Director - Engineering Advisory and Architecture

Date: 5 Sept 2025

Location:

Sydney, NSW, AU

Department: Technology & Transformation

Description:

Job Requisition ID: 39120

Director – Engineering Strategy & Architecture

Flexible work arrangements

Global opportunities

Salary packaging

Wellbeing and mental health programmes

Professional development pathways

Inclusive culture and employee networks

About the Team

Our Engineering Strategy & Architecture team partners with clients to align technology strategy, enterprise architecture, cloud adoption, and operating models with business objectives—shaping technology-enabled transformations that deliver measurable outcomes. We translate ambition into executable roadmaps, robust architectures, and value-focused delivery models.

We lead in Generative AI (GenAI), helping clients accelerate innovation, reimagine business models, and deliver human-centred solutions responsibly. We design governance, risk, and architecture patterns that enable trustworthy adoption and tangible value, informed by Deloitte's global research, alliances, and delivery experience.

As a Director, you will balance time across sales, practice management, and delivery. You will originate and convert opportunities, oversee a portfolio of engagements, and empower multidisciplinary teams to deliver with quality. You will own senior stakeholder and executive relationships alongside Partners and be accountable for project success across scope, schedule, quality, and value.

We are hiring for expertise in:

Technology strategy and operating model design

Enterprise and solution architecture

Cloud strategy and transformation

Business case and TCO modelling

Architecture governance and tooling

Location & Experience

Location: Flexible across Australia

Experience: 10+ years of relevant experience preferred (flexible based on capability and impact)

What will your typical day look like?

You will shape and convert opportunities, steward delivery across multiple engagements, and grow our people and offerings. You will champion responsible GenAI adoption—internally and with clients—ensuring patterns, controls, and architectures deliver secure, explainable, and measurable outcomes.

Project Delivery

Oversee 2–4 concurrent engagements (typically 2–3 active plus business development), setting delivery approach, governance, resourcing, and success measures.

Retain ownership of executive and buyer relationships; lead critical moments such as mobilisation, design decisions, risk reviews, and steerco forums.

Assure quality and outcomes: establish governance, oversee RAID and dependencies, manage vendors and alliances, and ensure on-time, in-budget delivery.

Leverage Deloitte's local and global SME network to ensure your project delivery teams are appropriately supported by domain experts.

Business Development

Originate and shape opportunities with account teams; lead account planning, pipeline shaping, and value hypotheses aligned to client priorities.

Run strategic bids end-to-end: form and direct bid teams, craft tailored proposals, develop solution and delivery approaches, estimates, and commercials.

Lead orals and client showcases; articulate differentiated stories that connect strategy, architecture, cloud, and GenAI to measurable outcomes.

Build and deepen executive relationships; jointly lead accounts with Partners to drive growth and long-term client value.

Lead or support alliance go-to-market plays for priority offerings and sectors, leveraging assets and accelerators where relevant.

Practice Contribution

Build high-performing teams: mentor and develop Managers, Senior Managers, and emerging leaders; foster inclusive, psychologically safe environments while encouraging high-performance & outcomes.

Govern and evolve our methods: uplift delivery standards, architecture governance, quality assurance, and risk management across the portfolio.

Develop IP and offerings: reference architectures, decision frameworks, value-modelling assets, and responsible GenAI operating models and controls.

Champion internal GenAI adoption: uplift tooling, patterns, and ways of working to improve productivity and quality across the practice.

Support workforce planning, recruitment, and communities of practice to scale capability nationally.

Capabilities & Experience

You bring significant domain expertise, a track record of origination and conversion, and proven delivery leadership across complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Role-Specific Capabilities

Proposal Writing: Lead complex bids end-to-end; craft win themes and narratives; coordinate SMEs; develop pricing, SoWs, and risk positions.

Strategic Selling: Drive account strategies, origination, and stakeholder maps; build executive sponsorship and articulate clear value hypotheses.

Commercial Management: Oversee engagement commercials with Partners—scope, estimates, margins, resourcing, change control, and vendor agreements.

Account Leadership: Co-own key accounts with Partners; align go-to-market, delivery, and growth initiatives.

Core Consulting Capabilities

Strategic Thinking: Connect business strategy to target states, portfolios, and roadmaps; prioritise investments by value, risk, and feasibility.

Communication & Facilitation: Lead executive workshops and steerco; simplify complexity; frame options and drive decisions.

Problem Solving: Apply hypothesis-led, data-driven approaches; structure ambiguous problems; balance trade-offs and guide outcomes.

Stakeholder Leadership: Build trusted relationships with C-suite and senior leaders; navigate governance and negotiate commitments.

Financial Modelling (ROI/TCO): Lead investment cases with TCO/NPV/ROI, options and sensitivities, and benefits realisation approaches.

Technical Capabilities

Delivery Management: Establish portfolio governance; assure integrated plans; maintain RAID; manage dependencies and vendors; ensure QA and sign-offs.

Architecture Design: Direct and assure capability models, current/target states, reference architectures, solution patterns, and non-functional requirements.

Cloud Platforms Knowledge: Deep expertise in hyperscaler technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP); landing zones, identity, networking, security, FinOps, and migration/modernisation patterns.

Data, Integration, and Security: Shape strategies for data platforms, API-led and event-driven integration, identity and access, zero-trust and privacy-by-design, aligned to regulatory obligations.

GenAI & Automation: Lead responsible AI governance and adoption; select patterns and platforms (e.g., RAG, agents, orchestration); scale use cases safely.

Domain Exposure

Significant depth in one or more sectors such as financial services, energy and utilities, public sector, health, consumer, or TMT, ideally within regulated environments.

Nice-to-have

Certifications: TOGAF or equivalent, AWS/Azure/GCP professional or specialty, Agile leadership (e.g., SAFe), and Responsible AI credentials.

Tooling: LeanIX or Orbus, cloud design tooling, Jira/Confluence, value-modelling tools, and advanced Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.

External presence: Conference speaking, publications, or industry forums are valued but not required.

Why Deloitte

We foster an inclusive culture and support flexible working arrangements so you can do your best work. Deloitte combines deep engineering expertise with leadership in GenAI, working with global alliances to deliver responsible innovation and measurable outcomes. Our practitioners draw on proven assets, accelerators, and governance frameworks to reduce risk and speed time-to-value—ensuring technology investments are ethical, sustainable, and aligned to strategy. Join a team recognised for trusted advice, execution excellence, and the ability to help clients transform with confidence.

By applying for this job, you'll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We've designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.