Senior Project Manager - Enterprise Migration

• Hybrid work environment
• Based at our Bella Vista office
• Fixed term salaried contract until June 2027

The Reserve Bank of Australia is running a Core Modernisation program which involves a major upgrade of core technology infrastructure. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to assist with the Application Migrations of the program.

RBA operate in a culture of collaboration and open communication. We’re a diverse team with strong communities and a values-driven culture. Feel the personal and professional satisfaction in knowing your talent is respected and your work is appreciated. 

Superb opportunity for Senior Project Manager to lead an extensive technology project, bring your skills and be empowered to have your voice heard. This is a fixed term salaried assignment till 30 June 2027.

Objective:

• Manage, plan, and deliver complex infrastructure, data centre and application migration projects, ensuring outcomes are achieved within agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality, and benefit realisation targets.

• Apply Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies to effectively manage project lifecycles, dependencies, resources, governance, and delivery outcomes while ensuring compliance with organisational frameworks and standards.

• Develop and maintain effective relationships with business and system stakeholders, technology teams, vendors and partners balancing business priorities with delivery timelines and driving informed decision-making.

• Proactively identify and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and change impacts, implementing mitigation strategies and corrective actions to minimise delivery and operational risk.

• Lead cross-functional teams across vendor resources, infrastructure, architecture, business analysts, applications, security, and integration services to ensure successful migration planning, testing, cutover, and operational transition.

• Provide clear project reporting, communication, and governance, leveraging data-driven insights to track performance, improve delivery outcomes, and promote project management best practices across the organisation.

Technical Capabilities:

• Proven experience delivering large-scale infrastructure, data centre and technology transformation programs with strong understanding of servers, storage, virtualization, hosting environments, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.

• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructcure technologies and components, firewalls, load balancing, security controls and application migration-related processes.

• Experience managing application discovery, migration, re-platforming, remediation, testing, and cutover activities, with strong understanding of application architectures, middleware, APIs, and integration dependencies.

• Demonstrated expertise in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid delivery methodologies, with proven ability to influence stakeholders, manage vendors, facilitate decision-making, and establish effective governance frameworks.

• Advanced proficiency in Jira, Confluence, Excel, Power BI, and project reporting tools, with strong capability in project planning, resource forecasting, dependency mapping, data analysis, RAID management, and executive reporting. 

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent industry experience.

• Desirable PRINCE2 Practitioner.

• Desirable Professional certification of a widely used Project or Program Management discipline. This may include Agile related certifications if appropriate (Certified Scrum Master certification or equivalent certification in Agile methodologies).

Be More
Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
Why RBA?

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people.

Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go.

Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry, and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward.

Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.

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