Senior Technology Partner

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is simple: to strengthen communities through responsible energy.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Technology Partner to join our Technology team in Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane on a permanent full-time basis.

Reporting directly to the Strategy and Partnering Manager, you will strategically partner with APA's Technology and Business units to ensure alignment and cohesion between the Business Strategy, Technology Strategy, and Enterprise and Solution Architecture. Your efforts will drive efficiency, maturity, standardisation, and value creation for APA. By supporting the development and execution of technology plans and capabilities, this role aims to boost revenue, optimise costs, enhance user experiences, and mitigate risks. Building strong relationships with peers and business leaders will be crucial to understanding objectives, constraints, and opportunities, ultimately contributing to APA's strategic growth and success in the evolving energy landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and solve key business problems using technology through structured analysis, collaborative engagement, and iteration.
• Develop and manage strategic plans within your portfolio that align with APA's vision, including key metrics, delivery costs, and organizational change impacts.
• Bring technology insights and trends into customer discussions, emphasising the role of technology in achieving strategic business outcomes.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and incorporate technology into business planning.
• Build strategic technology roadmaps for the business unit to achieve desired business outcomes.

Your background

• Bachelor's degree in business, Technology, Project Management, or a related field.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Experience in delivering executive reports and dashboards using tools such as Power BI.
• High level understanding of energy trends, technology, and enterprise architecture and their implications for business strategy.
• Maintain risk responsibilities as outlined in the Master Risk Management Framework.

About the Team

Technology underpins everything we do at APA from helping connect millions of Australians to essential energy sources every day to achieving our net zero ambition - and the capability for our people to make this happen.

To help APA power ahead, the Energy Technology Systems & Data team is focused on enhancing APAs technology offering, providing innovative and progressive technology - enabling APA to be world class in energy solutions.

This is an exciting time for the team, we need people who are courageous, nimble, and ready to make an impact - change makers and risk takers.

Working at APA

At APA we're committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We'll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.

We employee more than 2900 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $27 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia.

And we own over 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to families and industry across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we're focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and their businesses offering reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia's energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers.

We prioritise sustainable outcomes so that APA, our people, customers, and communities can thrive - now and in the future.

Join our team and be part of Australia's energy transition!

We'd love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

Role closes Saturday 31 August 2024. Role Reference number JR1129.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.