Delivery Director Program Director
Birender Singh
A senior delivery and engineering leader with 15+ years directing complex, multi-team transformation programs across government, financial services, and insurance.
Delivery Director Program Director
A senior delivery and engineering leader with 15+ years directing complex, multi-team transformation programs across government, financial services, and insurance.
Profile
I operate at the intersection of product, technology, and people — aligning executive stakeholder priorities with engineering execution to drive transformation outcomes. My experience spans regulated environments including APRA-governed financial institutions, federal government, and critical national infrastructure, with cross-geography teams across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
I work as an embedded partner rather than through a traditional top-down model — building and leading high-performance teams, shaping governance at program level, and accelerating delivery velocity without compromising quality.
Core Capabilities
Multi-workstream ownership, executive stakeholder engagement, and transformation roadmap execution.
Cloud-aware delivery across AWS, Azure & GCP, cybersecurity & compliance programs, modern data platform delivery, and digital government transformation.
Cross-functional team leadership, Agile / SAFe at scale, AI-augmented delivery operations, and coaching & capability uplift.
Industries
Experience
A track record of leading complex, regulated, multi-workstream programs — and the high-performance teams that deliver them.
Senior client-facing delivery leader, trusted to direct complex, multi-workstream programs as the primary delivery authority for major transformation engagements. Promoted twice in under four years, from Consultant to Senior Principal.
Program delivery lead for Australia's national census digital platform — a AUD $34M, multi-year transformation. Directly accountable for ~AUD $20M of scope across six concurrent workstreams (eForms, security remediation, SOC establishment, Operational Insights Platform, myGov integration, operations readiness). Served as Ops Lead during the live census period; platform stress-tested to 200% of expected peak load before go-live.
Led a 15-person cross-functional team to deliver a document management system on GCP, and directed the inception phase of a complex commercial transformation program.
Led a technical delivery team across Melbourne–Hong Kong time zones to design and deliver a payment platform and voucher management solution — on schedule, in a complex multi-vendor environment.
Led 10 engineers to design and build an Azure-native data platform, replacing fragmented legacy data flows with a modern analytics platform enabling business-wide insight.
Implemented AI copilot agents to automate internal delivery operations — an early-adopter initiative that improved team capacity and reporting efficiency — and mentored junior delivery leaders in AI-augmented delivery approaches.
Senior delivery role embedded within NAB's Information Security program — one of Australia's largest enterprise cybersecurity transformations. Led 2–3 concurrent projects within a 60+ person program.
Technical Business Analyst at WBP Group (2014–2017), Business & Systems Analyst at Sopra Steria (2011–2014), and Test Analyst at Aon (2010–2011). Built foundational expertise across delivery, business analysis, and quality engineering in financial and professional services, progressing into broader delivery and leadership responsibilities.
Education & Certifications
2022
Graduate Certificate in Product Management
2014
Master of Business Administration
Project Management
2009
Bachelor's Degree
Major in Computing
Get in Touch
I'm exploring Delivery Director and Program Director opportunities in the UAE, available to relocate to Dubai between January and March 2027. If you're hiring for a role where delivery leadership and regulated-industry experience matter, I'd welcome a conversation.