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About Future Group
Future Group is not your traditional financial services company – we're a collective of super funds and services committed to changing our planet now for a better tomorrow. When you join us, you’ll become part of a team united by a clear and important mission: to lead the investment movement by advocating and campaigning for a future worth retiring into.
We are looking for someone to join our purpose-led high-growth scale-up in a Head of Technology position. In this newly created role, you will play a pivotal role in translating our technology vision into reality. Acting as 2IC to the CTO, you will drive technical excellence, mentor engineering leaders, and deliver secure, scalable, and innovative solutions that power our mission. And the best bit, you’ll get to work with some fantastic work mates!
Future Group values diverse lived experience and identities, and we strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, those with caring responsibilities, from culturally and racially marginalised groups, with disabilities, who experience ageism, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and those who face social exclusion due to their social class.
We recognise that the recruitment journey may present unique challenges for trans and gender diverse folk, and we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will happily make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate diverse needs, so if there is anything we can do to support you at any stage of your application, please let us know. For more information about DEIB at Future Group, please contact us at [email protected].
About The Role
This role combines strategic influence with hands-on leadership. You’ll lead a team of Tech Leads and engineers, guiding them through architectural decisions, technology transformation, and world-class delivery. You’ll balance technical depth with people leadership, ensuring we have the right capabilities, culture, and practices in place to grow. Most importantly, you’ll inspire our engineering teams to do their best work and represent the technology function confidently across the company.
What you’ll do:
- Shape and own our technology strategy across modern platforms (AWS, .NET, React, Python), while steering the transition away from legacy systems. You’ll love applying your architectural expertise to build scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions.
- Act as the final escalation point for complex technical challenges, leading deep dives and embedding long-term fixes. If you thrive on solving high-stakes problems, this will energise you.
- Champion a security-first culture, embedding practices like secure coding (OWASP), privacy-by-design, and regulatory compliance (CPS234). You’ll love being the guardian of quality, security, and resilience.
- Lead and mentor Tech Leads, empowering them to run high-performing, autonomous squads. If growing and coaching leaders excites you, this role will feel rewarding.
- Drive predictable delivery of the roadmap, working with the CTO to execute key initiatives with excellence. You’ll love the sense of achievement from seeing strategy translate into tangible outcomes.
- Elevate system reliability, performance, and automation, reducing technical debt while boosting innovation. If continuous improvement drives you, you’ll thrive here.
- Represent technology in executive forums, influencing key decisions and deputising for the CTO. You’ll love having the platform to advocate for technology at the highest level.
- Foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, building psychological safety and knowledge-sharing across teams. If you care deeply about people and culture, this will be one of the most fulfilling parts of your role.
You'll love this job if
- You find superannuation opaque and frustrating, if you had the chance to revolutionise the industry to be better for people, you would
- You love sharing your ideas and seeing what happens. At this scale-up, you're not just a small fish in a big pond. Your contributions have a direct influence on our impact and how we work
- You like to be kept on your toes - change is inevitable here. You like to tackle new challenges, and maybe even discover talents you never knew you had
- You thrive balancing big-picture strategy and leadership, with hands-on practical execution. You'll have significant autonomy to define strategy, choose technologies, and develop a high-performing team.
- You're motivated by collaboration, growth, and the chance to develop others. Joining a supportive and ambitious team, you'll play a pivotal role in scaling our data capabilities and mentoring the next generation of data professionals.
We're looking for someone who
- Believes in Future Group’s mission and is motivated to use technology as a force for good.
- Has a passion for building secure, scalable, and modern technology platforms that support a sustainable and equitable world.
- Has proven experience leading and mentoring Tech Leads and engineering teams, with a track record of developing high-performing squads.
- Is a strategic thinker with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach, equally comfortable setting big-picture direction or rolling up their sleeves in execution.
- Communicates clearly and persuasively with both technical and non-technical audiences, and can confidently represent technology at the executive level.
- Has demonstrated experience guiding teams through transformation — whether scaling platforms, re-architecting systems, or evolving engineering practices.
- Brings a strong understanding of security and compliance principles relevant to regulated industries (e.g. CPS234, ISO27001, OWASP).
Essential Hands-on Expertise:
We’re looking for someone who brings the proven skills and experience needed to hit the ground running in a complex, regulated environment:
- Proven track record of engineering leadership, with experience leading leaders (e.g. managing Tech Leads or Engineering Managers).
- Deep technical expertise in cloud-native architecture and modern stacks, ideally AWS, .NET (C#), React, SQL, and Python.
- Strong understanding of secure coding practices, compliance, and regulatory frameworks (e.g. APRA CPS234, ISO27001, OWASP).
- Demonstrated experience in architectural decision-making for large-scale, mission-critical systems.
- Experience working in financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated industries, where security and resilience are non-negotiable.
- Ability to balance strategy and execution, shifting comfortably between long-term roadmaps and short-term delivery.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences (e.g. board, executive, product, risk). Proven ability to deliver complex technology programs on time with quality and predictability.
Some nice-to-haves but are not essential are:
- Experience in the financial services industry
Don’t tick all the boxes?- that’s okay, we like thinking outside the box anyway. We value skills, passion and who you are over what you’ve done or where you’ve studied. So if this job strikes a chord, we want to hear from you!
Why would you enjoy working at Future Group?
- A purpose-driven organisation - spend your days working on making this world a better place! The more we grow, the bigger the impact we are making on climate change and inequality
- A B Corp organisation that cares about how it behaves inside and out
- AFR’s Best Place to Work 2022 for the banking, superannuation and financial services sector
- Flexibility to fit work into your life (not your life around our work). School drop-offs/pick-ups and lunch-time gym sessions are a thing here
- The choice to work from home, from one of our co-working spaces, from anywhere within Australia or even from overseas (for a short period of time)
- The potential to own a piece of the Future Group pie with our unique Employee Share Ownership Program (with some fineprint)
- Fun company-wide events
- Progressive, people-focused policies and benefits including Menstrual and Menopausal Leave, Public holidays swaps, Cultural Leave, Mental Health Leave and Gender Affirmation Guidelines and Leave
- We offer employee network groups for people from diverse backgrounds: SuperGenders for cisgender women, trans men and women and non-binary folks; SuperGlobal for culturally diverse folks; and SuperPride for LGBTQIA+ folks. The groups are a safe, supportive space for people to share experiences and ideas
- An inclusive parental leave package, with 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents of all genders
- A laptop you can use to work remotely plus an allowance to make your working from home setup comfortable
- Other perks such as access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), the ability to purchase leave, novated leasing arrangements for electric vehicles, and a few more to find out!
About Future Group
Future Group is on a mission to change our planet today to secure a better tomorrow. We’re a superannuation-focused company that’s leading the ethical investment movement to advocate for a future worth retiring into.
Our vision is for a future where all of Australia’s retirement savings contribute to positive social and environmental impacts. Together we can use the power of money to build a sustainable and equitable world.
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