• Role title: Lead Architect
• Role type: Fixed Term 12 months, full time
• Department and location: Office of the CEO / St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
• Role grade: Health Service Manager Level 5
• Salary: $166,678 - $186,448 + super + salary packaging

Better and fairer care. Always.
We are St Vincent's Health Australia, Australia's largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services.

Founded by The Sisters of Charity in 1857, our +30,000 healthcare superheroes operate public and private hospitals, residential aged care, community and virtual care, and outreach programs.

About the role
This significant Lead Architect role places you at the forefront of St Vincent's Health Network Sydney's largest transformation initiative: the Electrical Medical Record (EMR) and Patient Administration System (PAS) Program.

You'll be instrumental in designing the comprehensive technical architecture and overseeing its strategic implementation for the program, making a real difference in transforming the hospital's clinical and administrative health practices.

In this role, you will:

• Report to the EMR Program Director, and work closely with the Technical Lead and their EMR and PAS technical team
• Develop high-level and detailed solution architecture to support EMR and PAS implementation
• Uplift local IT architecture ensuring alignment with EMR and NSW Health technical requirements
• Design integration and interoperability solutions that connect seamlessly with the NSW Health digital ecosystem
• Collaborate closely with SVHA D&T and NSW Health to support scalable, secure, and resilient architectures
• Have a flexible working environment to enjoy, with a 50/50 split of time working at hospital/time working from home

About you
To be successful in this role you will need to combine technical expertise, complex multi-organisation program delivery experience with strong leadership capabilities, effective communication skills and a profound understanding of healthcare to successfully drive the implementation and adoption of the EMR and PAS at SVHNS.

• Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent's Health Australia.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant field and a minimum of 5 years working as an Architect in Information Technology, within a healthcare environment or setting
• Demonstrated experience supporting and implementing large-scale digital health transformation in the context EMR and PAS programs.
• Familiarity with NSW Health systems, governance frameworks, digital health standards, and architecture practices.
• Proven ability to design and deliver solutions spanning infrastructure, integration, and security domains.
• Experience designing systems with HL7, FHIR, and standard integration approaches, including integration of health solutions and technologies spanning applications, end user and clinical devices.
• Experience in designing identity and access management architecture in complex multi tenanted environments.
• A sound understanding of networking, hosting, identity and access and end user computing technologies
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of different experts with multiple deliverables in a large scale environment across multiple locations
• Ability to work on premise at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney Darlinghurst. You will also be required to travel to other sites such as Reserve Road St Leonards as required.
• Strong inter-personal skills with demonstrated success in leading technology rollouts, with demonstratable experience leading a team of technical resources
• Demonstrated experience in project management functions including budget planning and financial management and forecasting, risk and issue management and implementation of governance frameworks to support technical delivery
• A sound understanding of point of care device technologies in a healthcare setting

Why work at St Vincent's?

• Join us on our mission to provide care to all, including the most at-risk people in our community
• Discounted access to many gyms for you and your family with Fitness Passport
• Access to discounted private health insurance with Medibank
• Access to a government salary sacrifice program. Make a proportion of your salary tax-free
• Committed to financial support for educational development, scholarship programs, paid study leave

About the hospital
In this role you will be based at St Vincent's hospital, Darlinghurst.

• A busy inner-city hospital in a beautiful location
• Surrounded by great cafes, galleries and theatres, parks, nightlife, and nearby glorious beaches
• A place of expert clinical care for at-risk people
• Closely partnered with universities & affiliated research institutes, many of which are located on-campus
• Centres of excellence include heart & lung transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, cardiology, cancer care, AIDS/HIV, respiratory medicine, mental health, homeless health, drug & alcohol services, and correctional health

Sponsorship / work rights for Australia
Please note, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. For this role you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or have an Australia visa that grants you the work rights necessary for the role.

Pre-employment checks
Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role-required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.

Equal opportunity
We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

How to apply
Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter highlighting how your interest, skills, and experience align with each of the things listed in the About You section of this job advert.

Respectfully, this role is not open to recruitment agencies.