We are excited to introduce an exceptional prospect for an experienced and highly influential Chief Architect to join Downer's Group Technology team.
This is a pivotal technology leadership role suited to a strategic and hands-on architecture professional who thrives in complex enterprise environment and is passionate about shaping technology direction at scale. As the most senior technical design authority across Downer, you will play a critical role in defining and guiding the future-state architecture that enables the organisation's transformation, growth and operational excellence.
Reporting to the General Manager, Strategy & Enablement, the Chief Architect is accountable for architecture decisions that influence the entire technology estate including Cloud & Networks, Apps & ERP, Data, AI & Integration, Cyber Security, and Business Unit technology environments. You will provide Group-wide architectural leadership, establish standards and governance, and ensure technology investments align with business outcomes, risk management and long-term strategic objectives.
Working closely with technology leaders, architects, business stakeholders, vendors and strategic partners, you will lead the development of a federated architecture model that balances governance with agility while enabling innovation across the Group.
This is a unique opportunity to drive technology strategy and architecture at enterprise scale while influencing some of the organisation's most significant investment,



transformation and capability-building decisions.
About the Role
In this role you will:

- Serve as Downer's most senior technical design authority, providing Group-wide architecture leadership and accountability across the technology estate.
- Personally author target-state reference architectures for the organisation's most complex and strategically important domains, including cloud and hosting, integration platforms and enterprise data capability.
- Establish and maintain architecture standards, patterns and principles that guide technology decision-making across the Group.
- Lead and govern a federated architecture operating model spanning Cloud & Networks, Apps & ERP, Data, AI & Integration, Cyber Security and Business Unit architecture teams.
- Chair the Architecture Review Board and provide architectural oversight for strategic initiatives, major programs and technology investments.
- Provide architecture due diligence and design leadership for significant platform, vendor, consolidation, transformation and M&A; initiatives.
- Drive consistency, alignment and architecture governance across a complex and diverse technology landscape.
- Act as the escalation point for the organisation's most complex architectural challenges and technology decisions.
- Guide and mentor architects across the business, fostering capability uplift and a culture of engineering excellence.
- Lead architecture direction supporting technology insourcing,

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📌 Chief Architect (Melbourne)
🏢 Downer Edi
📍 Melbourne