Enterprise Architect

GHD Group; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangements

Global organization

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

GHD invites an experienced Enterprise Architect to shape how our technology landscape evolves to enable strategy, future operating models, AI-enabled ways of working, scalable platforms, and integrated data. This leadership role bridges strategy and delivery across IT, translating ambitions into practical direction and roadmaps.

You will lead architecture governance, influence major investments, and establish principles that balance innovation with risk.

Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, business architecture, technology strategy, or related senior roles.
• Proven ability to collaborate with executive and senior leadership stakeholders.
• Experience developing enterprise technology strategies, capability roadmaps, and investment recommendations.
• Experience operating within complex, global, and matrixed organizations; preference for professional services or consulting contexts.
• Strong understanding of how technology enables business strategy, operating model evolution, and organizational transformation.
• Broad knowledge across enterprise applications, cloud technologies, data platforms, integration, security, AI, and digital capabilities.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain GHD’s future-state enterprise architecture and translate strategy into technology direction.
• Develop capability roadmaps and transition pathways aligned with business priorities.
• Influence major technology investments and roadmap decisions before delivery.
• Provide architectural input into strategic programs and transformation initiatives.
• Establish architecture principles and standards to guide enterprise decisions across IT portfolios.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Technology Strategy

Roadmaps

Executive Stakeholder Collaboration

AI & Data Enablement

Cloud Technologies

Education

Degree in Information Technology / Information Systems / Engineering / Business

Tools

Cloud platforms

Data platforms

AI capabilities

Job description

GHD has a new and exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Architect.This leadership roleis accountable for defining how GHD’s technology landscape must evolve to enable enterprise strategy, future operating models, AI-enabled ways of working, scalable platforms, integrated data, and consistent enterprise outcomes.

Who are we looking for?

This role serves as the architectural bridge between strategy and execution, translating enterprise ambitions into practical technology direction, capability roadmaps, sequenced investment priorities, and enterprise architecture guardrails. Working across all of IT, the role helps ensure current decisions create the capabilities GHD will need in the future. The role is future-first in orientation, focused on where GHD is going, what becomes possible through technology, and how enterprise architecture can enable better business outcomes.

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

• Enterprise Strategy & Future-State Architecture
  • Define and maintain GHD’s future-state enterprise architecture.
  • Translate enterprise strategy and operating model evolution into technology direction, capability roadmaps, and transition pathways.
  • Identify capability gaps, dependencies, and opportunities required to support future business outcomes.
  • Develop and communicate a clear architectural vision for a more technology-enabled, data-driven, and AI-enabled enterprise.
    
• Technology Direction & Innovation
  • Monitor emerging technologies, AI capabilities, integration approaches, and industry trends.
  • Assess their relevance, maturity, and potential value to GHD.
  • Identify opportunities to improve how work is performed, delivered, and scaled across the enterprise.
  • Challenge current assumptions and present credible alternative approaches when appropriate.
    
• Investment & Roadmap Alignment
  • Influence major technology investments and roadmap decisions before delivery commitments are made.
  • Connect business priorities to technology capability requirements and investment choices.
  • Provide architectural input into strategic programs, business cases, and transformation initiatives.
  • Help leadership understand trade-offs, sequencing considerations, risks, and future implications of key decisions.
    
• Establish practical architecture principles, standards, and reference patterns that guide enterprise decision-making.
• Promote architectural consistency across all IT portfolios and groups.
• Create lightweight, reusable guidance that enables teams to move faster with confidence while reducing duplication and complexity.
• Ensure architecture direction balances innovation, risk, supportability, and long-term sustainability.
  
• Act as the enterprise architectural voice within strategic planning, prioritization, and transformation discussions.
• Build trusted relationships with senior technology leaders across GHD.
• Lead the Enterprise Architecture capability and provide direction to the Senior Enterprise Architect – Portfolio & Standards.
• Sponsor the future assessment and classification of architect roles across IS&T.

What you will bring to the team:

• Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, business architecture, technology strategy, digital transformation, or related senior roles.
• Demonstrated experience working with executive and senior leadership stakeholders.
• Experience developing enterprise technology strategies, capability roadmaps, and investment recommendations.
• Experience operating within complex, global, and matrixed organizations.
• Experience within professional services, engineering, consulting, or similarly complex knowledge-based organizations desirable.
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise architecture strategies, future-state architectures, and technology roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of how technology enables business strategy, operating model evolution, and organizational transformation.
• Broad knowledge across enterprise applications, cloud technologies, data platforms, integration, security, AI, and digital capabilities.
• Ability to translate complex technology concepts into clear business options, recommendations, and decisions.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to balance long‑term strategic thinking with practical delivery realities.
• Experience navigating ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities.
• Builds trust through collaboration, enterprise perspective, and sound judgment rather than authority alone.

GHD is an equal opportunity employer, and we want everyone to be able to fully participate in our recruitment process. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all identities.

GHD embraces hybrid work arrangements to create a work environment focused on well‑being, flexibility, and productivity where our people can thrive.

We respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.

Come together and make a meaningful impact.

We bring our people together to create something bigger and solve some of the world's most complex problems. Come and experience the power of commitment and see strategy and ideas come to life when you join GHD.

Let's drive real change.

Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.

That’s why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.

See where your commitment could take you.
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Who we are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee‑owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.