Enterprise Architect

• Influence major technology choices across the bank
• Drive innovation and improvement in the delivery of services
• Stakeholder engagement across multiple business and technology domains

ANZ’s purpose is to shape a world where people and communities thrive. Our people are proud to help people achieve incredible things – be it buying their home, building a business or saving for things big or small. ANZ IT bring this purpose to life everyday by driving innovation and building flexible and simplified technology solutions that enhance the way people bank. 

Our architects are up close and personal solving real problems, engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders, from the deep technical to senior executive level and effecting change.

As an Enterprise Architect in our Architecture Centre of Excellence you will have an important role to play in providing technology leadership to address existing and future challenges in the dynamic environment of banking

The role

As Enterprise Architect you will be working with an experienced and passionate team.     As Enterprise Architect you will be instrumental in developing strong working relationships with both business and technology stakeholders and enabling stakeholders to maximise their investments. This is an exciting time of growth for this organisation that is undergoing a whole of technology transformation, development of new strategies and road-maps and where you can truly influence change.

The role of Enterprise Architect will support and maintain architectural direction, standards, road-maps and patterns for all technology. The underpinning focus will be to ensure outstanding value for the organisation and its customers.

You will also act as a thought leader, driving architectural governance across strategic and tactical and project landscapes, contributing to the uplift of the architectural practice. In addition, your role will include assessment of new technologies and the alignment of those technologies to business strategy.

As the successful candidate you will lead, challenge and coordinate architecture activities with stakeholders within domains. Your input will drive the future allocation of IT investment and assist in the transformation of the companies' broader enterprise architecture.

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Developing the enterprise architecture and coordinating all enterprise architecture activities and plans to support the execution enterprise strategy, roadmaps and architecture guardrails
• Assist in aligning business and enterprise initiatives with the enterprise architecture
• Establishing and ensuring adherence to enterprise architecture standards
• Serving as advisor to senior business management on business and information integration strategies
• Ensure that IT products, services and service levels meet current and future enterprise needs.
• Provide high level strategic advice for future investment in IT systems and processes to support business objectives
• Develop technology and architecture standards for the organisation that support the implementation of the technology strategy.
• Support the execution of the architecture road maps and ensure alignment with investment plans

About you:

To be successful in this role you will apply your experience of.

• 10+ years’ strategy and architecture experience in Digital Technology within a medium scale environment.
• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Extensive experience in working with other IT stakeholders including application portfolio managers, program/project managers, solution architects, infrastructure managers, business relationship managers, business analysts, external vendors and others.
• Demonstrated experience consulting and providing advice to C suite technology and business leaders with a proven ability to develop creative and efficient solutions.
• Excellent technical, analytical, and management skills. You should also have strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Defining architectural road maps, and uplifting architecture artefacts to align with industry best practice.
• Experience with large scale enterprise level projects.
• Experience working with enterprise architecture or solution architecture frameworks, mythologies, templates, and tools.
• Experience in architecture governance, IT strategy and capital planning processes.
• An extensive understanding of the Information and Technology industry, as well as emerging technologies.
• Experience in modelling and graphic representations using technology industry frameworks and standards.

About ANZ

We’re reinventing the way we do banking, and our community of collaborative, innovative thinkers who create human centred solutions are helping us get there. We’re responding faster to changing customer requirements, focusing on the things that matter and helping people achieve incredible things – be it buying their home, building a business or saving for things big or small.

We support our people by providing a range of flexible working options so they can work in the way that best suits them. We encourage you to talk to us about your need for flexibility and any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself.

We’ll also offer you the opportunity to develop your career, working in a diverse and inclusive workplace where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated and create a great place to grow, thrive and belong.

Interested in joining us? Click Apply now, or visit www.anz.com/careers to find out more or view other opportunities.

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