Technology Team Lead – Lending Credit Assessment

About us

With more than 160 years of history, we are proud of our position in the community with more satisfied customers than any other Australian bank.  Every day, we work hard to bring our company purpose to life, feeding into the success of our customers and communities and not off it.

We're more than just a bank with banking products. We change the lives of customers and communities. Commercial actions with heart!

Our time is now. We are challenging the status quo and we're excited about our future!

About the Role

Our Technology Lending Practice is transforming, moving to a cloud first model, modernising and simplifying and you can be part of that!  We’re modernising our end-to-end lending platform right from the time our customers begin an application through credit assessment to how their documentation is managed, and loans are settled. We’re uplifting our systems to speed up the lending process reducing manual work through automation and straight through processing. Our goal is to support operational changes that allow our staff to turn around a loan faster and you can be a key part of that!

You will have end to end accountability for our Credit Assessment Technology Service at the bank, including development of the strategy and road map to deliver the future state capabilities.  You will build a high performing team that works collaboratively across the Practice and the group to support the existing Credit Assessment services for the bank and manage down the cost of delivering the service ensuring risks are managed in line with group standards.

You will get the opportunity to work with the newest technologies, mentor others whilst also having access to learning and development platforms plus the opportunity to get certified in cloud technologies.  We offer a hybrid and flexible ways of working. Our community is a place to thrive in if you enjoy working in a changing environment and thinking of creative solutions.

In this role you will get to:

• Support the business to understand current state and develop the target state for the Lending Credit Assessment Service.
• Ensure the Service operates effectively with the right capacity and capability
• Collaborate to manage cross-Practice and Service dependencies for successful business outcomes.
• Manage vendor and partner relationships effectively.
• Develop and present the strategy and deliverables of the Lending Credit Assessment Service to all key stakeholders for support to drive modernisation and simplification.
• Have effective and appropriate Incident, Problem, Configuration, Change and Release Management according to Technology and Group standards.
• Lead and manage development squads.

About You

You will have leadership experience, fostering an environment to encourage collaboration and high performance. Including leading individuals and teams to design, build and deliver various initiatives within a Lending Credit Assessment function.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• A solid technology foundation built from either an IT Engineering or an IT Development background and have the vision to drive change through the development of new innovative technology.
• The ability to take ownership, deliver initiatives end to end, develop roadmaps, maintain BAU activities, manage risk and lead the team.
• Ability to think strategically about how we can modernise and uplift.
• A proven track record of successfully implementing major initiatives using Agile methodologies, including the use of Jira and Confluence.
• Proven project delivery experience with the ability to drive change in a high-tech development environment
• Excellent communication skills, interacting with both business and technical stakeholders at various levels, including managing 3rd party relationships and vendors

Why us?

There's so much more to a career with Bendigo and Adelaide Bank than just banking. 

Get real benefits, work life balance and flexibility. You bring your brilliant mind and we’ll help you take your learning to the next level with on the job training and external development opportunities - we want you to shine. After all, YOU are the difference that makes us the better big bank.

At Bendigo and Adelaide Bank we believe a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is central to our success and we actively encourage applications from those who bring diversity of thought to our business. We support candidate requests for adjustment to accommodate an illness, injury or disability to equitably participate in the selection process.

Be quick to apply as applications will be reviewed as they are submitted, and the advert my close before the listed closing date.