Domain Architect

Location:
Victoria, Australia

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Description:

• Lead architectural decisions that directly impact how energy is delivered to over 1.5 million Victorians.
• Senior role with visibility across executive leadership, business units, and regulatory bodies
• Southbank Location

At AusNet, we're the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities and Australia's cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That's refreshing.

About the role

Join AusNet and help shape how energy is delivered to over 1.5 million Victorians. As a Domain Architect, you'll provide thought leadership across the OT Telecommunications and Infrastructure domains with a focus on helping us make key decisions on how we evolve to support the growing demand for communication, processing and security for our mission critical infrastructure.

You will work closely with our strategic partners shaping initiatives during our ideation phase and aligning them strategy and then performing a governance and adviser role across the full lifecycle.

This is a senior role with visibility across executive leadership, delivery partners, and regulatory bodies.

Why this role is exciting

• Make a Mark on OT: We're on a mission to improve and modernise our OT landscape, and we want your expertise to help drive that evolution.
• Be a Change Agent: This is a role for someone who's not afraid to challenge the status quo. We're looking for someone who's proactive, bold, and ready to make things happen while being comfortable working with ambiguity to help provide clear vision for less technical stakeholders.

You will be responsible for:

• Shape and deliver the OT architecture strategy aligned with AusNet's vision and business priorities.
• Design and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient architecture across the Energy & Network domain.
• Collaborate with business units, operations, and engineering teams to translate needs into architectural solutions.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to cyber security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance.
• Champion architectural standards, policies, and best practices across domains.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in digital architecture.
• Influence strategic decisions on new systems, IT services, and cyber programs.
• Provide domain expertise to ensure architectural consistency across digital projects.

What You Bring

• Proven experience in enterprise or domain architecture within energy, utilities, or complex technical environments.
• Strong OT and infrastructure background; cloud skills are highly valued.
• If you bring all three—OT, infrastructure, and cloud—you're a unicorn, and we want to talk but be prepared to back this up with clear examples of capability.
• Strategic mindset with hands-on delivery capability.
• Deep understanding of IT systems, cyber security, and regulatory frameworks.
• Passion for innovation and sustainable digital transformation.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on delivery.
• A passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and sustainable digital transformation.

Please note, we will not be engaging in Recruitment agencies for this role, please apply directly

A real place to belong.

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here's what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we'll work with you to help balance work and life.
• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you've come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we're excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you're passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.