Lead Architect - Data

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The Lead Architect (Data) reports to the Enterprise Architect (Excellence Hubs) and plays an important role within Medibank’s Performance, Architecture & Innovation (PAI) team. This position focuses on strengthening Medibank’s data capabilities across operational, analytical, and governance areas, including how data integrates with other services. The role is accountable for delivering comprehensive architecture and strategic technology planning that aligns with the organisation’s goals.

The Responsibilities:

• Lead the architectural direction for Medibank’s data platforms, ensuring scalability, security, resiliency, and performance across operational data, analytics, data governance, and integration capabilities.
• Develop and maintain architectural roadmaps and patterns for the data domain, aligned to enterprise strategy and delivery priorities.
• Partner across the Architecture Squad and with key stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into actionable data platform strategies and solutions.
• Contribute to the development and tracking of architecture OKRs, KPIs, and scorecards relevant to data platforms.
• Stay informed on global and local trends in data, cloud, integration, and analytics technologies, and assess their relevance to Medibank’s strategic direction.
• Support annual strategic planning by advising on data capability, lifecycle management, and investment prioritisation across business domains.
• Identify and assess emerging technologies that enhance data management, analytics, and integration performance.
• Maintain visibility of innovation opportunities through use-case tracking and contribution to the emerging technology radar.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide architecture governance processes, ensuring data platform decisions align with internal and regulatory frameworks (e.g. APRA CPS 220/230).
• Maintain and evolve standards, policies, and guardrails relevant to data platforms, including data governance, integration, and lifecycle management.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across business and technology teams, ensuring alignment and shared ownership of data platform outcomes.
• Actively contribute to enterprise-wide initiatives, committees, and communities, representing data architecture perspectives.
• Ensure risks related to data platforms are identified, assessed, and managed within Medibank’s risk appetite, with appropriate mitigation plans in place.
• Support compliance with internal risk, behaviour, and control frameworks, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and safe innovation.
• Establish, collaborate and ensure maintenance of artefacts within the domain such as catalogues, registers and diagrams.
• Identify and work with subject matter experts to understand the current knowledge assets for the domain.
• Identify high value knowledge assets for the domain that are critical for achieving successful execution of the domain direction.
• Actively publish key platform assets to secure awareness, buy-in and usage.
• Support cross-squad capacity planning and resource alignment for data platform initiatives.
• Identify and help remove delivery roadblocks, ensuring architecture support is available for critical programs and projects.
• Evaluate technologies and concepts that enhance data-driven customer experience and personalisation across digital channels.
• Ensure data platform architecture supports customer engagement, satisfaction, and retention through secure, scalable, and insightful data solutions.
• Translate strategic objectives into market-ready data capabilities, ensuring timely and effective delivery.
• Apply strategic approaches to optimise cost, value, and performance across the data technology landscape.

About You:

• Ideally 7+ years’ experience delivering business-outcome focused solution and/or architecture within a complex corporate environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture teams (e.g. senior, lead, and solution architects), with a focus on coaching, mentoring, and capability uplift.
• Strong strategic thinking skills with the ability to interpret business strategy and priorities, and translate them into pragmatic architectural advice, roadmaps, and target states.
• Proven ability to deliver target state architectures and roadmaps that incrementally enable strategic technology capabilities and business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of enterprise and solution architecture practices, standards, principles, and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, SAFe), and how to apply them pragmatically to deliver value.
• Experience in business and technology modelling, including capability models, reference architectures, and process design.
• Strong knowledge of application and technology architecture including Software as a Service (SaaS) models, contemporary integration approaches (e.g. SOA, APIs, open data, micro services), information management and data analytics, and corporate applications.
• Proven industry experience in designing and implementing Infrastructure, Cloud services, Networks, Backups and End User Computing including M365.
• Demonstrated ability to stay informed on industry and technology trends and assess their relevance to business needs.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with a proven ability to build effective relationships with senior business and technology leaders.
• Skilled in facilitating workshops and architectural discussions with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience developing and maintaining architecture standards, guidelines, and guardrails.
• Excellent strategic thinker that can interpret business strategy and priorities, and can deliver sound, pragmatic architectural advice, recommendations and roadmaps to enable business strategy execution
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage effective relationships with senior business and technology leaders
• Experience in the insurance and/or health and wellbeing industry would be great, particularly with:
  • Data, including data modelling, governance, and analytics platforms
  • Cloud-native services and platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Business Intelligence software platforms (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI)
  • Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Resource planning platforms (e.g. Salesforce, SAP, Dynamics)
  • Identity platforms (e.g. Auth0, Microsoft Entra)
  • Application security, OAuth, and multi-factor authentication
  • Middleware and integration approaches with various web services and message exchanges
• Knowledge of financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management
• Experience working within in ASX listed business.

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