Quality and Deployment Lead

About Centorrino Technologies

Centorrino Technologies (CT) is a vibrant tech community which has been acknowledged as a Great Place to Work for 2024-2025 and ranks among the Best Places to Work Medium & Large Size in Australia for 2025, boasting an exceptional eNPS score of 68. Our commitment to an inclusive and inspiring work environment is unwavering.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee quality assurance, release management, deployment scheduling, and operational readiness activities for multiple ICT projects.
• Create and enforce quality management frameworks, deployment standards, release governance, and related processes.
• Manage release timelines, deployment tasks, and readiness of environments to ensure smooth production rollouts.
• Collaborate with project managers, technical teams, vendors, business units, and operational support to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Lead go-live readiness checks, facilitate deployment workshops, and conduct post-deployment evaluations.
• Track and provide reports on quality metrics, deployment status, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Prepare deployment runbooks, release documentation, testing plans, and materials for operational transitions.
• Ensure adherence to organizational governance, change management protocols, and operational support standards.
• Identify and advocate improvements in testing, deployment, release, and quality assurance throughout the delivery portfolio.
• Support business transitions by providing leadership during deployment lifecycles to reduce operational risks.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Proven leadership in quality assurance, release management, deployment management, or ICT delivery in complex technology contexts.
• In-depth understanding of Software Development Lifecycle, testing approaches, change management, release oversight, and deployment best practices.
• Strong skills in managing multiple simultaneous releases, balancing priorities, understanding risks, and handling stakeholder expectations.
• Experience establishing quality systems, release procedures, deployment protocols, and operational readiness practices.
• Practical expertise with tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, or analogous platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, effective across technical teams, business units, and executive leadership.
• Strong analytical mindset with organizational and problem-solving aptitude, focused on continuous process enhancement.
• Capability to create governance documents, executive reports, deployment plans, and maintain quality indicators and release records.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, DevOps practices, ITIL standards, and contemporary ICT delivery models.
• Experience in government, regulated, or sizable enterprise ICT projects is a significant advantage.
• Relevant tertiary education in IT, Information Systems, Computer Science, Project Management, or related fields.

Additional Information

• This assignment is a 6-month contract position based on-site in Darwin, Northern Territory.
• Candidates must hold a valid Vulnerable People / Working with Children Check (WWCC) and Police Check.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunities for ongoing training and development aligned with career growth.
• Attractive discounts and employee benefits to optimize personal finances.
• Flexible IT equipment options to enhance professional performance, plus access to discounted personal technology.
• Engaging team events fostering camaraderie and celebration.

We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds to help build an innovative, inclusive, and dynamic workforce.