Principal Architect

At BAE Systems Australia

• Do interesting work that MATTERS
• ENJOY what you do
• GROW your career
• Be YOU

 We work in a thriving sector – one that puts us at the forefront of exciting and meaningful work. Every day we push boundaries to produce some of the world's most innovative and ground breaking technology. Individually we all contribute to our success. Collectively we make the impossible possible.

Recognised for delivering projects of global and national significance that help keep Australia safe, it is our shared passion that shapes our culture, and our people that make it a great place to work.

About the OPPORTUNITY

As Principal Architect you will be responsible for providing leadership, design guidance and expertise required to positively influence informed business outcomes that align to strategy for proactively leading and supporting Enterprise Services Strategy and Architecture activities. Help define architecture blueprint and roadmap, develop solution architectures for initiatives, evaluate options, and provide guidance to engineering teams. 

The role will also support innovation by monitoring emerging technologies/methods and championing those that will add value.

We are flexible with the location as this role can be performed from our Melbourne or Sydney or Adelaide offices.

More specifically, you will

• Be responsible to set the architectural direction for Enterprise Services technology landscape and manage through to delivery
• Be at the forefront of technology innovation and bring in relevant insights as part of setting the architectural direction for Enterprise Services
• Lead with collaboration, and foster a culture of inclusive partnership that delivers together with clear targets, ambition, dynamism and management pragmatism
• Collaborating with business stakeholders to understand business demands and drivers, elaborating these, assessing the impacts and implications for our existing technology portfolio and programs of work, and shaping a response
• Developing and maintaining a target state architecture for Enterprise Services and a roadmap to get there, considering organisational challenges and imperatives
• Partnering with other architects, analysts, engineers, and subject matter experts to ensure that the target state architecture is clearly communicated and understood and aligns with both business and technology strategic intents
• Presenting big picture or detailed architecture views and artefacts to a variety of stakeholders across business and technology teams
• Building relationships with key business and technology stakeholders and setting direction together and maintaining key Architecture artefacts, e.g. Architecture / Solution Overview

About YOU

• Demonstrated 6-8 yrs experience in leadership roles focusing on development of business strategy and capability development
• Prior experience at a senior level demonstrating strong commercial acumen and understanding of business value
• Experience in managing complex business projects, including management of staff
• Demonstrated ability to articulate the vision and influence change by demonstrating a realistic technology value proposition to the business
• Proven knowledge and experience in architecture and design method and practice Experience with establishing and managing Enterprise (Business, Information Application, Technology) practices
• Application development leveraging cloud-native technologies, ideally Azure IaaS/PaaS
• Experience in analysing and modelling large, complex domains and associated service design
• Experience in distributed (micro) service-oriented architecture, as well as refactoring monoliths into modular services
• Experience in the architecture and design of event-driven systems, different methods of service and system integration (APIs, streams, etc), and related concerns such as orchestration
• Experience architecting digital platforms for customers and employees, including UI and UX considerations
• Understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability to support agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
• Stakeholder engagement and exceptional presentation skills to senior-level executives
• Experience in demand and capacity management and resource forecasting

We believe in hiring for potential, we know that some candidates hesitate if they don't tick all the boxes.  If this role interests you, but you don't meet all the criteria, we still encourage you to apply.

About US

You will be joining a workplace that truly cares about your wellbeing.

Our people are diverse and we value the variety of perspectives this brings, we know that a culture that is inclusive and fosters a sense of belonging is a place we can all make the most of our unique talents and be our best.

As Australia's largest defence company in a rapidly growing sector, you will be connected into a global team and encouraged to explore where your career might take you whether that is a traditional career path or squiggly one, there are infinite possibilities for you at BAE Systems Australia.

We welcome applicants from all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, pregnancy, age, or other lived experience; and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for all positions.

We are proud to be recognised as an employer of choice for women by WORK180.

As a member of the Circle Back Initiative we commit to respond to every applicant

To learn more about our competitive employee benefits, flexibility, other employment opportunities and what to expect from our recruitment process please visit: www.baesystemscareers.com.au

Clearances

As a Defence security clearance is required for this role, applicants must be Australian citizens and either possess or be eligible to obtain and maintain appropriate clearances.

Further information regarding security clearances.