Initiative Lead

About Us

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

About the Role

The SCFE Go-to-Market Initiative Lead orchestrates the end-to-end delivery of Go-to-Market outcomes across SCFE releases. The role connects Value Streams, delivery squads, Product, Technology, PMO and GTM workstreams to ensure scope, sequencing, dependencies and decisions are sufficiently mature to enable customer, colleague and operational readiness. Working in close partnership with the GTM Workstream Leads and Business Readiness Manager, the role converts the SCFE delivery roadmap into an integrated, executable GTM plan and actively manages package-level risks, trade-offs and decisions through activation, stabilisation and transition to BAU.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Type: Permanent

Role Location: 839 Collins Street, Docklands

Work Hours: Full Time (40 Hours/Weekly)

What will your day look like?

This job description emphasises leadership in agile delivery, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and continuous improvement within a collaborative and dynamic environment at ANZ.

Delivery and Coordination

Experienced in agile methodologies and principles, actively engaging with challenges and complex problems, bringing your value stream, squads and stakeholder with you

Drive and coordinate the timing and delivery pace of features built by multiple engineering squads, managing interdependencies across technology areas, value streams and/or other parties

Close collaboration with product owners and embedded risk, compliance, and legal leads managing end-to-end risk

Utilise data and insights to report performance and continuously improve delivery speed and quality

Promotes a culture of continuous improvement whilst partnering with Delivery Performance Lead and Agile Delivery Leads to strengthen standards and frameworks

Stakeholder Engagement and Team Leadership

Partner with Agile Delivery Leads, Product Owners, and Tech Leads to attain high performance and quality outcomes within squads

Partner with Value and/or Tech Platform Stream Leads to working together on planned outcomes foster unified engagement amongst stakeholders and squads

Inspire Agile Delivery Leads and works closely with Agile Delivery Practice Leads to support their continual upskilling and career development

What will you bring?

Initiative Management

• Build, iterate, socialize and visualize the forward plan in line with initiative goals
• Identify and manage risks, issues and dependencies with timely mitigation and escalation
• Identify systemic initiative risks and issues, and be an active contributor in regular risk forums.
• Safely grow, run and iterate our live proposition
• Timely production deployments with minimal outage and impact
• Timely response and repair of production defects in line with SRE budget & priority
• Constantly uplift our delivery capability and team dynamic
• Act as a trusted advisor on delivery health, risk and mitigant strategies
• Regular review and appraisal of our delivery approach
• Partner with Delivery Performance and Agile Practice Leads for continuous refinement.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

Act as a key contact point for initiative performance and escalation management

Provide leadership, guidance and mentorship to leads and other initiative team members

Promote collaboration, knowledge sharing and alignment across business and technology streams

So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you're a candidate with a disability or access requirement, and have an enquiry about the support provided, please let us know on your application or visit ANZ Accessibility and Inclusion Programs for alternate contact methods.

To find out more about working at ANZ, visit https://www.anz.com.au/careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 125917 .

Job Posting End Date

29/10/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)