Job Description

Acknowledgement of Country

CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. View our vision towards reconciliation

Role highlights

• Lead Microsoft Power Platform and M365 strategy and solutions
• Deliver enterprise-scale services across Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, Power Apps, & Power Automate
• Provide technical leadership and drive best practices across the team

About CSIRO

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

Visit CSIRO.au for more information.

The opportunity

As the Technical Lead for Microsoft Power Platform, M365 Technologies, and emerging Microsoft solutions, you will play a pivotal role in shaping CSIRO’s technical strategy.

This role requires deep expertise in Microsoft Power Platform and M365 technologies including Exchange Online, Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, Teams, and related services. With a particular emphasis on integrating Copilot into these services to drive innovation, productivity, and user adoption

Ideally you will be passionate about leveraging the latest Microsoft technologies to deliver secure, scalable, and innovative solutions, with a strong emphasis on integrating AI-powered tools and robust data governance frameworks.

Your high-level duties will include:

• Provide technical leadership to IMT and CSIRO business units. Define and communicate the technical vision, strategy, and best practices for Microsoft Power Platform and M365 technologies.
• Provide guidance to the projects regarding technical activities, scheduling, and resource requirements and foster collaboration between cross-functional teams, including development operations, and support. Communicate effectively with stakeholders to convey technical concepts, project updates, and potential challenges.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, and other stakeholders to create and maintain a roadmap for the evolution of Power Platform and M365 services. Ensure alignment of the technical roadmap with business goals and objectives.
• Lead lifecycle management and service improvement activities across all Identity Services
• Coaching and mentoring of fellow team members

Role particulars

Location and office arrangements: Negotiable, any Aus Capital city with CSIRO site

Salary: AU$135,571 – AU$158,863 + up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure & work schedule: Indefinite, full-time

Reference: 101867

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

Essential criteria

• 5+ years’ experience in planning, developing, and implementing Microsoft platforms and services with relevant tertiary experience or equivalent industry experience.

• Significant experience planning, designing, and implementing Microsoft technologies at an enterprise scale. CSIRO operate these technologies:
  • M365 Services
  • Exchange
  • Teams
  • Viva Engage
  • Power Platform Services
  • SharePoint online Services
• Demonstrated experience utilising automation for maintaining and administering the above technologies.
• Demonstrated ability in providing technical advice to the team, clients and management. Demonstrated ability in coaching and mentoring of junior staff.

• Excellent communication skills, including an ability to work collaboratively across multi-disciplinary, geographically disperse teams.

Desirable:

• Experience planning, designing, and implementing messaging, scripting, Microsoft Server, and Linux environments.

Please note, Under CSIRO policy only those who meet all essential criteria can be appointed.

For full details about this role, including all selection criteria and duties, please review the

Setting you up for success

We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible to everyone. We recognise that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. Please contact Sarah Lyons via email Careers.online@csiro.auand let us know how we can support you.

Eligibility

Applications for this position are open to Australian Citizens only. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may also require a NV1 (SECRET) security clearance. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. We can discuss flexible work arrangements with you during the recruitment process. CSIRO also offers a range of leave entitlements, benefits and career development opportunities. To find out more, visit Careers at CSIRO

Inclusion and belonging

Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes. As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong. We recognise true diversity encompasses all ages, abilities, cultures, faiths, levels of education, genders, sexualities, diversity of thought and much more. We focus on hiring people who share our values of People First, Further Together, Making it Real and Trusted.

CSIRO holds Gold Status for the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and a Science in Australia Gender Equity Bronze Award.

Child safety

CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs. View our Child Safe Policy

How to apply

Please apply online and submit a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) and CV that demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the essential requirements of this role.

Applications close

23 February 11:00pm AEDT