Enterprise Architect

Architects (Information & Communication Technology)

We're reimagining the way Australians live, work, and play. We own and manage some of the most recognisable and loved retail destinations across Australia.
We’re evolving our portfolio into destinations that offer a broad selection of retail, residential, and office spaces. Through our diverse portfolio, data-led decision-making, and nationwide development pipeline, we do things differently.

We are Vicinity.

The Enterprise Architect role is a key role to drive effective technology strategy and roadmap planning within Vicinity, that helps us shape the impact of technology to Vicinity.

This role is responsible for leading the creation of strategic technology plans and roadmaps that enables Vicinity's critical business capabilities and programs.

Expectations & Deliverables

Strategic Planning -

• Develop an effective understanding of Vicinity's industry, business and technology drivers to create and socialise strategic technology direction for priority areas within Vicinity, that delivers value for business and enterprise needs today, and supports future business strategy

Business and Capability Planning -

• Collaborate with key leaders to co-create future state technology direction and roadmaps that supports future business strategy for key business capabilities
• Develop deep understanding of future business and technology requirements that shape the most important outcomes, roadmaps, solutions and initiatives.
• Work closely with stakeholders and executives to shape and secure transformational programs and initiatives for these business capabilities

Stakeholder Engagement -

• Develop strong and influential working relationships with executive, business and technology leaders across strategic, roadmap & program planning engagements
• Develop profile with key business stakeholders to act as trusted independent technology advisor
• Develop structure and content to guide technology programs and initiatives across Vicinity with practical architecture principles, standards and policies that enable teams to deliver business outcomes while supporting strategic technology direction

Architecture Collaboration -

• Engage with architects and technology leaders from solutions and programs across Vicinity’s business, to facilitate aligned technology direction with Vicinity’s strategic technology direction

Key Role Relationships
Internal

• Executives, Business Leaders, 
• Program Leads, Owners of Technology Platforms & Applications

External 

• Market research & consultative advisory partners
• Technology platforms & professional service vendors

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE (what you have done) -

• 10+ years demonstrated experience in scoping and delivering architecture work that enables enterprise technology direction, executable technology roadmaps and high impact transformation programs
• Experience in defining and delivering sound, contemporary and pragmatic approaches for wide range of technology areas, inclusive of strategic direction, current state assessments, target blueprints and roadmaps
• Demonstrated experience of engaging business stakeholders to discover and co-create sound business technology roadmaps that support their strategy while translating to material uplift in their technology 
• Experience of initiating major discovery engagements and securing business cases for programs in cross-functional teams
• Experience in providing solution architecture within complex programs leading to successful solution execution and operations, across waterfall and agile delivery methodologies

CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE (what you need to know) -

• Familiarity with basic graphical modelling approaches, tools and repositories
• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, or equivalent experience in a related business

CAPABILITIES (what you can do) -

• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage effective relationships with executive, senior business and technology leaders 
• Proven ability to design and facilitate workshops with business and technology stakeholders to support architectural efforts
• Excellent planning and organizational skills, managing multiple deliverables simultaneously and ability to prioritise based on strategic outcome realisation
• Excellent written and verbal communicator, particularly in terms of simply presenting complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to engage, influence and negotiate program alignment to the strategic direction for the domain, particularly contributing to sound successful program establishment phases, where delivery approach, estimations, resource identification and risk mitigation are addressed

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES (who you are) -

• Adaptable - comfortable with navigating uncertainty and applying structure where required
• Forward thinking – anticipates, sets goals for future and looks for enterprise needs
• Persuasive – enjoys influencing and working with people
• Consultative – works with wide range of stakeholders, consults widely to ensure decisions land well
• Analytical – ensures independence and data behind decisions
• Resilient – Overcome inevitable hurdles that are within control, or only with influencing, to tackle objectives and goals with a longer timeframe 
• Previous experience working with REIT organisations, inclusive of construction and property management
• Previous experience of working with Architecture tooling and platforms
• Knowledge of core business platforms (e.g. SalesForce,), modern technology approaches (cloud, integration, data stacks)

We live and work by our values of Respect, Integrity, Customer Focus, Collaboration and Excellence. They are the foundation to everything we do and provide us a north star with which we can shape meaningful places where communities connect.

At Vicinity we embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where we attract, retain and develop our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

Our people and our Employee Advocacy Groups (Gender Balance, Cultural Diversity, Disability & Access and Pride & Allies) actively build community and provide allyship within Vicinity. If you’d like to speak to someone to understand what it’s like firsthand to work here, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team.

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Note: To be eligible to apply for this position, you must have existing, relevant Australian work rights. At the later stages of the recruitment process the shortlisted candidate/candidates will be required to undergo a Criminal History Background/Police Check as a mandatory part of the process. Additional qualification checks may also be required dependant on role and level.

We own and manage some of the most recognisable and loved retail destinations across Australia. From small community shopping centres to world-class destination centres like the iconic Chadstone in Melbourne and Queen Victoria Building in Sydney. As we embark on our future, we're redeveloping our portfolio and leveraging cutting-edge innovation to redefine experiences.

We own and manage some of the most recognisable and loved retail destinations across Australia. From small community shopping centres to world-class destination centres like the iconic Chadstone in Melbourne and Queen Victoria Building in Sydney. As we embark on our future, we're redeveloping our portfolio and leveraging cutting-edge innovation to redefine experiences.

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