Principal Enterprise Architect - Hybrid Working

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to work in technology for the fourth year in a row. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

Job Description

About the role 

The Principal Enterprise Architect is a key leadership position within Architecture, reporting to the Chief Architect. The primary objective of this position is to establish and maintain an enterprise architecture framework that aligns with SEEK’s strategic goals and objectives. 

Key to the role will be to develop current state and future state enterprise models to support strategic decision making, collaborate with other architecture teams to develop architecture strategies and roadmaps, define and operationalize architecture principles, standards, patterns, and guidelines, and support the technology leadership team in building business cases for key technology capabilities.

The Team

Architecture is a key function in Technology made up of over 20 high-performing professionals focused on the mission of connecting strategy to delivery. We operate in an agile and evolutionary approach, doing the right amount of thinking up front to enable effective decision making and providing clear direction and recommendations to leaders and teams. The team is made up of four domains:

• Enterprise Architecture: provides a strategic framework to align SEEK’s processes, platforms, and data to achieve its objectives
• Customer Architecture: solves complex, cross-team challenges to build products that customers love, improves placements, and improves customer value and yield
• Platform Architecture: designs operationally efficient solutions that help SEEK to deliver faster, at lower cost, while improve productivity, and simplifying our architecture
• Growth Architecture: supports the teams solving new problem spaces by developing solution architectures and approaches to accelerate the path ot product market fit
• Architecture Practices: defines and operates the methodology and platforms employed to deliver constently high-quality outcomes at pace and on time – both by architects and scaled across SEEK

Primary Stakeholders:

• Executive Leadership Team, inc. CEO and MD, Technology
• Technology Leadership Team and other Senior Leadership Team members
• Chief Architect and Architecture Leadership Team
• Principal, Solution and Associate Architects
• Technology ops and delivery teams, inc. Engineering

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain an enterprise architecture framework that helps SEEK to make informed decisions, deliver with velocity, and realise material benefits in terms of cost optimisation, risk reduction, and simplification
• Ensure that the enterprise architecture supports SEEK’s business objectives and enables the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective technology outcomes that drive velocity, productivity, and simplicity.
• Develop current state and future state enterprise models, including business (e.g. op model, customer journeys and processes, etc.), data, application, and technology architectures, to support strategic decision making
• Define and operationalize architecture principles, standards, patterns, and guidelines to ensure consistency and quality across all technology solutions
• Support the technology leadership team in building business cases for key technology capabilities needed to deliver the company's strategy
• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies, and incorporate relevant innovations into the enterprise architecture framework, strategies, and roadmaps
• Participate in architecture management processes (e.g. the Architecture SteerCo) to ensure that technology solutions align with the enterprise architecture framework and principles

Qualifications

• Proven track record of establishing and maintaining enterprise architecture practices, frameworks, and strategies that enable executive level decision making
• Deep understanding of, and hands on experience delivering, technology strategies that drive investment in foundational capabilities to support an organisations future state
• Excellent verbal and written communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage with senior non-technical and technical audiences
• Cross-industry experience with at least some spent with a product and engineering-oriented company like SEEK
• Have been in a leadership role within an Enterprise Architecture function 

Additional Information

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• SEEKer Support, a confidential service that offers employees up to six sessions with a mental health professional of your choice

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.