The University of Melbourne
1 opportunity
Australia
5001-10,000 employees
UoM 2026 Emerging Talent Graduate Program
The IT Emerging Talent Graduate Program allows recent graduates to launch a professional IT career that makes a difference.
- Two-year program
- Three 8-month rotations
- Guaranteed ongoing employment at the end of the program
- Starting salary of above $80,000 per annum plus 17% superannuation (total package of ~$100,000)
- Graduates from all universities eligible to apply
Your tailored rotations across technology domains and teams will give you a fantastic platform to accelerate your career.
The program will consist of
- Rotations that are tailored to your skills, knowledge and career goals
- A dedicated senior supervisor and program coordinator
- A structured mentorship program pairing you with experienced industry professionals
- Experiences that leverage the breadth and depth of our different technology teams
What do we look for in our graduates?
- Curiosity and ability to adapt skills to different situations
- Excellent communication skills and willingness to collaborate in a team
- Passion for the University’s mission and purpose
Streams (Your new team!)
Application Development
The various application management and development teams provide expert advice, effective design, implementation, support and continuous improvement of the University's enterprise applications, platforms and systems. The teams provide enterprise-wide services across Digital Products, ServiceNow Solutions, Smart Campus, Finance, HR and Payroll Systems, Integration and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Product Innovation and GenAI.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity services are delivered across several areas:
- Operations: detection of threats and anomalies, cyber incident response, threat hunting and adversary simulation, application security, vulnerability management, automation and cyber engineering;
- Advisory: providing mitigation advice to IT projects throughout the University;
- Governance, risk and compliance: managing the cyber governance and compliance requirements and University’s cyber risk profile; and
- Engagement: promoting an engaged cyber-aware culture and promoting good cyber practices within the University community.
Platform Engineering
The Technology Management and Research Compute Services teams manage the University's enterprise and research computing infrastructure. They provide essential services including:
- CPU and GPU systems for complex data analysis and AI applications
- Cloud computing environments
- Secure research environments for sensitive data
- Research data storage and management
- Virtualization, data protection, and network services
- Identity services and database management
- High-performance computing systems
These teams offer expert advice and consulting to support researchers, application teams, and the broader University community. Their goal is to accelerate discovery, foster innovation, and deliver core technology services that enable cutting-edge research and efficient operations across the institution.
Programs and Projects
The team work closely with Chancellery, Faculty and COO-P colleagues across Teaching, Learning and Research to deliver project and change outcomes across the organisation.
We collaborate with business product groups to identify the problems we need to solve and the opportunities we need to explore to develop a technology roadmap. We then establish project teams comprising specialists such as Project Managers, Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Project Coordinators and others to deliver the initiatives identified in the roadmap. We deliver using varying project management frameworks including agile, hybrid and traditional waterfall with a focus on positive outcomes for our stakeholders. We also collaborate closely with operational support teams to ensure ongoing maintenance and uplift of new technology solutions.
Key Dates
Applications Open: Early July
Applications Close: Early August