Head of Design and Architecture Services

Head of Design and Architecture Services

Job Requisition ID: 8655

Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168

Employment Type: Full Time

Posting Date: 13 Jul 2026

About the Service

The Design and Architecture Services Department provides strategic architectural leadership across Monash Health, ensuring digital investments, systems and solutions align with organisational priorities and deliver long-term value.

About The Role

If appointed to this business critical role, you'll provide strategic leadership across enterprise architecture, technology governance, solution design and application portfolio management.

Leading a team of architects and technical specialists, and reporting to the Director, Digital Applications and Architecture, you'll be responsible for defining the future state architecture for one of Australia's largest and most complex health services, ensuring digital investments align with clinical, operational and organisational priorities.

Success in the role will be measured across four key areas:

• Development and delivery of Monash Health's future state architecture and technology roadmaps
• Establishment of architecture governance, standards and design assurance practices
• Application portfolio management, rationalisation and lifecycle planning
• Excellence in stakeholder engagement and development of trusted partnerships across clinical, operational and digital teams

About You

You're a strategic technology leader who sees the bigger picture and brings others on the journey.

Equally comfortable influencing executives, collaborating with clinicians, and working alongside technical teams to solve complex challenges.

In addition, you have a strong background in enterprise architecture, digital transformation and technology strategy and a proven ability to translate organisational objectives into pragmatic roadmaps, standards and governance frameworks.

What you'll bring

• Significant leadership experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, solution architecture or digital transformation within a large, complex organisation
• Strong understanding of modern architecture practices, including cloud platforms, integration patterns, APIs, data ecosystems security, risk and compliance
• Demonstrated experience developing architecture roadmaps, governance frameworks, standards and design assurance practices that support strategic technology investment
• Proven success leading high-performance specialist teams and navigating organisational change within complex or highly regulated environments
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across executive, clinical, operational and technical environments

Why Join Design and Architecture Services at Monash Health

Take advantage of a rare opportunity to shape and influence enterprise-wide technology strategy, drive digital transformation and play a key role in enabling the delivery of safer, connected and more sustainable healthcare.

• Work within a values-driven, purpose-led organisation
• Be part of a connected network of clinical, academic and system leaders
• Help drive innovation, inclusion and better health outcomes

We offer

• The opportunity to make a real impact on patient experience
• A supportive, collaborative team environment
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities
• The chance to be part of Victoria's largest public health service

For a confidential discussion and to explore this opportunity further, please reach out to Victoria Hornidge, Director, Digital Applications, on

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards.