Applications & Product Management Lead

Woodside Energy Ltd • Houston, TX

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About The Position

The Applications & Product Management Lead is accountable for the end-to-end health, delivery, and evolution of the International portfolio of business applications and products. This role leads the applications team day-to-day, ensuring operational stability and translating business demand into predictable, high-quality delivery outcomes, balancing run, change, risk, and cost. The Applications & Product Managment Lead acts as the single point of accountability for all applications for the international region, ensuring alignment with business priorities and enterprise Digital standards.

Requirements

• 10+ years of IT/digital technology delivery across the full solution lifecycle, including architecture, implementation, operational support, and continuous optimization of enterprise applications.
• Industry experience in large-scale, asset-intensive environments (e.g., energy, oil & gas, resources), supporting business critical operations and understanding dependencies between IT and operational systems.
• Leadership of critical application environments, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance of systems supporting distributed and remote operations.
• Team leadership and delivery ownership, coordinating multidisciplinary teams (internal staff, vendors, and contractors) to deliver solutions and support services aligned with business priorities.
• Vendor and contract management, including SLA governance, performance management, and ensuring quality delivery and effective knowledge transfer from third parties.
• Budget ownership and financial oversight, including forecasting, cost tracking, and identifying opportunities for cost optimization across application services and support models.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives, including legacy system modernization, automation of support processes, and implementation of monitoring and observability capabilities to enhance system performance and reliability.
• Contribution to application strategy and governance, including lifecycle planning, risk management, and alignment of technology solutions with business objectives.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technology discipline
• Leadership – ownership of application performance, reliability, and lifecycle management in complex enterprise environments.
• Stakeholder Management – ability to stakeholders, translating operational needs into technology outcomes.
• Cross-functional Team Leadership – leading and coordinating diverse teams across engineering, infrastructure, and service providers.
• Vendor & Service Management – managing third-party vendors, contracts, SLAs, and service quality.
• Financial & Cost Management – budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization for application services.
• IT Service Management (ITSM) – strong knowledge of ITIL practices and tools such as ServiceNow (incident, problem, and change management).
• Continuous Improvement & Modernization – process automation, legacy transformation, and implementation of monitoring/observability solutions.
• Operational Excellence & Reliability Engineering – improving uptime, reducing incidents, and enhancing system resilience (e.g., MTTR reduction, proactive monitoring).
• Strategic Planning & Governance – contributing to roadmaps, standards, and long-term application sustainability.

Nice To Haves

• ITIL certification (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) preferred
• PMP certification (Project Management Professional) preferred – or equivalent project/delivery management credential

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end lifecycle, including availability, performance, and reliability
• Ensure applications meet business needs and remain technically sustainable
• Make and drive lifecycle decisions (enhance, modernize, retire) with full accountability
• Ensure applications meet SLAs and performance targets
• Own incident, problem, and escalation management across teams
• Reduce repeat incidents and improve operational resilience
• Own application demand intake, prioritization, and delivery planning
• Ensure changes and releases are delivered on time, to scope, and quality standards
• Balance run, change, and improvement capacity
• Lead, coach, and develop a high performing Applications team
• Set clear priorities aligned to business outcomes
• Manage team capacity, capability, development and performance
• Manage vendor performance against SLAs, quality, and delivery commitments
• Partner with contracting & procurement on commercial and contractual matters
• Drive knowledge transfer and reduce vendor dependency
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and technology standards
• Maintain compliance with security, data protection, and regulatory requirements
• Partner on design decisions, risk management and modernization initiatives
• Manage application costs within agreed budgets
• Support forecasting and investment planning
• Identify and deliver cost optimization opportunities
• Improve application performance, reliability, and automation
• Drive modernization and legacy application rationalization
• Enhance monitoring, documentation, and observability

Benefits

• Commitment to your ongoing development, including on-the-job opportunities, formal programs and coaching
• Industry-leading 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary carer, and maintenance of superannuation or retirement benefits at the current rate during any period of unpaid parental leave for up to 24 months (plus secondary carer leave entitlements)
• Values led culture with a focus on creating a psychologically and physically safe work environment
• Active employee-led working groups driving initiatives to build an inclusive culture
• Community volunteering opportunities
• Relocation assistance (if required)
• A competitive remuneration package featuring performance-based incentives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior