Head of Architecture

**Company Description**
For a winning team that is evolving.** Forward with Cuscal.**

At Cuscal, you’ll find a strong, successful company that’s reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all. Here, you’ll deliver or support interesting, ground-breaking projects that have real impact - on Australia’s financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves. You’ll innovate alongside skilled, smart, connected teams. And you’ll build an impressive, fulfilling career that continues to grow. As the largest independent payment solution providers, we’ve set the standard for over 50 years. Now, we’re preparing to pioneer the next 50.
**Job Description** We are looking for a Head of Architecture and Platforms to lead the Enterprise Architecture function, ensuring that the technology ecosystem is scalable, secure, and capable of driving innovation, operational efficiency, and seamless integration across systems and services.**

**What is this role about?**

As the **Head of Architecture and Platforms**, you will define, develop, and implement a cohesive platform strategy that aligns with the organization’s business objectives while uplifting the maturity and capability of the underlying architecture function.

By establishing architectural principles, frameworks, and roadmaps, this function enables the organization to leverage modern platforms to optimize delivery, enhance customer experience, and achieve long-term sustainability. Additionally, it focuses on enhancing the architecture function through the adoption of best practices, improved governance, and the development of skills, tools, and processes to position the organisation for future growth and adaptability.

Here’s some more insight into what you’ll work on,

**Enterprise Architecture Leadership**
- Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap to align with the organization’s overall business goals and technological vision.
- Define, implement, and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and principles across the technology organization.

**Strategic Alignment with Business Objectives**
- Collaborate with executive leadership to understand and influence business strategy, ensuring architectural solutions support business outcomes.
- Lead efforts to identify innovative technologies and architectures that provide a competitive advantage and increase operational efficiency.

**Application and System Design Oversight**
- Provide architectural governance and review processes, ensuring projects adhere to established architectural principles and best practices.

**Technology Modernization and Innovation**
- Lead modernization initiatives, including the transition from legacy systems to modern, cloud-based, or distributed architectures.
- Champion emerging technologies and methodologies such as microservices, APIs, containerization, and DevOps to enhance agility and speed of delivery.

**Data Architecture and Integration**
- Support strategies for data architecture that optimize data flow, integration, security, and analytics capabilities across the organization.

**Qualifications** What can you bring?**

**(Knowledge and Experience)**

**Essential**:

- Platform Strategy and Ecosystem Design
- Enterprise Architecture Leadership
- Cloud and Modern Technology Expertise
- Governance and Compliance Management
- Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management
- Although not required, any experience in the following would be highly desirable: _
- Industry-Specific Experience
- Financial and Cost Optimization
- Agile and Lean Methodologies
- Data and Analytics Expertise
- Capability Uplift in Architecture Functions

**(Skills)**

**Essential**:
- Strategic Thinking and Business Alignment
- Platform Strategy Development
- Technology Leadership
- Expertise in Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- Governance and Risk Management Desired Skills
- Industry-Specific Knowledge
- Financial Acumen
- Agile and Lean Practices
- Innovation and Emerging Technology Insight
- Mentoring and Capability Building

**Desired Skills**- Industry-Specific Knowledge
- Financial Acumen
- Agile and Lean Practices
- Innovation and Emerging Technology Insight
- Mentoring and Capability Building

**Additional Information** What’s it like to work here?**

As well as good pay and a great culture, we back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace where the very best talent in Australia chooses to work. We support our colleagues with flexible work arrangements through our hybrid model whilst also offering a wide range of financial, lifestyle, health & wellbeing benefits.

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