You crave a career that pushes you, where you'll meet challenges head on and you're guaranteed to grow.
You’ll have the opportunity to use your expertise in communication, problem-solving, empathy and conflict resolution to help thousands of people every day.
In this role, you'll:
This is a high-impact opportunity to provide strategic leadership across technology compliance, risk, and assurance within a complex and highly regulated transport environment.
You will lead the design, governance, and continuous improvement of enterprise-wide compliance frameworks, spanning technology risk, cyber security, privacy, and WHS, ensuring the organisation consistently meets regulatory, contractual, and internal obligations.
Operating in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment, you will drive proactive assurance activities across internal operations and external service providers, strengthening audit readiness, ensuring safety and compliance outcomes, and enabling informed decision-making through high-quality insights and reporting.
A key focus of the role is leading internal and external audit coordination, ensuring accurate reporting, timely remediation, and effective closure of compliance gaps. You will also establish a risk-based audit and assurance program across suppliers and contractors, ensuring performance aligns with contractual obligations and operational risks are effectively managed.
You will provide authoritative advice to senior leaders and operational teams, guiding the interpretation and application of evolving regulatory requirements, standards, and frameworks. You will also play a critical role in embedding consistent practices across the organisation, aligning divisional activity with broader compliance, risk, and governance expectations.
The role will drive the development of robust compliance data, reporting, and monitoring frameworks, enabling evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and continuous improvement. You will champion a culture of safety, accountability, and compliance excellence, working across teams to build awareness, capability, and behavioural change.
For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack.
About you
You are an experienced senior compliance or risk leader with strong expertise across technology, governance, audit, and regulatory environments, ideally within complex or government organisations.
You bring extensive experience leading compliance and assurance programs, including audit management, risk frameworks, supplier governance, and regulatory reporting across large-scale environments.
You have a strong understanding of technology risk, cyber security, privacy obligations, and WHS frameworks, with the ability to translate these requirements into practical processes, controls, and behaviours across operational teams.
You are an influential communicator, with the ability to engage and advise senior executives, suppliers, and operational stakeholders, balancing competing priorities and navigating complex organisational dynamics.
You bring strong analytical capability, with experience in developing compliance reporting, data insights, and performance metrics that support continuous improvement and informed decision-making.
You are highly organised and able to operate autonomously with a high level of accountability, managing multiple competing priorities while maintaining accuracy, integrity, and quality of advice.
With a proactive and collaborative leadership style, you are passionate about driving compliance maturity, strengthening governance frameworks, and enabling safe, secure, and high-performing technology outcomes across Transport for NSW.
Who we are
Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.
Join us
Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.
Flexible work options may be available. Learn more via Flexible work options and policy
Applications close 11:59 PM Friday 26 June 2026
Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.
Learn more about how to apply via Our recruitment process | Transport for NSW
