Enterprise Architect

Join us and let’s make a bigger difference together.

Established in 1840, we’re Australia’s first member-owned wellbeing company. Today we have over $1 billion in revenue and provide smart solutions and services to more than 700,000 Australians. We employ over 7000 people and our purpose is to Help People to Thrive.

It’s an exciting time to be joining Australian Unity – we have grown significantly over recent years and are transforming to capitalise on further growth opportunities to help our customers and employees thrive. We operate with commercial principles and with a strong social purpose to create community value. Australian Unity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Our Opportunity:

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for designing and overseeing the long-term business and technology architecture solutions that will affect the broad enterprise landscape. You will develop and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and blueprints in collaboration with business owners and executives in line with the enterprise investment plans and risk appetite. Working closely with domain and solution architects you will assist, guide, and align the use of appropriate organisational capabilities, guardrails, practices, and technologies whilst considering Australian Unity’s overall business aims and outcomes.

Accountabilities include:

• Act as a trusted advisor to drive business adoption and leverage enterprise technology platforms aligned with business domain strategy, goals, objectives, digital capabilities and solutions.
• Lead the long-term (3-5 years) business capability and technology strategy discussions across the enterprise and business domains along with architecture work plans to progress the enterprise architecture.
• Communicate the business and technology architecture vision and roadmap that will deliver business domain goals and objectives.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and adoption of technology solutions that drive business value and enable digital transformation.
• Develop enterprise blueprints describing the organisation approved portfolio of technology platforms and promote reuse.
• Develop and contribute to standards, guardrails and principles pertaining to technology usage and adoption.
• Lead applications simplification and consolidation initiative in the areas of coverage in support of broader enterprise technology simplification strategy
• Align and support the architectural governance processes including the review and approval of new technology initiatives

About You:

To be successful in the role you will be able to demonstrate the following capabilities/experience:

• Advanced degree in computing, computer science, business / information systems or other IT related field
• 10+ years in business and/or technology strategic and operational planning as an Enterprise or Domain Architect advisor. 10+ years in these areas: Business Architecture, Business Capability Assessment, Data / Information Architecture, Technology Architecture, Integration Architecture and Solution Architecture
• Deep experience influencing and managing stakeholders
• Proven experience with customer relationship management platforms such as Salesforce, ServiceNow and Dynamic365.
• Proven experience with business process automation platforms and core business systems supporting Health, Insurances and Wealth & Capital Markets sectors.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, microservices frameworks, and API-enablement platforms such as webMethods.
• The ability to think strategically and create a vision for the future of enterprise architecture in collaboration with the business subject matter experts and other architects.

What’s on Offer:

You will enjoy a range of great employee benefits and rewards including:

• Competitive salary + bonus program
• Enjoy additional yearly Well-Being and Community leave days
• 14-week paid parental leave, with equal benefit for both parents PLUS our Bump to Baby
• Employee Referral Program
• Employee Assistance Program – support and assistance for you and your partner at those times in life when you need it most
• Maxxia Rewards - a great range of discounts and benefits at selected retail outlets, department stores, attractions, travel, cinemas, restaurants.
• Discounts across the Australian Unity business including Private Health Insurance, General Insurance + more!
• Available access to LinkedIn Learning courses through our great Learning platform

For further benefits visit: https://www.australianunity.com.au/careers/culture

Australian Unity is an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from all members of the community, including people of Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander descent, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and, mature aged people.