Director of Technology, Consumer Platform

About the role

Nine, Australia's largest locally owned media company, is looking for a Director of Technology for its Consumer Platform. You will be the single owner of the technical vision, strategy and execution for a major transformation programme that unifies the Streaming and Publishing businesses' technologies into a shared foundation for identity, marketing technology, subscriptions, payments, billing and customer support. The role leads a large, multi-disciplinary engineering organisation of 50-75+ people, including onshore, offshore and vendor teams.

Key responsibilities

• Define the long-term technical vision for the platform (Identity, Accounts, Subscriptions, Billing, Payments, MarTech) with the Product Director
• Lead technical discovery, architecture and vendor management to build modern consolidated stacks
• Drive the strategic retirement of legacy systems while keeping security, compliance and business continuity intact
• Accelerate platform maturity through modern engineering practices, AI integration and flexible global resourcing
• Direct the engineering organisation across Accounts & Engagement, Commerce, Platform Growth and Delivery, and own the delivery roadmap
• Oversee a multi-year enterprise budget, de-risk the programme and allocate resources across onshore and offshore partners
• Report progress, dependencies and risks to Executive Leadership and the Board, and govern vendor and partner relationships against quality and SLAs

Required profile

• 15+ years of technology leadership experience delivering large-scale digital transformation programmes in high-traffic, consumer-facing environments
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams, including onshore, offshore and vendor teams
• Ability to turn business goals into technical strategy, architecture roadmaps and execution plans
• Deep experience evaluating, selecting (RFP) and managing enterprise technology partners (e.g. CIAM, subscription billing, payment systems)
• Budget management and financial governance over multi-million-dollar allocations
• Strong executive presence and communication with engineers up to the Board
• Media, streaming (SVOD/BVOD) or publishing background highly desirable
• Right to work and live in Australia

What we offer

• Flexible work options depending on role and team, such as flexible hours, hybrid work or part-time
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave
• Employee Exclusives programme with brand access and perks
• Digital newspaper subscription to the mastheads and a Stan annual gift voucher