Enterprise Architect (Brisbane, Australia)

UST Global; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Novated Car Lease

Access to UST Perks (Reward Gateway)

Job summary

UST is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Brisbane, Australia, to maximise value from information and technology. The role spans application, information, integration, security and technology layers, aligning architecture with business strategy.

Responsibilities include developing architecture directions, advising on architecture options, and guiding investment cases. The role emphasizes collaboration, governance, risk management, and fostering innovation across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline.
• Extensive experience in designing, constructing, and integrating solution sets.
• Strong understanding of architectural layers (Application, Technology, Information, Integration, Security).
• Experience developing and maintaining one or more layers of an enterprise architecture.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills with creativity and ambiguity.
• Superior written and verbal communication and facilitation skills.
• Ability to understand stakeholder needs, manage expectations and relationships.
• Ability to lead, coach, motivate and mentor others in architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain architecture directions and approved positions to guide technology use.
• Provide advisory on technology architecture and support investment cases and implementations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and balance client needs with organisational strategy.
• Promote innovation by monitoring trends and testing new approaches.
• Manage relationships and communicate with senior stakeholders to ensure policy alignment.
• Perform risk management as part of enterprise risk guidelines.

Skills

Solution design & integration

Architectural layers understanding

Enterprise architecture development

Problem solving & analytical thinking

Communication & facilitation

Stakeholder management

Leadership & mentoring

Hybrid/colleague collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Tools

LeanIX

ArchiMate

Job description

Enterprise Architect (Brisbane, Australia)

The purpose of the Enterprise Architect is to ensure that the client maximises the value gained from the use of information and technology. This will be achieved by ensuring that the technology architecture is defined, governed, and maintained, innovation opportunities are explored, and people are provided with advice and education in the use of the technology architecture.

This role spans the application, information, integration, security and technology architectural layers, placing architectural elements in business context and may focus on one or more specific business or technology areas as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain architecture directions - approved, published positions about how ART plans to use technology to deliver its Strategy.
• Architecture Directions include, but are not limited to:
  • Technology and Delivery Division Plan and Architecture Principles, which set out the broad directions on how a particular aspect of enterprise architecture will be managed.
  • Current and Future IT Landscapes, which outline the architectural direction and investment status for the funds’ information assets.
  • Transition IT Landscapes and associated Roadmaps, which describe how a subset of architecture elements are expected to change over time.
  • Architecture standards, patterns, and preferred technologies, which ensure common requirements are addressed in a consistent way.
• Provide advice and guidance about the technology architecture:
  • Take responsibility for understanding requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
  • Identify, evaluate and recommend options, and support the development of investment cases and implementation as required.
  • Collaborate with, and facilitate stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal assignments
  • Seek to balance client needs with the broader needs of the organisation, ensuring that proposed solutions align with the target-state architecture, or the consequences of mis‑alignment are properly understood.
• Promote innovation:
  • Actively monitor and seek opportunities from new ways of working, industry trends, emerging capabilities and technologies to advance the organisation.
  • Lead or contribute to activities to test and learn from new ways of working or new technologies.
  • Clearly articulate the potential costs and benefits, and risks and needed controls for proposed changes.
  • Encourage and motivate colleagues to share creative ideas and learn from failures.
• Manage key relationships:
  • Identify the communications needs of each assigned stakeholder group and implement specific tasks to address these needs.
  • Have open and honest discussions with stakeholders.
  • Negotiate with senior stakeholders to ensure that organisational policy and strategies are adhered to.
  • Provide informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.
• Perform risk management responsibilities in line with enterprise risk management guidelines.
• Any other duties as directed.

Required Skills and Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related discipline, or significant equivalent work experience.
• Extensive experience in designing, constructing, and integrating solution.
• Strong understanding of the architectural layer intended to be the focus area of the assignment, e.g. Application, Technology, Information, Integration or Security.
• Experience in developing and maintaining one or more layers of an enterprise architecture.
• Demonstrated strong problem-solving and analytical skills, using creativity, and dealing with abstract concepts and ambiguity.
• Demonstrated superior written and verbal communication and facilitation skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrated ability to understand stakeholder needs, manage expectations, and maintain positive relationships.
• Ability to lead, coach, motivate and mentor others in the use, development and maintenance of the architecture.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Formal qualifications or certification in Enterprise Architecture or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge of the Financial Services industry.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, processes, and methods and their practical application to deliver value.
• Ability to assess a portfolio of investment cases to propose conceptual solutions, coordinate order-of-magnitude estimates and identify required enabling technology, synergies, dependencies, constraints.
• Ability to assess emerging technology and determine potential value, applicability, and how it could be introduced into the organisation.
• Demonstrated understanding of governance structures and their application to architecture and the broader governance of information technology.
• Skills in the use of LeanIX and Archimate notation.
• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements.
• Health insurance.
• Novated Car Lease.
• Access to UST Perks (Reward Gateway), which offers discounts across major retailers.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements.
• Health insurance.
• Novated Car Lease.
• Access to UST Perks (Reward Gateway), which offers discounts across major retailers.

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