The Opportunity:Are you a visionary Enterprise Architect passionate about leveraging technology to drive educational excellence and institutional innovation? We are partnering with a leading Melbourne university to find an experienced Enterprise Architect to join their team.

This pivotal role will see you shape the technological future of a prominent educational institution. You will be instrumental in bridging the gap between business strategy and technology execution, guiding the evolution of their diverse application, data, and infrastructure portfolios to support an agile, student-centric, and research-intensive environment. If you thrive on strategic thinking and architecting large-scale solutions within a meaningful sector, this could be your next significant career move.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning & Roadmap Development: Develop and maintain the university's enterprise-wide technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with their overarching academic and business strategies. Identify emerging technologies and assess their potential impact and value.

Architectural Leadership & Governance: Define, promote, and govern architectural principles, standards, patterns, and best practices across the institution. Ensure architectural consistency, security, and scalability in all major technology initiatives.

Solution & Domain Guidance: Provide high-level architectural oversight and guidance to program and solution architects, development teams, and project managers across various domains (e.g., Student Management Systems, Research Systems, Corporate Systems, Learning & Teaching platforms).

Application & Data Rationalization: Lead efforts to rationalize the application portfolio, identifying opportunities for consolidation, modernization, and retirement of redundant or inefficient systems. Design robust data architectures to ensure data integrity, accessibility, and a 'single source of truth' for critical institutional data.

Cloud Strategy & Adoption: Drive the university's cloud adoption strategy, architecting secure and scalable cloud solutions that leverage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models to optimize cost, agility, and performance.

Integration Architecture: Define strategies and patterns for seamless integration between disparate systems (e.g., SMS, LMS, Finance, HR, CRM), ensuring efficient data flow and a cohesive digital ecosystem.

Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate extensively with senior academic leaders, executive teams, business units, and IT departments to understand needs, build consensus, and communicate complex architectural concepts effectively.

Risk Management: Identify and mitigate architectural risks, technical debt, and ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements (e.g., privacy, data security).

Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience within the Higher Education or Public Sector highly regarded
• Demonstrated expertise in developing and implementing enterprise-level architectural strategies and roadmaps.
• Deep knowledge of various architectural domains: Business, Application, Data, Technology, and Security architecture.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and build strong relationships.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, capable of tackling complex, ambiguous challenges.

Interested to learn more?

Please hit APPLY to submit a copy of your updated CV, or reach out to Aleks at [email protected] with a copy of your resume, to discuss the role in more detail.

Don't tick all the boxes but believe this could be the next step in your career?
Great! Please apply and we look forward to seeing your resume. We don't expect you to tick every box, as the next step in your career should also provide you with an opportunity to learn new skills too!

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.