Enterprise Architect, Group Data Platforms

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Department: Tech A&E Platform Architecture

Division: Technology

Location: Melbourne

About Us

At ANZ, we're applying new ways technology and data can be harnessed as we work towards a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

About the Role

As the Domain Architect for ANZ’s Data domain, you will lead architecture and co-ordinate strategy for our end to hybrid-cloud data & analytics platforms. At ANZ, we have a federated data strategy based on data mesh concepts, data products on nodes of various technologies - we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) extensively. We also operate private cloud services on Openshift and Kubernetes. This role will be a pivotal, hands-on leadership role, rapidly gaining trust of the engineering community who enable and operate these services for ANZ on a daily basis as well as the business community relying on these services.
As ANZ accelerates our cloud migration journey, this role will work very collaboratively across the whole of ANZ’s business, with our business stakeholders, technology, cybersecurity and risk partners.
You will succeed by establishing a trusted technical advisor relationship for our Domain Lead for Data & Analytics, and our Domain Lead for Enterprise Finance & Data, as well as trusted peer relationships with the Technology Area Leads for Cloud Platforms, Enterprise Data Analytics, Data Management, Data Security and other technology function domain leads as needed. You’ll draw on your deep and broad technical expertise, coupled with your ability to engage commercially, translating seamlessly between business strategy, architecture and requirements, and technical solutions.
You’ll be able to pragmatically guide technical architects to deliver options, recommendations and solutions, aligned to roadmaps and technical strategy that you maintain. You will engage regularly with your peers and the business facing domain architects to ensure alignment, reuse and scalability of solutions across the group. You’ll be an inspiring thought leader, and have an executive presence, capable of senior executive communication, and co-authoring board papers.

Role Type: Permanent
Role Location: Melbourne
Work Hours: Full time (Hybrid)

What will your day look like?

• Establishing and maintaining collaborative trusted advisor relationships with domain leaders for all group data teams, security tools and applications teams, and enabling infrastructure teams.
• Establishing and maintaining collaborative peer relationships with the Domain Architecture community and the business Domain Leads as necessary, as well as relevant leaders in our Cybersecurity domain.
• Leading, Guiding and Co-ordinating the delivery, update and maintenance of ANZ Banking Group’s group-wide technical strategy and technology roadmaps, for data, data platforms and tools, including business case support and investment planning activities.
• Developing and supporting compelling and pragmatic architecture artefacts that are required to set clear direction, enabling delivery teams to move at pace while ensuring group wide alignment and balanced pace.
• Work closely with the architects in our Cloud Platforms and Enterprise Data & Analytics teams to guide their approach towards pragmatically balancing the needs of the domain with the needs of the business.
• Provide day to day coaching, mentoring and development of the technical, solution and application architects across technology who work on data (currently a team of ~20 indirectly managed staff and 4 directs)
• Provide thought leadership as a member of the CTO Architecture and Engineering extended leadership team. This may include for example contributing towards enterprise governance, assurance practices, processes, standards.
• Operating an architecture assurance function that is compliant with regulatory requirements, as part of a federated architecture operating model.
• Leading Architecture work on extensive strategic initiatives as this domain supports our business transition from data centres to cloud, for example Teradata migration to Teradata Vantage.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• Technically deep background in both modern data tooling and cloud hyperscalers, ideally three or more of the domain skillsets (Data Mesh , enterprise scale modern data services and platforms, Cloud-native ETL/ELT tooling, Data compliance and security tools, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Data-as-Product Management).
• A broad, working technical knowledge of most of the domain skillsets, with a strong desire to continually learn and improve skills, a strategic “big picture” thinker, comfortable with ambiguity and solving problems.
• Extensive experience in architecture as practiced in large enterprises – process, enablement, governance, socialisation, communication, with a very strong focus on collaborative work with engineering teams, DevOps, SRE a plus.
• Extensive experience in technical vendor management, including support of commercial contract renewals, sourcing of new vendors, analysis of vendor fit to solution requirements, and during major programs of change.
• A bias towards pragmatism – perfection is the enemy of good. You will seek to understand the business strategy and limitations and work towards an achievable target, iterating to improve over time.
• Highly proficient in leading by influencing, managing stakeholder relationships, expectations, and requirements.
• Proven track record in establishing credibility and building strong partnerships with diverse stakeholder backgrounds, spanning technical and business.
• Ability to communicate and guide strategic direction to a wide variety of technical, management and executive levels, including ExCo and Board level in both written and verbal presentations. This includes an ability to explain complex technical situations in plain business language to a variety of stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of modern data requirements, and an emphasis on quality, automated engineering, security and reusability.
• Skilled at coaching and mentoring developing architects to encourage curiosity, safe spaces for debate, and a desire for continuous improvement.
• Working knowledge of global key industry trends, vendors, challenges and opportunities.
• Highly desirable that you hold Industry certifications in job-related skills (AWS Well Architected, Certified Data Engineer – Associate or Professional, GCP Cloud Engineer / Cloud Architect – note not Azure/Microsoft).
• AI/ML Certifications e.g. AWS AI Practioner, Machine Learning Engineer Associate.
• Hands-on experience with data modernisation / transformation programs, migration from Teradata to GCP/AWS , Data Role based access control - migration to Entra ID, re-engineering for resilience, reusability practices.
• Previous experience designing and delivering strategy artefacts and leading the work that follows successful endorsement.
• Extensive knowledge of Data tooling including Data Catalogues, ETL/ELT (dbt), Observability, OpenLineage and OTEL/Modern data management knowledge around semantic models, their supporting ontologies, and knowledge graph implementations of ontologies.

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you're a candidate with a disability or access requirement, and have an enquiry about the support provided, please let us know on your application or visit ANZ Accessibility and Inclusion Programs for alternate contact methods.

To find out more about working at ANZ, visit . You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 96279.

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