Job Description
LGT Wealth Management was formed around a clear and uncompromising vision – to bring global best practice in building institutional quality investment portfolios to Australian clients.
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With a shared passion for building an uncompromised business – we created something new from the ground up.A chance to leave behind the things that weren't working, while enhancing the things that were.Our authentic and personalised client-first commitment.Our entrepreneurial spirit.Our focus in best-in-class advice.And our intimate understanding of the Australian private wealth landscape.
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In **** we became a part of the LGT Group, who shared our entrepreneurial spirit, long-term approach and private-ownership model.Today, with the global expertise, stability, and capability of LGT behind us, we can work without being reliant on markets or margins, with a singular focus on giving our clients the advice and deep expertise they need for generations to come.
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We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to join our Technology team on a full-time permanent basis.
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Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will shape and maintain LGT Wealth Management Australia's enterprise technology architecture so it supports business strategy, operating priorities and long-term change. You will define target-state architecture and transition roadmaps across business capabilities, applications, software, data, integration, security, cloud and infrastructure, including how the core wealth platform and wider ecosystem evolve together.
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Your responsibilities
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Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, target states and transition roadmaps aligned with business strategy direction.
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Maintain decision-useful views of business capabilities, applications, technologies, information domains, integrations and critical service dependencies.
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Assess the current technology landscape and drive simplification, modernisation, reuse and retirement, making duplication, lifecycle risk and architectural debt visible.
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Translate strategic priorities into a rolling enterprise technology roadmap and evidence-based recommendations on build, buy, partner, reuse and retire decisions.
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Engage from ideation and discovery to identify cross-initiative dependencies, constraints and transition impacts before material delivery commitments are made.
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Provide proportionate architecture assurance for material initiatives and facilitate architecture reviews, decisions and time-bound exceptions through to closure.
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Set enterprise guardrails and reusable patterns across modular software, data, APIs, events, integration, identity, cloud, infrastructure, security, resilience and observability.
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Partner with the wider technology team to support their ways of working, recognising current practical engineering standards and paved-road delivery patterns to support your plans.
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Maintain the technology landscape covering the core wealth management platform and enterprise systems to ensure clear boundaries with client channels, data, integration, automation, Group and third-party platforms.
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Partner with data, security, risk, service and business owners so architecture decisions address information governance, privacy, regulatory obligations, operational viability and business continuity.
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Provide enterprise architecture assessments to support portfolio prioritisation and investment planning, evaluating strategic alignment, reuse opportunities, total cost of ownership, lifecycle position, and architecture-related concentration, exit and operational risks.
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Build effective relationships with Australian, APAC and LGT Group stakeholders to maximise reuse while ensuring local regulatory, market and operational requirements are explicit.
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Use incidents, problems, audit findings, vendor direction and delivery lessons to improve target architectures, standards and investment priorities.
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Act as a trusted adviser to business and technology stakeholders, translating business strategy into transparent architectural implications and enabling well-informed decisions by articulating options, trade-offs, risks and recommendations.
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Your skills, experience and qualifications
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Substantial enterprise architecture experience, including shaping technology strategy, target states and transition roadmaps in a complex, regulated or financial-services environment.
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Broad architecture capability across business, application, software, data, integration, security, cloud and infrastructure, with sufficient technical depth to challenge designs and guide trade-offs.
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Experience with a core banking or wealth management platform, including capability boundaries, application and integration architecture, data, release lifecycle and operational support.
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Prior hands-on software engineering experience, with proficiency in at least one modern general-purpose programming language and the technical depth to review designs, challenge implementation choices and engage credibly with engineers.
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Technical fluency across modern application architecture, APIs and event-driven integration,



cloud and SaaS platforms, data architecture, identity and access management, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, resilience and secure software delivery will be highly regarded.
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Experience establishing pragmatic architecture governance, design assurance, decision records and exception processes without creating heavyweight delivery gates.
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Demonstrated ability to align technology decisions with business strategy, client outcomes, regulatory obligations and operational priorities.
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Experience developing architecture artefacts such as capability maps, application and technology portfolios, reference architectures and lifecycle plans.
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Commercial judgement across build-versus-buy decisions, vendors, licensing, total cost of ownership, concentration risk and exit strategies.
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Strong analytical skills and the ability to make sound, evidence-based recommendations in ambiguity.
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Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex choices and influence executives, risk stakeholders and delivery teams.
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Experience working across local, regional or global technology operating models, including Group, outsourced and vendor-managed services, would be highly regarded.
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Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent professional experience; practical use of architecture methods such as TOGAF and relevant security or cloud certifications would be advantageous.
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Connects business intent, client outcomes and technology choices, making clear recommendations and understanding wider consequences.
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Creates direction and coherence across domains while enabling accountable teams to own detailed design, engineering and delivery.
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Engages credibly with engineers and specialists, challenges assumptions and drives practical decisions through to implementation.
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Applies proportionate governance, records decisions and exceptions, and manages risk without slowing delivery unnecessarily.
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Communicates clearly, builds trusted relationships across organisational boundaries and navigates differing views constructively.
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Takes ownership, learns from delivery and operational feedback, and continually improves the architecture practice.
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LGT Wealth Management is committed to the ongoing development of their employees. Your development will be managed and tailored to your role and future career path.
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LGT Wealth Management is an equal opportunity employer committed to embracing a diverse and inclusive work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their gender, marital/parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.
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📌 Enterprise Architect (New South Wales)
🏢 LGT Wealth Management
📍 New South Wales