Technology Lead

Join us and let’s make a bigger difference together.

Established in 1840, we’re Australia’s first member-owned wellbeing company. Today we have over $1 billion in revenue and provide smart solutions and services to more than 700,000 Australians. We employ over 7000 people and our purpose is to Help People to Thrive.

It’s an exciting time to be joining Australian Unity – we have grown significantly over recent years and are transforming to capitalise on further growth opportunities to help our customers and employees thrive. We operate with commercial principles and with a strong social purpose to create community value. Australian Unity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Our Opportunity:

Reporting to the GM of Engineering, this critical role is responsible for analysing, designing, developing and maintaining scalable, secure and operationally stable solutions with emphasis on innovation and delivering business value. You will provide solution design capability for key projects to ensure the solution delivered meets the needs to the business and the overarching technology requirements.  You will develop strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization, ensuring they understand the scope and value of Customer, Digital & Technology services so that they see us as a vital enabler of their business strategy.

This is a fixed term full time opportunity until 01/11/26

Accountabilities include:

• Incident management, fail & fix and lifecycle management to ensure the health insurance technology stack is and remains fit-for-purpose.
• Implementing the agreed Technology Roadmap including strategic governance (via Architect)
• Identifying and managing tech debt and associated risks
• Working closely with the Architecture team to design technology solutions that meet the needs of the health insurance business
• Ensuring reuse and alignment of capability and technology asset with the remainder of the Retail business and wider organization
• Design, code, test and deploy software solutions across multiple platforms
• Role model the aspired leadership behaviors to source, lead, develop & retain high quality team members aligned to the Australian Unity culture

About You:

This role requires a deep understanding of Technology, leadership experience, operations management and strong stakeholder management (both within the Retail leadership team as well with Group Technology), requiring a collaborative leadership style that drives for quality outcomes whilst taking into account commercial, employee and member requirements as well as governance requirements.

Further to this you will be able to demonstrate the following capabilities / experience:

• In depth knowledge of documentation, coding, testing and deployment using multiple development languages and platforms.
• Proven project and delivery skills, and an ability to work in an Agile environment.
• Strong Software quality assurance and problem diagnosis and resolution.
• Deep commercial software development/design experience, with tertiary qualifications in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Proven experience in a technical leadership role with solution design experience
• Experience working in a health insurance, banking or financial services environments.
• Ability to understand the essential needs of users and meet these needs in well-designed software applications and solutions.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills as well as good skills in time and resource management
• Passionate about applying technology to deliver business value

What’s on Offer:

You will enjoy a range of great employee benefits and rewards including:

• Competitive salary + bonus program
• Enjoy additional yearly Well-Being and Community leave days
• 14-week paid parental leave, with equal benefit for both parents
• Employee Referral Program
• Employee Assistance Program – support and assistance for you and your partner at those times in life when you need it most
• Maxxia Rewards - a great range of discounts and benefits at selected retail outlets, department stores, attractions, travel, cinemas, restaurants.
• Discounts across the Australian Unity business including Private Health Insurance, General Insurance + more!
• Available access to LinkedIn Learning courses through our great Learning platform

For further benefits visit: https://www.australianunity.com.au/careers/culture

Australian Unity is an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from all members of the community, including people of Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander descent, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and, mature aged people.