Enterprise Architect

Digital Health Inc; Canberra; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Digital Health Agency is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join the Architecture team in a full-time EL1 role. The position provides strategic architectural leadership to align business and technology investments with priorities and to deliver secure, connected digital health outcomes.

Working across business and technology domains, you will develop roadmaps, principles and standards, advise senior leaders, and influence governance to ensure initiatives are aligned to

Qualifications

• Experience applying enterprise architecture in digital health or regulated environments.
• Proven leadership delivering strategic and operational outcomes.
• Experience providing architecture governance across projects and programs.
• Experience developing enterprise architecture strategies, target-state architectures, roadmaps and transition plans.
• Proven ability to maintain EA artefacts like capability models, architecture principles, standards and governance frameworks.
• Ability to analyse business capabilities, processes, information and technology systems to identify improvement opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic architectural leadership across business and technology domains.
• Develop enterprise architecture roadmaps, capability models, principles and standards.
• Advise senior leaders on alignment of investments with enterprise objectives.
• Drive architecture governance across projects and programs.
• Influence decision-making and promote consistent architectural practices.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Leadership

Architecture governance

Strategic planning

Interoperability

Security compliance

Architecture frameworks

Tools

TOGAF

Job description

About the Agency

The Australian Digital Health Agency is transforming how Australians experience healthcare by enabling people and providers to access the information they need, securely, quickly and in one place. Through national digital services such as My Health Record, Electronic Prescriptions and the 1800Medicare App, we are building a connected health system that gives Australians greater control over their health.

What you will love about this role

The Australian Digital Health Agency is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join the Architecture team in a full-time, ongoing Executive Level 1 (EL1) role. The Enterprise Architect is responsible for providing strategic architectural leadership to ensure the Agency's business and technology investments, initiatives and services align with organisational priorities and support the delivery of secure, connected and effective digital health outcomes. Working across business and technology domains, the role develops enterprise architecture roadmaps, capability models, principles and standards that guide organisational planning, investment decisions and future-state design. The position provides expert advice to senior leaders and stakeholders, helping to ensure strategic initiatives are aligned to enterprise objectives and delivered within a well-defined architectural framework.

The role undertakes analysis of business capabilities, processes, information and technology systems to identify opportunities for improvement, manage architectural risks and support the successful delivery of complex programs and projects. Working closely with business areas, project teams and technical specialists, the Enterprise Architect influences decision‑making, drives architecture governance activities and promotes consistent architectural practices across the Agency. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, the role requires strong stakeholder engagement, communication and leadership skills, with accountability for delivering enterprise architecture outcomes that enable informed decision‑making, support organisational transformation and contribute to better digital health outcomes for Australians.

Skills and experience (Essential criteria)

• Experience applying enterprise architecture practices within digital health, government or other regulated environments, including interoperability, information management, security and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated leadership experience leading teams, managing performance and delivering strategic and operational outcomes in complex environments.
• Experience providing architecture governance and assurance across projects and programs, including reviewing solution designs and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise architecture strategies, target‑state architectures, roadmaps and transition plans that support organisational priorities, investment decisions and business transformation.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining enterprise architecture artefacts, including capability models, architecture principles, standards, reference architectures and governance frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse business capabilities, processes, information and technology systems to identify improvement opportunities, manage architectural risks and support organisational change.

Eligibility

Australian citizenship is mandatory. Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a national police clearance and the required Baseline security clearance, with the ability to attain a higher‑level clearance if needed.

Our benefits

We offer a competitive 15.4% superannuation contribution, salary packaging options, and a Christmas closedown with no leave deduction. Our wellbeing program and EAP support a healthy work–life balance, while flexible work arrangements opportunities, including work from home, give you choice in how, when and where you work. You will enjoy modern collaborative workspaces and generous study support, with financial assistance up to 100% of costs and up to 7.5 hours per week of study leave to employee who are eligible, as per our study assistance guidelines. We also provide a wide range of leave options including parental, cultural, compassionate, emergency response and defence leave. In lieu of reasonable hours worked EL staff is offered also to EL staff however requires recording of hours worked.

Interested to learn more?

Take a look at the attached candidate pack for all the details.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be used to support parts of our recruitment process, such as refining recruitment materials, and transcribing and summarising recorded interviews, however all hiring decisions are made by people, with AI used ethically, responsibly, transparently and in accordance with privacy requirements.