Date:
10 Jun 2026
Location:
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Department:
Strategy, Risk & Transactions
Description:
Job Requisition ID: 41236
Flexible work arrangements - work in a way that suits you best.
World-class learning and leadership programs.
Salary packaging - to suit your personal and financial circumstances.
Technical director owning platform architecture, engineering delivery, and AI strategy for a multi-pillar enterprise SaaS product in supply chain risk intelligence. Leads 7–8 engineers. Serves as technical advisor to account leadership and client stakeholders. Consulting/professional services environment.
What will your typical day look like?
Platform & Architecture
Owns architecture across frontend, backend, data, infra, and AI agent systems as one product. Sets technical roadmap. Designs for human and AI agent consumers. Produces formal architecture artifacts for compliance and security gates.
Engineering Delivery & Operations
Owns DevSecOps: deployment strategy, security gates, release governance. Defines engineering standards and operating models. Drives vendor integration across third-party pipelines. Tracks deployment frequency, defect escape rate, production stability.
Client & Commercial Engagement
Solution architect in pre-sales and engagement shaping. Scopes feasibility, writes proposals, represents engineering in steering committees. Owns technical narrative to non-technical executives. Contributes to practice growth.
Team Leadership
Hires, mentors, manages performance, grows engineers to independence. Distributed cross-disciplinary team.
Enough about us, let’s talk about you.
Baseline
8–10 years in application development, with substantial technical leadership experience
Architecture & Technical Depth
Proven architectural ownership spanning frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure — not siloed expertise
Hands-on — writes production code, leverages AI agents as development tools, reviews PRs, debugs production, and prototypes personally
Integration — multi-protocol API design and patterns (scatter-gather, adapter, batch enrichment, event-driven) applied by problem context
Platform operations — DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, database architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, and security/compliance
Leadership & Governance
Engineering governance and team scaling — operating models, hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers to independence
Principal decision-maker with minimal oversight
Client & Communication
Communicates architecture to non-technical executives with clarity and conviction
Direct client/stakeholder engagement in advisory or solution architecture capacity
Desirable
Supply chain, procurement, or trade compliance domain knowledge
Enterprise risk, ESG, or sanctions/screening data platforms
Consulting or professional services delivery
Built or grown a technical practice from zero
AWS cloud platform experience; infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent)
Databricks or equivalent analytics platform
Graph-based data modelling or relationship intelligence
Why Deloitte?
At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.
We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.
We prioritise flexibility and choice. We encourage you to find the right balance between connecting in person with your clients and teams and meeting your own personal needs.
We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.
