IT Architect Lead

1 week ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia AusNet Services Ltd Full time
About Us

AusNet Services Ltd is a leading energy and network company, playing a crucial role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.

Salary and Benefits

We offer an estimated salary of $120,000 - $180,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus a range of benefits including flexibility, generous leave, community giving, and perks such as purchased leave and income protection insurance.

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute significantly to the efficient and secure delivery of electricity to consumers. As an IT Architect Lead, you will design and implement business and IT systems within the infrastructure and telecommunications domains, ensuring alignment with the broader architecture across all domains.

The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor, collaborate with cross-functional business and IT teams, drive innovation, and ensure alignment with business goals. This role involves:

  • Contribute to the IT architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with the company's overall vision.
  • Collaborate with senior executives, IT leaders, and business units to understand strategic priorities within the energy and network domain and translate these into long-term IT goals and roadmaps.
  • Design and maintain the enterprise IT architecture within the infrastructure, telecommunications, and OT networking domain, including data centre infrastructure, servers, storage, network (LAN/WAN/Mesh), industrial networks (OT), cloud, and telecommunications systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and consistency across IT and OT environments.
  • Establish, promote, and uphold architectural standards, policies, and best practices that support agility, scalability, and resilience.
  • Optimise resources/cost within the infrastructure and telecommunications domain and cross domains (infrastructure consolidation, virtualisation, utilisation, IT spending).

You will work closely with business units, operations, and engineering teams to understand their requirements and develop effective architectural solutions. You will also identify and mitigate risks related to IT architecture, cybersecurity, and data privacy within the energy and network domain.

Required Skills and Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • A relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field (master's degree preferred).
  • Extensive experience in IT architecture, including hands-on design and implementation.
  • Extensive experience with Operational Technology (OT) networking, including protocols like Modbus, DNP3, and IEC 61850.
  • In-depth understanding of communication protocols used in industrial environments to ensure robust OT networking.
  • Knowledge of industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.
  • Experience in virtualisation technologies, particularly VMware vSphere and vCenter.
  • Experience with telecommunications technologies specific to OT environments, such as private LTE, microwave, and radio systems.
  • Background in energy utilities or similar industries.
About Our Team

We are a diverse and inclusive team, committed to making real progress in the clean energy transition. We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives, and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events, or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.

How to Apply
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