjoy a range of benefits, including: 

• Recognition and growth: Celebrate achievements through IGNITE and grow with tailored development opportunities. 

• Wellbeing focus: Access initiatives supporting physical, mental, and financial health, plus discounts via ‘Cuscal Advantage.’ 

• Diversity and inclusion: Join a workplace that values different perspectives and flexible work arrangements. 

Join us and reimagine the future 

Ready to make an impact? Click APPLY to join today. 

If you’re excited about this opportunity, we’d love to explore how you can contribute to our vision for the future. Screening and interviews may occur before the job ad closing date, so don’t wait - apply now. 

Cuscal is an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment and a positive, barrier-free recruitment process.  

We welcome applicants from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with a disability, LGBTQIA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to explore career opportunities with Cuscal.   

Note: Cuscal does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms.