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The Business and Technology Group is looking for a Technical Architect to fill an EL2 technical role, that reports to the Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO) and guides the development and management of technical and infrastructure solutions.

Under broad direction from the CITO, you will:

Derive Future-State Technology Architecture

• Work with ICT peers to analyse enterprise business context (business strategy and trends), as well as change requirements in other EA viewpoints (such as business, information and solution) to derive the future-state technology architecture. This includes defining the requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise.
• Leads the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement. In addition, leads the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise as well as on the enterprise technology architecture.
• Coaches, mentors and collaborates with technical subject matter experts and peers to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models.
• Drives digital innovation by leveraging innovative technologies and approaches to renovate, extend and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate.
• Defines high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the future and current state, in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.

Analyses and Evaluates Technology

• Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Guides technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes while ensuring nonfunctional requirements are met.
• Helps the enterprise architect define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise technology value.
• Assists with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products.
• Oversees and facilitates the research, evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.
• Identifies the organizational impact (e.g., on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the enterprise technology architecture.
• Understands, advocates and augments the business and IT strategies and effectively communicates the benefits of EA development and service delivery.

Leads and Collaborates to Deliver Business Outcomes

• Leads technology change to deliver business outcomes while also virtually leveraging subject matter experts from any other needed technical area.
• Oversees, or consults on, technology implementation and modification activities (e.g., projects and products), particularly for new or shared infrastructure solutions.
• Consults on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure with the enterprise technology architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the technology architecture to accommodate immediate or future project needs.
• Creates and delivers working, production-ready IT services that can be easily leveraged by agile teams.
• Works closely with the product managers, product owners and ICT peers to enable infrastructure agility, scalability and resilience to support required product needs throughout product life cycles.
• Collaborates with business constituents, other EA team members, project teams and staff in various IT functional areas as needed to fulfill the responsibilities described above.
• Documents necessary for enterprise technology architecture design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection.

To be eligible to apply for this vacancy, you must:

• be an Australian citizen
• undergo any required pre-employment checks, including a police records check
• obtain and maintain a valid Security Clearance if required by the institute
• a probationary period of six (6) months will apply to any new engagement to the APS.

How to apply:

Please submit your application online via the AIHW e-Recruit system. When applying online for the first time, you will need to register and provide a valid email address.

Your application must include:

1. A summary of your relevant skills and experience and explain why you would be the best person for the role. Your response should align with the position summary and selection criteria information above, and must be no more than 750 words.
2. Your current CV and the names of two referees.

Please note, late applications will not be accepted.