Our business is growing, and so is our team. We’re looking for an experienced System Administrator who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is a self-starter and driven by high quality outcomes.
The Role You Could Play
The System Administrator – People Applications is responsible for the day-to-day administration, configuration, and governance of Mecca’s workforce and HR technology platforms — including UKG, Workday, HR3 and Donesafe. This role ensures application stability, data integrity, and secure access management while providing responsive support to the People and Culture team. The System Administrator will collaborate closely with application vendors, internal IT teams, and business stakeholders to maintain operational excellence and enable continuous improvement through effective monitoring and process control.
The People System Administrator is a hands-on technical role, sitting between application support and systems engineering, ensuring the applications’ environment remains stable, secure, and optimised for Mecca’s evolving business needs.
The main responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Administer, configure, and maintain UKG, Workday, HR3, and Donesafe in accordance with business requirements and IT standards.
- Manage user roles, access control, and permissions to ensure compliance with security and governance frameworks.
- Monitor system performance, integrations, and data flows, proactively addressing issues or exceptions.
- Support system upgrades, patches, and release cycles including testing coordination and change documentation.
- Collaborate with HR, Payroll, and WHS teams to ensure applications support operational needs and compliance requirements.
- Provide Level 2 and Level 3 application support — troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and escalation to vendors when required.
- Maintain accurate documentation, configuration records, and support guides.
- Collaborate with Functional Analysts, Integration Engineers, Business Process Owners and Data Analytics team to ensure reliable operation and change control.
- Ensure that relevant stakeholders are informed during the incident management process.
- Collaborate with integration teams on integration issues/dependencies.
- Ensure the application is sustainable and recoverable for users.
- Continuously identify and recommend improvements to our systems, processes and procedures to improve reliability and performance.
What You Will Bring
We’re looking for a stakeholder-focused team player who is supportive, collaborative and known as the go-to expert for their application. You’ll be comfortable managing immediate priorities while also contributing to longer-term strategic planning, helping to define work based on business impact. Calm and resourceful in a crisis, you can lead others, build consensus and bring together the right people and information to make informed decisions. You communicate clearly and responsibly, work effectively across distributed groups, and actively support the development and technical growth of your peers.
You will also have:
- 2–3 years’ experience in system administration or application support within HR, Payroll, or Workforce Management systems.
- Hands-on experience with one or more People systems (e.g., UKG, Workday, HR3, Donesafe or equivalent).
- Experience in user and access management, including security roles, permissions, and governance controls.
- Ability to configure and maintain SaaS applications, including system settings, workflows, scheduling rules, templates, patches, releases, and environment management.
- Strong capability in monitoring system performance, integrations, and scheduled jobs, including Level 2/3 troubleshooting, log analysis, and root cause investigation.
- Practical understanding of data integrity, integration flows, and change management processes.
- Ability to identify integration failures and collaborate effectively with integration engineers and vendors.
- Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and documentation skills.
Your Life At MECCA
Whilst we are singularly focused on our #CustomerFirst mantra, we know that wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team that is guided by our MECCA values and motivated each and every day to be solutions focused, innovative, collaborative and adaptable, and have a bit of fun along the way!
Some of our other team member benefits include:
- Professional development programs and first-class digitised learning offering
- Health and well-being initiatives
- Reward and recognition programs
- Access to bonus and incentive programs
- Generous discount to spoil yourselves and your immediate family, as well as a generous product allowance, subject to company policy
Benefits are subject to company policy, as updated from time to time.
There are also so many other ways in which you’ll be made to feel part of the MECCA story as we love to celebrate, surprise and delight our team along the way. To learn more about life at MECCA Brands, follow us on LinkedIn at MECCA Brands or @lifeatmecca and for all current opportunities, visit www.mecca.com.au/careers
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What We Do
Since our very first day in 1997, our purpose has been to enable our customers to feel and look their best by offering them the world’s best line-up of beauty and skin-care brands (+ more), coupled with exceptional service. Fast forward to today, and we have over 5,000 MECCA team members across 100+ retail stores throughout Australia and New Zealand, a rapidly growing online business, two Distribution Centres, and a bustling Support Centre in the heart of Melbourne working to deliver on our purpose every single day.
Our ongoing growth is fuelled by opening new stores and reaching new customers, launching new products, and harnessing the latest technology to constantly innovate and evolve our concepts, experiences, and service offerings. Whether you join MECCA in one of our Retail stores, our Support Centre or our Distribution Centre (DC), you will be an integral part of the MECCA family.
Our Retail Store teams are known for their energy, passion and expertise; bringing MECCA to life and helping us deliver on our purpose across four unique concepts – MECCA Cosmetica, MECCA Maxima, MECCA and our online stores (mecca.com.au and meccabeauty.co.nz).
Working in our Support Centre will give you the opportunity to be part of high-impact, cross-functional projects, where you will get to immerse yourself in cutting-edge technologies and market-leading innovations. Not only do we work with over 150 of the best global beauty brands, we also develop, produce and distribute MECCA’s very own signature line of products. From supply chain to digital design, from software development to strategy, and everything in between, we are looking for diverse people from all backgrounds to continually challenge our way of thinking.
Last but certainly not least, our rapidly expanding DC teams are the backbone of our operations and are key to the delivery of a seamless customer experience through online fulfillment and ensuring our stores have the right products at the right time.







