Skills, Experience and Competencies
Core Skills and Expertise
- Enterprise and solution architecture across business, process, data, application, integration, technology and security domains.
- Architecting for outcomes translating strategy into executable blueprints, roadmaps, sequencing and build instructions.
- Non-functional requirements (NFRs), controls and quality: performance, resilience, security-by-design, testability and auditability.
- Integration and data architecture fundamentals: interface contracts, data flows, information models and trusted data foundations.
- Establish and maintain governance and assurance architecture decision records, guardrails, reviews, and risk/issue/dependency management across streams.
- Operational readiness deployment approach with cutover, monitoring, support model and run books—continuity from concept to operation.
- Asset mindset building reusable patterns, templates and reference designs to remove friction and scale what works.
Experience
- 10–15+ years of experience across enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or large-scale technology delivery.
- Proven experience leading architecture across complex programs spanning multiple platforms, vendors, and delivery streams.
- Experience producing build-ready artefacts and providing delivery assurance (NFRs, controls, sequencing, environments, testability, operational readiness).
- Strong experience in consulting or systems integration organisations, including client shaping, governance and stakeholder management.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and uplift capability across teams, embedding repeatable ways of working that persist beyond go-live.
Competencies
- Systems thinking and outcome orientation connecting strategy, design and delivery across people, process, data and technology.
- Clarity in complexity making decisions with incomplete information, documents trade-offs, and drives alignment.
- Stakeholder leadership influencing executives, delivery leads and vendors; facilitate decisions and resolving cross-stream conflicts.
- Governance and delivery discipline applying guardrails, assurance and operational readiness to reduce risk and rework.
Qualifications and Certifications
- TOGAF® Certified (mandatory) or equivalent architecture certification.
- Relevant delivery and governance frameworks (e.g. SAFe®, ITIL®) desirable.
- Broad technology exposure across enterprise applications, integration platforms, data platforms, identity and security, and cloud/hybrid environments.
