Job Description
We are seeking a senior Account-Based Enterprise Architect to partner with strategic Energy & Utilities clients in Victoria. This role sits at the intersection of business strategy, technology architecture, and delivery execution, supporting long-term account growth and transformation outcomes. You will work alongside Account Executives, consulting leaders, and client executives to shape enterprise-wide roadmaps that stand up to Board, regulator, and operational scrutiny.
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The role requires a strong consulting mindset: structured problem solving, executive communication and presentation excellence, cultural awareness, and deep organisational change management acumen—combined with credible hands-on enterprise architecture experience.
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Victoria's utilities landscape combines regulated infrastructure with competitive market and retail dynamics. Architects must navigate complexity across customer platforms, market systems, and operational environments.
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What You Will Do
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Act as the trusted enterprise architecture advisorn
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Serve as the senior architecture authority for one or more strategic utility accounts.
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Partner with client executives (CIO, CTO, COO, Heads of
Digital/Technology)
to align business strategy, operating models, and technology architecture.
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Translate business and regulatory drivers into coherent enterprise, domain, and solution architectures.
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Lead with a consulting mindsetn
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Apply structured problem solving to diagnose complex enterprise challenges and prioritise value-driven architecture decisions.
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Facilitate executive workshops and architecture vision sessions to align stakeholders on future-state outcomes and trade-offs.
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Develop executive-ready artefacts: architecture visions, roadmaps, investment cases, and option assessments.
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Demonstrate executive gravitas and cultural awareness when engaging Boards, regulators, and senior operational leaders.
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Bring strong organisational change management (OCM) awareness—understanding how architecture decisions impact people, process, and operations.
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Operate fluently within the Australian regulatory context (AER, AEMO, AEMC, state departments and relevant regulators), and Essential Services Commission (Victoria).
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Shape and govern transformation roadmapsn
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Define current-state and target-state architectures across IT, OT, data, cloud, security, and integration domains.
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Shape multi-year transformation roadmaps aligned to capital programs, regulatory cycles, and delivery capacity.
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Provide architecture governance across programs and vendors to ensure coherence, sustainability, and risk management.
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VIC-specific prioritiesn
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Architectures spanning regulated networks and market-facing (retail, customer, billing) platforms.
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Data, analytics, and AI architectures enabling customer insight, flexibility, and market responsiveness.
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Integration and platform strategies supporting multi-vendor, market-driven ecosystems.
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Enable deal success and delivery confidencen
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Support major pursuits by shaping architecture-led value propositions and solution strategies.
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Partner with delivery teams to ensure architectural intent is realised through implementation.
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Act as a bridge between strategy, sales, and delivery—ensuring credibility from pitch through execution.
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What We Are Looking For
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Experience & background
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12+ years' experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or consulting roles within complex organisations.
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Strong experience in the Energy & Utilities sector in Australia (networks, water, generation, retail, or government-owned enterprises).
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Proven experience engaging at C-suite and senior executive level.
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Consulting mindset & executive presence
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Structured, hypothesis-led problem solver comfortable with ambiguity and complexity.
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Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, including executive workshops and Board-level presentations.
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Executive gravitas: credible, calm, and trusted by senior stakeholders.
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Robust cultural awareness and ability to adapt style across diverse client and community environments.
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Solid understanding of organisational change and how architecture decisions enable or hinder adoption.
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Technical & architectural capability
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Strong grounding in enterprise architecture frameworks and practices (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent).
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Experience across digital platforms, ERP (SAP), cloud, data & analytics, integration, and security.
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Understanding of IT/OT convergence and cyber considerations in critical infrastructure environments.
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