Are you a Product Owner with a talent for platforms and integration experience?

This is a great opportunity to join a leading Australian bank, in a 12-month maternity contract position!

In this senior role, you will create a vision and roadmap that is clear, compelling, and challenging. You will lead a squad focused on platform development and oversee two BAs.

Enjoy hybrid and flexible working arrangements in this Sydney-based position, with three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday).

A day in your life will comprise of owning the product backlog, re-prioritising tasks which you will communicate with the CPO for final approval, and effectively communicating in both technical and layman terms.

Sitting within the platform and infrastructure team, you should ideally have a background in cyber-security or strong identity management, particularly in User Access Management (UAM).

If you thrive on technical challenges while driving customer and business value, contact me at nidhi@theonset.com.au.

Head of National Partnerships - Insurance 

• Customer first, innovative global insurance brand
• Identify, nurture and maximise intermediary and affinity partner relationships
• Drive profitable growth and customer value

Insurance is often a grudge purchase, a product we reluctantly take out, and when we have a claim, we hope and pray we've understood all of the fineprint and there will be a fast, smooth process to recoup what we think we will receive.

As part of this innovative organisation that already has an established global footprint and an impressive brand awareness locally, this role will put you in the driving seat to strategically amplify this brand in Australia through intermediary channels, proudly promoting a product and service offering that is like no other in the market; a product that essentially sells itself and truly solves customer problems because the organisation and all employees have the customer at the heart of everything they do.

How You'll Make An Impact 

• Take full ownership of the development and execution of affinity and partnership business acquisition strategies from inception to execution with a view to achieving revenue targets
• Identify new affinity business opportunities
• Compile a comprehensive pipeline of insurance intermediary opportunities with a focus on health funds and community banks
• Keep abreast of competitor activities and opportunities to maintain a competitive advantage
• Manage existing affinity partner relationships to drive mutual value and benefit
• Manage the bids and tenders process from creation to submission
• Work closely with the leadership team to drive strategic opportunities and keep them abreast of progress to goals

What You'll Need to Add Value

You're a natural relationship driver who thrives on delivering results.  You're self driven, able to think on your feet and adapt your style to suit your audience. You are a great presenter but equally a great listener, taking the time to understand your customer/audience needs and tailor solutions accordingly.  You have a mix of 'hunter' and 'farmer' traits, taking pride in winning new business but equally thrive on nurturing and maximising national, and sometimes geographically dispersed, relationships to their fullest potential.  You will be able to confidently demonstrate your:

• Proven successful strategic sales track record, achieving targets/market share/revenue and exceeding KPIs in the insurance industry  
• Established relationships/knowledge of health funds and community banks will be highly advantageous
• Proven success in driving new business
• Strong leadership, including coaching and mentoring of successful sales teams, showcasing an inspirational leadership style across your team and the business
• Solid understanding and hands on experience managing relationships with third party distribution channels  
• Your ability to build and maintain collaborative strategic and commercial partnerships and networks  

For more details, please apply below or email Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset at michelle@theonset.com.au. 

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

$170,000 - $200,000 + super + $25-30,000 (15%) bonus

Sydney CBD, hybrid (2 days WFH)

Fed up with being treated like a ticket monkey? You might be lacking in advocacy for SRE from your leadership team.

You started with the best intentions, but if SRE is merely seen as sysadmin and observability, your patience is probably wearing thin.

How would things be different if you worked for someone who's considered a thought leader in the SRE space?

Someone whose background is real Google SRE work. Someone who will go to bat with and for you on all things resilience, reliability and velocity.

With the backing of good leadership like this, you get to move the dial with real project work and your career.

We're looking for a Principal Engineer to do exactly that for payment systems at one of the big four banks.

From a tech perspective, the landscape is over 1,000 services running across AWS and GCP (predominantly GCP) and utilising many of the cloud native technologies. It is a relatively new tech stack following event-driven architecture and a platform operating model.

You’ll utilise modern solutions like Dynatrace, Sum Logic and Bitbucket pipelines and build additional tooling around these core capabilities.

From a user perspective, they’ always-on (24x7x365) bank striving for no planned outages, and SLO targets of 99.99.  We have approx. 2 million clients, and with a traffic volume peak of approx. 1000 TPS for the front ends.

What you’ll be doing

This is your chance to shape the direction of SRE with advocacy from a real thought-leader. 

Heading up the Enablement Function, you’ll evangelise best practices to the 30(ish) Platforms. And where necessary, create dedicated function teams in those platforms.

They’re investing in this, and in turn, investing in you.  

In the the short-med term, you’ll have the opportunity to become a manager of a small team and then longer term manage the whole of the SRE function (currently 25 and growing). 

By that point, you’ll be earning north of $300k. 

The building blocks are there, they’ve got a culture receptive to change and the buy-in from leadership to make things happen. 

What you’ll need

It’s a corporate environment, so you’re going to need to be comfortable navigating the politics that come with influencing technical strategy amongst technical leadership. 

You’re likely a Principal or Staff level SRE already so we imagine you’ve already driven SRE adoption in environments where there is significant scale, risk and complexity. 

We want to hear about where you’ve pioneered incident management. Evangelized SRE principles through workshops or documentation. Implemented SLO’s and SLI’s or eliminated TOIL through automation.

If that sounds like you and you’d like to learn more, you can contact Julien Bicknell at The Onset. 

You can email me, Julien@theonset.com.au or call if you prefer, 0406 158 832. 

Every application will receive a response.