Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Technology Engineering team as a Technical Lead - Platforms.  If you’re a good fit for this role and live in Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne, we’d love you to apply.  

Why join us?

• You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
• Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
• Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
• In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

About the role

We’re all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As the Technical Lead (Platforms), you will provide senior technical leadership to ensure ART’s technology platforms enable scalable, secure and efficient delivery across the organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as the senior technical escalation point for engineering teams, partnering closely with Cloud & Infrastructure, Architecture and Security to resolve platform constraints and unblock delivery
• Driving the simplification and automation of common infrastructure services (e.g. network access, firewalls, proxies) to reduce friction and improve turnaround times for squads
• Leading the design and documentation of complex platform and infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and governance
• Defining and promoting clear, repeatable platform and network patterns to improve consistency and ease of adoption across engineering teams
• Supporting and evolving platform capabilities for containerised workloads and modern engineering workspaces (e.g. VDI, DevBox)
• Embedding strong observability practices, including standardised logging, metrics and tracing, to improve reliability, performance and early issue detection
• Contributing to the platform roadmap by identifying emerging technologies and product features that enhance scalability, stability and ways of working
• Providing technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to foster a culture of innovation, accountability and high-quality solution design

This role is a permanent opportunity. 

📍 Location: Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne. 

About you

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:  

• Extensive experience in platform, infrastructure or solution architecture roles within a medium to large, complex technology environment
• Strong capability in designing and governing solutions across cloud, on‑premises and outsourced environments
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile delivery environments (e.g. SAFe, Scrum), including solution design and documentation
• Proven ability to translate complex technical constraints into clear options and scalable patterns for engineering teams
• Strong leadership skills, with experience mentoring and coaching engineers in sound architectural and design practices
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, including the ability to assess design trade-offs, risks and impacts
• Highly developed communication skills, with experience engaging effectively with engineers, architects, vendors and senior stakeholders
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in IT or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience

About us

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you’ll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

Apply online now

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. Applications close 11:30pm 29 March 2026. 

We don’t want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you’ll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you’ve made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us – and recruitment is no different.