Regional Technology Director

Job Description :

Position: Regional Technology

Director Location: NSW - SHS 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills  

Type: Hybrid 3+ days a week in office

 What’s the job? 

Reporting to the SVP, Infrastructure & Enterprise Technology, the Regional Technology Director (RTD) is a senior leadership role within News Corp’s Global Technology (GT) services organisation, embedded within the News Corp Australia Business Unit (BU). As a member of the local Technology Senior Leadership Team, with a dotted-line relationship to the Regional CTO, the RTD represents GT within the Australian business and serves as a primary technology interface between the BU and the broader GT service organisation. 

The role provides a critical two-way connection between local business priorities and global technology capabilities—bringing the scale, expertise and capabilities of GT into the BU while ensuring local requirements and priorities are reflected in global technology strategy and delivery. The RTD acts as a strategic technology partner to News Corp Australia, translating business priorities into technology outcomes and ensuring the BU can effectively leverage GT services, platforms, capabilities and expertise. 

The role enables the business to deliver outcomes faster, more effectively and with greater commercial discipline, while maintaining alignment with GT strategy, standards and operating models. Working through a matrix across regional technology teams and GT functions, the RTD provides leadership and influence across strategy, execution, transformation and service delivery. 

The role champions the adoption of GT standards, architecture, platforms and tools, while ensuring they are applied pragmatically to meet the needs of the Australian business. In partnership with News Corp Australia’s senior technology leaders and GT service and function leaders, the RTD will help shape and execute the organisation’s long-term technology strategy. The role ensures that GT capabilities continue to evolve in response to changing business requirements, while maintaining a strong focus on service quality, stability, agility, innovation, security and business value. Success in the role depends on the ability to operate effectively across a global, matrixed organisation. 

The RTD will build trusted relationships across business and technology leadership teams, create alignment between local and global priorities, and foster strong collaboration across the regions. As a member of the GT leadership community, the RTD will bring the perspective of the Australian business into global technology decision-making while ensuring GT strategy and capabilities are effectively translated into local outcomes. 

Who is in your team: 

● Direct reports - none  

● Matrix reports - Leaders of regional teams (encompassing ~80-100 GT in-region staff) 

Accountabilities & Responsibilities: 

● Business & Stakeholder Partnership: Build trusted relationships with regional and global leaders, major incident & crisis management by facilitating both driving resolution and communicating back to BU stakeholders, change Management & CAB participation, aligning business priorities with technology capabilities, enabling efficient and cost-effective services.

● Regional Infrastructure Leadership: Oversee regional infrastructure across data centres, networks, cloud, compute, storage and telephony, ensuring resilience, availability and performance. 

● People & Service Leadership: Provide strategic and matrix leadership across regional teams, supporting high performance, talent development and effective resource alignment. 

● Strategy & Transformation: Drive regional execution of global infrastructure strategy, adoption of Core Tech & AI, AI workflow integration to identify opportunities for automation, service improvement, simplification and cost optimisation. 

● BU–GT Alignment & Feedback: Own the local BU–GT alignment forum, bringing together disparate business and technology conversations, priorities and feedback to create a single, clear view of key priorities, issues, dependencies and opportunities. Ensure effective two-way communication between the BU and GT, with clear ownership, follow-through and visibility of progress. 

● Financial & Commercial Management: Drive financial and commercial discipline across regional infrastructure, including budgeting, procurement, vendors, investment and cost optimisation. 

● Governance, Standards & Security: Drive adoption of global standards, architecture, governance and controls, partnering with Cyber Security to strengthen regional security and resilience. 

● Global Collaboration & Innovation: Connect regional teams with GT Services to align priorities, share expertise, leverage emerging technologies and identify opportunities for innovation and value creation. 

● Leadership & Capability Development: Strengthen leadership capability, develop talent and promote knowledge sharing and collaboration across regional and global technology teams. Experience & Qualifications:  

● Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline. 

● Technology Leadership Experience: 15+ years of IT management and/or technology leadership experience, ideally within complex, global and matrixed organisations. 

● IT Service Management: Broad experience across the IT service catalogue and end-to-end technology service management, including infrastructure, cloud, workplace, applications, Cyber Security, service management, project and programme delivery, and technology operations. 

● Business & Technology Partnership: Demonstrated experience operating as a senior technology relationship or account leader, translating business priorities into technology outcomes and effectively navigating complex stakeholder environments. 

● Service Delivery & Operations: Strong understanding of service delivery disciplines, including incident, problem, change and request management, service performance, escalation, continuous improvement and operational resilience. 

● Transformation & Delivery: Experience leading or influencing technology transformation, project and programme delivery, service improvement and adoption of new technology capabilities. 

● Governance, Risk & Security: Experience working across technology governance, risk, compliance and Cyber Security, with an understanding of enterprise architecture, technology standards and controls. 

● Commercial & Vendor Management: Experience managing technology budgets, suppliers and commercial relationships, with a strong focus on value, cost optimisation and business outcomes. 

● Occasional Travel: Domestic and international travel to regional hubs, major data centres, office sites, and vendor summits. 

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