Head of Architecture

**Job Details**:
**Location**

Sydney

**Salary**

$300000 per annum

**Job Type**

Permanent

**Ref**

BH-177666

**Contact**

Owain Evans- **Posted**

about 1 hour ago
- Ethos BeathChapman are proud to be partnering with
- As a key underpinning contributor to the success of the transformation, the university is looking for an experienced
- **Head of Architecture** to uplift the team and create an architecture practice that will provide strategic direction along with strong and right-sized governance.
- The Head of Architecture will be responsible for developing a practice that will provide meaningful change and impact by implementing contemporary best practices, driving digital adoption and innovation, and creating a collaborative and supportive culture befit of one of the world's most dynamic and innovative universities.**The Role**:
The Head of Architecture is responsible for ensuring that university operations and strategies are enabled by an efficiently curated, well-articulated, well designed, secure and robust technology landscape.
- A key authoritative advisor to the CIO, leveraging their rich expertise, experience and influencing skills, they will be a pivotal bridge between customers, business leaders, and IT. They will be a driving force behind understanding the needs of students, the academic community and professional staff. Building and leading a best-in-class architecture practice, they will ensure the establishment of a rationalised architecture that offers a sector-leading digital experience that manages cyber, technology, financial, and business risk appropriately.
- The Head of Architecture will be a driving force in the determining and designing a lean digital environment that satisfies strategic needs of the university.
- UTS values commitment to excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and social justice. As such, we see the importance of recruiting talent aligned to these values**Experience needed for the position**:

- Extensive experience and success working in similar roles within large complex organisations
- Proven experience in lifting an organisation’s architectural maturity
- Experience driving and contributing to organisational change and transformation
- Experience building strategic technology plans and roadmaps
- Experience designing, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions
- Demonstrated experience with business process and performance modelling, benchmarking, and financial analysis
- Ability to make enterprise architecture work in a fast paced and increasingly digital environment
- Ability to think big and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refreshes and hype
- Strong leadership skills, with the proven experience coaching and mentoring

**Benefits**
UTS offers employees challenging and rewarding work with opportunities for career progression, learning and development and flexibility. Taking pride in being a vibrant, diverse and practice-oriented organisation, they are passionate about their commitment to learning and innovation that is relevant to today's world, and benefits local and international communities. Your role will support this commitment and provide you the opportunity to make impactful change to thousands of students and staff and academics.**Diversity**
- This is an excellent opportunity to utilise and invest your experience, knowledge and skills into a university that are very much ready for change and transformation and leave a legacy that will redefine how the university engages with technology.
- For further information on this role or to confidentially apply, please contact