THE ROLE The Enterprise Architect provides enterprise-wide leadership for the Department's digital and technology strategy, enterprise architecture, and future-state business and technology direction. Operating at the intersection of strategy, design, and delivery, the role translates departmental priorities, operating imperatives, and service needs into coherent technology vision, target-state architectures, strategic roadmaps, enterprise standards, and assured delivery across business, data, application, and technology domains.

As the Department's leading architecture specialist, the role connects strategic objectives and service needs to technology investment, capability development, and operating model, and ensures architectural decisions are practical, coherent, and aligned to whole-of-Victorian-government policy and frameworks. Through authoritative advice, constructive challenge, and architectural oversight, the role shapes major technology and transformation decisions, guiding the Department towards cutting-edge, sustainable, and value-driven digital and technology outcomes.

The role works collaboratively across senior executives, business owners, frontline staff, program and solution architects, delivery teams, and external partners to influence direction, build trusted relationships, and drive the realisation of the Department's future-state architecture. In doing so, it strengthens long-term organisational capability, reduces technology and data risk, and contributes to broader whole-of-government architecture strategy and planning.

Accountabilities Include





- Enterprise Technology Strategy, Architecture and Direction

Lead the development and ongoing evolution of the department's enterprise technology strategy, target-state architecture and strategic roadmaps, ensuring alignment with departmental priorities, service delivery needs and whole-of-government direction. Establish enterprise architecture principles, standards and decision frameworks, and provide authoritative guidance on complex architectural decisions across business, data, application and technology domains.
- Strategic technology portfolio and investment leadership

Provide enterprise-wide architectural analysis and strategic advice to shape the department's technology portfolio, investment priorities and transition pathways, identifying opportunities to simplify, modernise and improve the technology estate. Contribute to business cases, investment proposals and program design by balancing business value, delivery practicality, cost, risk, sustainability and long-term supportability.
- Enterprise Architecture Governance and Assurance

Lead the department's enterprise architecture governance and assurance approach, including support to the Architecture Review Board,



to ensure significant technology decisions receive appropriate architectural review and guidance. Enterprise Architecture Application Requirements

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Applicants are required to submit a cover letter (no more than one page) outlining what they would bring to the role, and a resume addresses their technical experience, capabilities and personal attributes relevant to the role.

In addition, applicants are requested to provide a brief response, no more than one page, to the following questions:

How have you applied enterprise architecture to make a positive impact on front line staff and/or the customers they serve?

How To Apply

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.Applicants are required to submit a CV and Cover Letter (max 2 pages) outlining their suitability to the role in line with the Key Selection Criteria. Applicants must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or hold a valid work permit or visa.

Work eligibility will be checked as part of the recruitment process. Preferred candidates will be required to complete pre-employment screening, including a national police check and misconduct screening.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit Department of Families, Fairness and Housing Victoria | Jobs (www.dffh.vic.gov.au/jobs)

Please apply to submit your interest in this position.

📌 Enterprise Architect (Melbourne)
🏢 Victorian Department of Families, Fairness u0026 Housing
📍 Melbourne