• Employment Type: full time continuing role as an Enterprise Program Architect
• Requires knowledge of Oracle Financials, Oracle HCM and ServiceNow
• Attractive salary package
• Location: UNSW Kensington Campus (Hybrid Working Opportunities) 2-3 days currently in the office

About UNSW:
UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community, a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.

UNSW IT is part of UNSW’s Operations Division and provides reliable, cost effective and state of the art IT services. The Division was established in recent years to provide corporate services in support of the Faculties and Divisions. As part of this change the UNSW IT team continues to evolve as it works toward its ambition of being a world class technology delivery and support team enabling the University with world class solutions and capabilities.

UNSW IT is guided by the UNSW Technology Strategy which has identified key strategic goals and capabilities for UNSW technology. This role is to work on a key transformation program: BOS. The Business Optimization Strategy (BOS) is a key strategic investment for UNSW with a broad scale of impact. The BOS Program will deliver a new approach to service delivery by improving our processes, our data and our tools. Most importantly, BOS is about giving time back to our staff to focus on teaching and research. The business transformation under the BOS Program will focus on the processes and services related to Finance, People & Culture and Information Technology, and the way these services will be provided to all of UNSW. Two technology platforms will be implemented to support the achievement of this objective; 1) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to help UNSW streamline and manage Finance and P&C processes and 2) Enterprise Service Management to help UNSW create a single front door into support options for staff and suppliers. The primary purpose of the Enterprise Program Architect is to lead the development of target state architecture and strategy for the BOS Program and to ensure that the program of work is delivered in alignment to this target state. The role will lead the development of policies, standards, frameworks and architectural roadmaps to guide the planning, selection, design and implementation of solutions within BOS, and will also support IT governance. The incumbent will build collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders, vendors and application teams in the divisions and faculties, to understand and effectively translate diverse business needs and the capabilities of our strategic partners into sustainable IT solutions. This position will report into the Head of Portfolio Architecture and will have no direct reports.

Specific accountabilities for this role include:

• Primarily take the lead on programs for E2E solution architecture outcomes and deliverables by working across other enterprise and domain-based solution architects and business teams.
• Lead the development and advocate for the adoption of technology solutions aligned to our Enterprise Architecture principles, driving the evolution of the UNSW architecture to provide flexibility and scalability while minimising the Total Cost of Ownership and Cost to Serve.
• Guide and mentor Solution Architects to produce program Solution Architectures that align to Enterprise Architecture while meeting business needs and maximizing benefit.
• Create and maintain program architectural standards, frameworks and principles to ensure solutions are designed in alignment with IT enterprise architecture standards and frameworks.
• Involve and align critical stakeholder groups behind the technology strategy, including business leaders, strategic partners and internal partners. Drive collaboration across the ecosystem and foster an open, constructive environment where partnerships are built.
• Provide expert specialist advice to support transformation programs, providing strategy and architecture services to support the resolution of conflicting demands and/or designs and initiatives that continue to mature this capability.
• Undertake investment and lifecycle planning to ensure that the underlying asset base that supports the domain, are sustainable and supports the development and maintenance of planning budgets.
• Support the development of business cases to progress opportunities to invest more broadly for greater business benefit.
• Advise on the technical aspects of IT changes in the operational environment, participate in the change evaluation process, providing guidance, recommendations and approvals within the change process.
• Evaluate and provide assurance over supplier solution designs and proposals.
• Support and participate in IT governance forums that oversee and approve enterprise and solution level architectures and provide technical direction.
• Collaborate with the business and IT stakeholders to jointly lead the uplift in service delivery of the IT organisation.
• Promote a culture of process and continuous improvement, championing professional standards, innovation and professional methods.
• Assist in the development of procurement strategy, RFx and evaluation processes.
• Proactively identify and escalate potential risks. Contribute to the development of risk management plans, establishment of risk controls and performance of risk mitigation activities.

Skills and Experience:

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field or equivalent service experience providing architecture and consulting, with a minimum of 15 years of experience in IT, including enterprise architecture roles
• Expertise in Business Optimization of Financials, Human Resources, Payroll and Enterprise Service Management.
• Significant experience in one or more of the following architecture areas: Digital Experience, Technology - including Cloud, Networking & Infrastructure, Applications – including Higher Education applications and ERP/ESM, Data and Integration, including complex, unstructured data migrations, Business Architecture
• Extensive architecture experience across HR, Payroll, ESM, and Finance transformations in a cloud/SaaS ecosystem
• Extensive experience with Oracle Fusion ERP and ServiceNow implementations
• Experience in complex, unstructured data migrations
• Extensive data and integration architecture experience.
• Desirable - other corporate / higher education architecture experience
• Ability to engage effectively with business and IT stakeholders, understand demand for technology services, distil complex business issues into easily understood messages and successfully communicate opportunities for greater business efficiency and effectiveness.
• Excellent written and verbal presentation and negotiation skills, with the ability to structure and articulate messages to different audiences at all levels.
• Experience in leading the design while supporting the planning and delivery of transformation and migration to cloud based solutions
• Extensive experience and knowledge of enterprise architecture and design, creating and maintain blueprints, reference models, and lifecycle models for technology solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in performing technical governance in a complex environment
• Recognised as a subject matter expert, able to give specialist advice to others and with experience of driving technology change.
• An understanding of and commitment to UNSW’s aims, objectives and values in action, together with relevant policies and guidelines.
• Knowledge of health & safety (psychosocial and physical) responsibilities

To Apply: If this is of interest to you, please submit your CV, Cover Letter and responses to the Skills and Experience outlined above and in the position description.

More Information: visit https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/

Contact

Jen MacLachlan, email: j.maclachlan@unsw.edu.au

Applications close: Sunday 2^nd of November at 11.30pm

Benefits and Culture

• Flexible hybrid working
• Additional 3 days of leave over the Christmas Period
• Access to lifelong learning and career development
• Progressive HR practices
• Discounts and entitlements 

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.

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