About LDK Seniors Living

LDK Seniors Living vision is for every senior Australian to be treated with Love, Decency & Kindness in their ageing journey. Our core values of Love, Decency & Kindness underpin our culture and guide every aspect of everything we do for our residents and our team members. All LDK villages combine the best part of retirement living and aged care to deliver our unique One Move Promise® – our guarantee that once our residents call LDK home, they will never have to move again.

About the role

This is a rare opportunity to combine the strategic focus of a Solution Architect with the operational leadership of a Business Systems Manager. The role will primarily focus on Solution Architecture and to a lesser degree Business Systems Management. We believe the initial allocation would be roughly 80% Solution Architecture and 20% Business Systems Management. There would be two distinct future pathways from this role. We expect that each of these functions will become separate roles as the business and team scale. This should create the opportunity to pursue either pathway at some point in the future.

You will own the future direction of LDK's business applications, enterprise architecture, integration landscape, and data foundations while leading a growing Business Systems function within ICT Operations. You will work across every part of the business including care, village operations, finance, sales, people and culture, data and AI, and project delivery.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both strategic thinking and practical delivery, and who wants to create meaningful outcomes that improve the lives of residents and employees.

The Solution Architect will create and maintain the overarching Enterprise and Solution Architecture frameworks by which all systems and solutions are guided. The role will be heavily involved in the definition of requirements (technical and non-functional) and the acquisition process for new solutions across the organisation. This role will, deliver the business’ technology vision and strategic ambitions through the development and delivery architecture of our future-state technology solutions, our data and integration model and the detailed architecture needed to deliver the technology roadmap.

The role will define and deliver the ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ solutions architecture, the logical data model and high-level requirements and designs for applications and infrastructure solutions. Critical to the role is the development and implementation of our integration model and the development of our solution optioning processes.

A key focus of the role will be the evaluation of all technology options, for each specific business need and the recommendation of alternatives. These options include evaluating all core systems and their current use and designing improvements and integration between systems as well as the possible replacement of systems with better alternatives, where warranted.

Role responsibilities

Technology Strategy & Solution Architecture





- Create and maintain the overarching Enterprise and Solution Architecture frameworks
- Developing LDK's application, integration and data architecture roadmap.
- Designing future-state technology solutions that align to business strategy.
- Leading architecture reviews and providing technical direction to projects and programs.
- Defining architecture standards, principles and governance processes.
- Evaluating emerging technologies and identifying opportunities for innovation.

Data & Integration

- Developing enterprise integration and information management strategies.
- Improving data quality, governance and reporting capabilities.
- Supporting future AI, analytics and automation initiatives.
- Designing solutions that enable trusted, connected and accessible information across the organisation.

Cyber Security

- Creating a Cyber Security Architecture for the organisation.
- Developing and contributing to strengthening of the corporate cyber security posture and general organisational awareness.
- Furthering and advancing cyber security measures with key SaaS and Solution Partners.
- Creating the standards and specifications for security for solutions.
- Reviewing new solutions for security maturity and capabilities.

Business Systems Management

- Leading and continuously improving LDK's enterprise business systems portfolio.
- Establishing governance frameworks and lifecycle management practices.
- Driving optimisation, standardisation and adoption of business-critical applications.
- Ensuring systems are reliable, resilient, scalable, secure and aligned to operational requirements.
- Managing system owners, business analysts and application specialists.
- Managing strategic vendor and partner relationships.

Governance & Vendor Management

- Design and implement solution optioning and vendor selection frameworks.
- Supporting procurement, solution evaluations and business case development.
- Contributing to risk management, cyber security and compliance initiatives.
- Establish reliability metrics and measurement processes around systems and tools.
- Establish and develop strong vendor relationships and avenues for product enhancements.
- Establishing escalation processes and pathways.

Position Accountabilities

- Define the ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ solutions architecture and logical data model.
- Define and implement data governance and quality frameworks.
- Develop high level requirements and cost-efficient designs for applications and infrastructure solutions.
- Lead and conduct workshops and meetings to develop an architectural roadmap and solutions.
- Provide architectural subject matter expertise and coach project teams to achieve outcomes.




- Owner of Business Systems Management and the reporting line of System Owners (about 20%).

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

- Degree in Technology, Information Systems or a related field.
- Significant experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Business Systems Management or similar technology leadership roles.(2-5 Years)
- Proven experience developing technology roadmaps and future-state architecture.
- Strong understanding of SaaS platforms, enterprise applications, integrations and cloud environments.
- Experience leading business and technical stakeholders through organisational and digital change.
- Strong commercial acumen, analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to effectively engage with senior executives, operational leaders and external vendors.

Highly Regarded

- TOGAF, Azure, ITIL or similar architecture and technology certifications.
- Experience within healthcare, aged care, retirement living or other regulated industries(2-5 Years)
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, GCP and modern cloud ecosystems.
- Knowledge of data governance, analytics and integration platforms.
- Experience with contemporary AI technologies, including automation, agents, large language models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), model orchestration and enterprise AI solutions.

Our Employee Value Proposition

LDK villages have established a reputation of being ‘truly happy places’ for residents. We know that this can only be achieved if our team feel connected, respected and valued. When you join LDK, you will be joining a for-purpose, values-led, people-first organisation that empowers and invests in our employees to develop, nurture and grow individual professional capability. You will work in a friendly, open and welcoming environment.

Benefits

- Market-competitive salary package
- Purchased leave options, giving you the flexibility to take extra time off when you need it.
- Salary packaging with novated leasing options
- Rewards and retail discounts program
- Continuous professional development and promotion opportunities
- Excellent company culture underpinned by Love, Decency and Kindness (LDK) s
- Employee referral bonus and retention bonus

How to apply

People who join LDK inherently possess and practice LDK values in their daily life. They have a desire and passion to apply these values toward a fulfilling purpose of caring for older people and want to work together with a team that are highly committed to the LDK vision.

If this sounds like you, and LDK sounds like the place you’ve been looking for, we would love to hear from you.

Please click on the “apply” button and follow the prompts. We will get in touch if you are shortlisted for this opportunity.

We encourage all applicants to visit our website at https://ldk.com.au/.

Kindly email [email protected] if you have any questions.

Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Police Clearance. LDK Seniors' Living has a mandatory vaccination policy in relation to influenza.

📌 Solutions Architect (Brisbane)
🏢 Ldk Seniors' Living
📍 Brisbane