Enterprise Architect

NIB Group; Newcastle; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New starter benefit

50% health insurance discount for e/m

Volunteer leave for nib foundation

Well Program access

Employee share plans

Short-term incentive program

Parental leave 18 weeks

Cultural leave 5 days

Gender affirmation leave

Job summary

nib is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define and govern nib’s architecture across technology, data, applications and business capabilities to support nib’s 2030 ambition. You will lead a team of domain, solution and security architects and work with executive leaders to align investments with strategy.

You will drive target-state architecture, oversee roadmaps, and ensure secure, scalable and compliant delivery across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience influencing senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience leading and developing architects or technical teams.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience establishing architecture governance forums, standards, design assurance processes and exception management.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, modern integration patterns, data architecture and cyber security considerations.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation, technology modernisation and responsible adoption of emerging technologies.
• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the technology reference architecture and target state, and the transition roadmaps that guide investment across the nib Group.
• Run architecture governance forums and set the guardrails within which platform teams make technical decisions.
• Simplify the technology landscape by reducing duplication across platforms, and build reusable foundations such as identity, APIs and data products.
• Shape the Group technology strategy and enterprise roadmap, and provide architecture assessment of business cases and supplier evaluations.
• Set security architecture standards, lead infrastructure and cloud architecture, promote secure-by-design and privacy-by-design.
• Partner with leaders across Digital Platforms & Experiences, Insurance Platforms, Enterprise Platforms, Cloud & Technology Services, Data & AI, and Transformation Office.
• Build and lead a high-performing architecture practice, including recruitment, career pathways and communities of practice.

Skills

Stakeholder influence

Architect leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Architecture governance

Cloud understanding

Data architecture

Cyber security

Emerging tech adoption

Education

Tertiary qualification in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

TOGAF certification

ArchiMate certification

SAFe certification

Zachman certification

Job description

About this role

As the Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for defining, governing and evolving nib’s enterprise architecture so that technology, data, applications and business capabilities are aligned to strategic objectives, simplify the technology landscape and support sustainable growth. This includes developing and maintaining a rolling one to three year technology reference architecture and target state, starting with the target state that supports nib’s 2030 ambition.

The role provides enterprise-wide architectural leadership, guiding technology investment decisions, portfolio planning, transformation initiatives and future-state roadmaps across business, information, application, integration, data, security and technology domains. Working closely with executive leaders, delivery teams and technology stakeholders, the Enterprise Architect establishes architecture standards, architecture decision records, roadmaps and governance practices that enable simplification, innovation, scalability and risk-managed delivery.

The Enterprise Architect plays a critical role in ensuring technology investments maximise business value, improve customer and employee experiences, support responsible use of emerging technologies, and enable nib’s strategic priorities within appropriate risk, privacy, security and regulatory settings.

Reporting to the Group Head of Strategy, Architecture & Transformation, you will lead a team of domain, solution and security architects in the Strategy, Architecture & Transformation Office, part of nib’s Technology & Transformation division.

In this role you will:

• Develop and maintain the technology reference architecture and target state, and the transition roadmaps that guide investment across the nib Group.
• Run architecture governance forums and set the guardrails within which platform teams make technical decisions, including architecture checkpoints in delivery stage gates and validating supplier designs before nib commits to them.
• Simplify the technology landscape by reducing duplication across policy administration, CRM, workflow, pricing, claims, portal and sales funnel platforms, and build reusable foundations such as identity, APIs, data products and agentic AI patterns.
• Shape the Group technology strategy and enterprise roadmap, and provide architecture assessment of business cases, vendor evaluations and sourcing decisions, including mergers, acquisitions and divestments where required.
• Set security architecture standards, lead infrastructure and cloud architecture, promote secure-by-design and privacy-by-design, and set the architecture guardrails for AI and agentic AI.
• Partner with leaders across Digital Platforms & Experiences, Insurance Platforms, Enterprise Platforms, Cloud & Technology Services, Data & AI, Line 1 Technology Risk & Controls and the Transformation Office.
• Build and lead a high-performing architecture practice, including recruitment, career pathways and communities of practice.

About you

You’ll bring extensive Enterprise Architecture experience within complex technology environments, ideally with broad expertise across business, information, application, data, integration, security and technology domains. You’ll have a strong understanding of how these architecture disciplines work together to support business and technology strategy.

You’ll also have demonstrated experience developing enterprise architecture blueprints, transition roadmaps and target-state architectures, helping organisations define their future technology direction and the pathway to get there.

You’ll bring:

• Experience influencing senior business and technology stakeholders and shaping technology investment decisions.
• Experience leading and developing architects or technical teams.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience establishing or operating architecture governance forums, standards, design assurance processes and exception management.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, modern integration patterns, data architecture and cyber security considerations.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise transformation, technology modernisation and responsible adoption of emerging technologies.
• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

Desired:

• TOGAF, ArchiMate, SAFe, Zachman, cloud architecture or equivalent architecture certification.
• Experience within financial services, health insurance, healthcare or other regulated industries, including familiarity with APRA prudential standards such as CPS 230 and CPS 234.
• Experience with large-scale cloud modernisation, enterprise data platforms, AI enablement or complex integration environments.

Don’t tick every box? If this role excites you and you bring relevant experience, we’d still love to hear from you.

Who we are

nib is a leading health insurer and health partner across Australia and New Zealand. Our purpose is simple: helping people enjoy better health by making healthcare more accessible, affordable and connected.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We embrace a flexible working environment and welcome candidates who reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate. We’re committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to be their authentic selves, every day. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people living with disability, veterans, LGBTQIA+ as well as culturally diverse community members to apply for open roles.

We’re committed to creating an accessible recruitment process, if you identify as a person living with disability and require adjustments to our online application, recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, or would like this advertisement in an alternative format, please contact us at [e-mail].

Working at nib

Our hybrid working model offers flexibility to work from home or our purpose-built office Hubs (1-2 days in Hub expected), designed for focus, connection, and collaboration.

Other benefits to support you at work (and play) include:

• New starter benefit to help set up a functional home workspace
• 50% discount on employee health insurance
• Opportunity to give back to the community through paid leave for volunteering through nib foundation
• Access to our nib Well Program and corporate fitness discounts
• Access to employee share plans, short-term incentive program and life and salary continuance insurance benefits
• 18 weeks paid parental leavefor all new parents regardless of carer status
• 5 days paid cultural leave for First Nations peoples
• 4 weeks paid gender affirmation leave for trans, gender diverse and intersex employees

The fine print

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check (including criminal history and bankruptcy check) prior to commencement of employment.

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.