Our client is a well-established and growing organisation in the healthcare space that focuses on the need of patients rather than their condition.

The Domain Architect is a newly created position reporting to the Head of Technology Services and will lead the design, governance, and strategic planning of infrastructure, network, and hosting architectures that support scalable, secure, and interoperable healthcare systems.

This role will also contributes to application roadmaps across clinical, digital, and enterprise platforms, ensuring alignment with organizational and clinical strategies.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the architecture of the organisation in an environment where infrastructure will drive the changes ahead.

Key Responsibilities will include

• Develop a deep understanding of the business strategy, operating model, focusing initially on Infrastructure and data centre strategy
• Create target-state architectural artifacts, including solution options and architecture design documentation.
• Assess and communicate the impacts, trade-offs, risks, costs, benefits, and opportunities of proposed IT solutions to relevant IT managers or teams.
• Promote architecture standards, patterns, and controls across IT and the broader business.
• Establish processes and controls for discussing and deciding on the use of technologies for new and existing services.
• Focus on infrastructure, networks, and telecommunications architecture. As a starting point and eventually ERP systems, and Digital and Clinical systems

Specifically, initially your focus will be on:

• Design and maintain robust infrastructure architectures including cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• Lead network architecture initiatives to support performant, secure data exchange across clinical and administrative systems.
• Oversee hosting strategies for clinical, digital and enterprise platforms.

Eventually, the focus will shift to developing transition roadmaps and develop transition roadmaps for legacy applications to modern platforms (e.g., cloud-native, AI-enabled toolsets); Align application strategies with enterprise goals and digital health initiatives (e.g., My Health Record, FHIR adoption) and collaboration with clinical and business stakeholders to prioritize application upgrades and integrations.

YOUR background:

• Extensive experience as a domain or solution architect in complex, distributed technology environments
• Strong background in infrastructure, networks, and telecommunications architecture, with the ability to expand into digital, data, and enterprise applications.
• Strategic and Innovative mindset with a strong problem-solving approach
• Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple platforms, projects, and challenges.
• Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both business and IT colleagues.
• Strong stakeholder management and clinical literacy skills for interacting with senior levels of the organization.
• Ability to work independently, negotiate, and influence adherence to agreed patterns.
• Proven track record of involvement in projects from inception to deployment.

Desirable:

• Bachelor degree in IT, Health Informatics or related field
• 5+ years in architecture roles, with experience in private healthcare environments.
• Understanding of Australian healthcare regulations and digital health initiatives.
• Comfortable navigating hybrid environments and federated systems.
• Technical skills in Cloud platforms (Azure & AWS), network design, integration and cyber security
• Passionate about improving patient outcomes through resilient technology foundations.

This is a permanent position paying base of $180k-max $200k plus super and base don the fringes of the Sydney’s CBD – working arrangement is hybrid.

If you are interested, please email your cv to Silvia applying below

Balance Recruitment is committed to equal opportunity employment. We celebrate diversity and encourage people from all sections of our community to apply for this role.

If this role is located in Victoria, this posting was placed on behalf of Balance Consulting Services who will provide all services related to the recruitment of this position (BCS).

Balance Recruitment is committed to equal opportunity employment. We celebrate diversity and encourage people from all sections of the community to apply.