Strategy and Architecture Manager

Ready to make a splash in your career? WaterNSW is seeking an experienced
Strategy and Architecture Manager
(Full-time, Permanent) to join our team.

This is an opportunity to work with an essential organisation creating a more sustainable future for the state.

This role offers the flexibility to work around life, your contribution will be valued, and you'll be supported to build a rewarding career.

Our Perks And Benefits
At WaterNSW, we believe that our employees should be as well taken care of as our rivers, dams, and pipelines, that's why we offer a load of benefits.

• Flexible working.
• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Fertility leave.
• Corporate wear allowance.
• Professional development and educational assistance.
• Access to remote area benefit packaging – based on work location.
• Attractive remuneration.
• And so much more

What You'll Do

• Translate business strategy into technology, data, and AI architecture roadmaps. Prioritise architecture initiatives and BAU optimisations to maximise value across WaterNSW. Collaborate with Digital Transformation, Delivery, and PMO teams to align architecture priorities with program delivery schedules.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and standards. Oversee the development of reference architectures, patterns, and reusable asset.
• Maintain the AI Register and roadmap, ensuring initiatives are prioritised, funded, and aligned with strategy. Oversee business cases and risk/privacy/ethics assessments, and coordinate with Finance, PMO, and the Digital, Cyber & AI Risk Advisor to track remediation, close audit actions, and provide regular assurance reporting to governance forums.
• Provide architectural guidance to project teams, ensuring new initiatives comply with enterprise architecture and optimisation goals. Oversee technical due diligence for projects, including solution feasibility, integration, and alignment with standards.
• Support compliance with security, data, and regulatory requirements across projects and BAU. Chair and coordinate Architecture Review Board (ARB) and other governance forums to ensure consistent decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve architecture practices, tools, and processes. Champion the adoption of emerging technologies, data strategies, and AI solutions where they add measurable value. Embed lessons learned from project delivery and BAU activities to strengthen architectural decision-making.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders, influencing strategic decision-making through architectural insights. Partner with the business to understand strategic priorities and ensure solutions meet business, regulatory, and customer requirements.
• Lead and mentor a team of enterprise, solution, and domain architects, fostering a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation. Build organisational capability in architecture, and strategic planning.

What We Are Looking For

• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, or related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) & evidence of continuous professional development in digital strategy, enterprise architecture, or technology leadership.
• In-depth knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, methodologies and strong understanding of application, integration, data, and infrastructure domains, including cloud & hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies (cloud-native, API-led integration, AI/ML, IoT) & their strategic impact and deep understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud, applications, integration, data, AI, and security landscapes.
• Experience influencing and advising executives and senior stakeholders on technology strategy.
• Experience in rationalising, optimising, and consolidating complex technology environment & working within both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies, with the ability to adapt architectural guidance to suit different project delivery approaches.
• Current NSW Drivers Licence.

How We Will Support You
At WaterNSW, we balance flexibility – and the way we work – with the needs of the business, our teams, and us as individuals.

When it comes to working in an office, we work in a hybrid way. If you're required to be in the field or on site, the benefits of flexibility can be achieved in other ways, such as through a condensed work week.

We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer and are committed to providing equal opportunities for women. Visit our WORK180 page to access our benefits and career development opportunities.

More About Our Team / Culture
No matter how or where you work, safety is the number one priority. This means the physical and mental safety of you, your colleagues, and the public.

Who is WaterNSW?
WaterNSW operates the state's dams, capturing and storing water, and then supplying it ready for distribution – for the environment, agriculture, industry and the community. With 41 major dams and hundreds of waterways across the state, we play a vital role at the source of the state's water, delivering two thirds of all water used in NSW.

We're the people taking care of the state's water at the source – capturing, storing, delivering. Find out more at

For more information, please reach out to: Azmine Amer )

Please note applications for this position will close on 14th November 2025, 5.00pm.

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