Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager (Health Manager Level 4)
Keep essential healthcare applications running smoothly across NSW – plus extra days off
• Temporary Full-Time Exempt for up to 30th June 2027
• Hybrid flexibility for work-life balance | Chatswood|
• Attractive salary, from $153,559.00 + 12% Super + 17.5% annual leave loading
Applications Close: 11:59pm, 23rd August 2026
Your work matters at eHealth NSW
As the digital centre of excellence for NSW Health, we design and deliver secure, scalable technology that supports patient care across the state, helping clinicians provide better healthcare, now and into the future.
Join eHealth NSW to create real-world impact, drive meaningful outcomes and support the health of millions every day. Learn more about us at eHealth NSW
Join the Team
As a Senior Project Manager of our eHealth Critical Infrastructure Refresh Program at eHealth NSW, you will help make a real difference in healthcare delivering key infrastructure that supports our customers state-wide.
This role offers the opportunity to leverage skills and expertise to deliver Government Datacentre (GovDC) Health Infrastructure as a Service (HIaaS) VMware Environment on premises refresh project.
In this role, you will:
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the GovDC HIaaS VMware environment refresh, including integrated planning, scheduling and day to day delivery coordination.
• Oversee hardware procurement and vendor performance, ensuring the solution is delivered on time and meets capacity, resilience and performance requirements for workloads remaining in GovDC.
• Lead the build and deployment of the refreshed on-prem VMware platform, including all supporting infrastructure, integration points and provisioning.
• Develop and execute the migration strategy, prioritising the uplift of critical workloads from end-of-life infrastructure while minimising service disruption.
• Drive testing, validation and formal acceptance, ensuring the platform meets agreed service, security and operational criteria.
• Establish services readiness and lead operational transition for ongoing platform management.
• Lead governance across the project, proactively managing risks, issues, dependencies and alignment with concurrent technology and industry changes.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and change management across NSW Health entities, ensuring effective coordination of impacted customers, clear communication of migration impacts and alignment of business readiness to support a seamless transition.
• Provide clear status reporting to program stakeholders and governance forums, escalation of risks, issues and decisions points.
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About You
To be successful in this role you’ll need
• Proven experience delivering complex infrastructure or platform refresh programs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead end to end delivery of large-scale technology migrations, including planning, execution and decommissioning of legacy environments.
• Strong commercial and vendor management capability, with experience overseeing hardware procurement, supplier performance and contract outcomes.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure delivery lifecycle, including design, build, migration, testing, operational readiness and transition to support.
• Highly developed stakeholder engagement skills, with experience coordinating across multiple customers or business units, managing competing priorities and driving alignment in complex environments.
• Strong governance discipline, with the ability to proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies and navigate complex program and organisational interdependencies.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, concise reporting and confidently engage senior executives and governance forums.
• Outcome focused, with a track record of delivering high-risk or time-critical initiatives in large, complex organisations.
What’s in it for You?
At eHealth NSW, our benefits are designed to provide you with the flexibility, growth and support when you need it. We provide:
• Hybrid and flexible working options to support balance and productivity
• Allocated day off per month in addition to annual leave
• Salary packaging to maximise your take-home pay
Hear about how our team benefits from working at eHealth.
Learn More About Us
• Find out how we hire at eHealth NSW
• Check out our diversity and inclusion commitment
How to apply
Share with us your cover letter and most up to date resume (up to 5 pages), highlighting your relevant skills and experience. Please also answer the following questions.
1. Describe a major technology or infrastructure transformation you have led or managed in a complex operational environment. Include the scale of change, current and target state, your specific role, governance approach, key delivery risks, and how you maintained business continuity.
2. Provide a detailed example of your hands-on experience managing a large-scale technology migration. Include the number and type of migration objects, wave planning, sequencing, tooling, reporting, cutover and rollback approach, exception management, and how success was measured.
3. Describe a situation where you delivered a complex program across multiple stakeholders, suppliers, technical teams or business units with competing priorities. Explain how you aligned stakeholders, managed dependencies, resolved conflict, escalated issues, and kept delivery on track.
We recognise that AI tools are increasingly being used to assist with resumes and applications. While we accept their use, we’re eager to see your personality and get to know the person behind the application!
For further discussions around the role or recruitment process, including adjustments, please contact our Talent Advisor at or Hiring Manager, Chitra Mukhra and quote REQ685415.
We will review all applications after the closing date. If your application is successful, you may be invited to take part in additional assessments as part of the recruitment process.
Important information
• This recruitment may be used to establish a Talent Pool for similar roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.
• To be eligible for this role you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen with a current passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia).
• For this role 'Exempt' is refers to a fixed term contract of more than 13 weeks.
• If you currently reside outside NSW, please indicate in your application whether you are willing to relocate if successful.
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