Enterprise Architect

Steadfast is built on a simple belief: none of us are as good as all of us. It shapes how we work, how we support our brokers and partners, and how we show up for each other every day.

Our Together values guide everything we do, we listen, we collaborate, we include, and we back each other to succeed. As Australia's largest general insurance broker network, we help businesses and communities feel supported, protected and confident in the moments that matter. When you join Steadfast, you become part of a team where your ideas are welcomed, your wellbeing matters, and your growth is genuinely encouraged.

Your new role at Steadfast

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect who enjoys shaping technology direction, simplifying complexity and creating practical roadmaps that support long-term business value. You will bring curiosity, commercial judgement and a collaborative mindset, along with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and guide technology decisions across a complex organisation.

You will work closely with executive stakeholders, business leaders, the Enterprise Project Management Office, Architecture, Cyber Security, Data, Platform and Delivery teams to define target-state architecture, establish enterprise standards and guide investment decisions across platforms, data, integration, security and infrastructure.

This is a senior enterprise-level role where you will set the architecture direction and guardrails that guide project and solution architecture across the organisation. You will play a key role in ensuring technology choices support business strategy, reduce complexity, optimise cost and create long-term enterprise value.

What your days may look like

You may start your morning working with senior stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, reviewing technology investment options or helping shape architecture direction for a major transformation program.

By midday, you could be assessing architecture trade-offs across cost, risk, value, security and delivery impact, or working with architects and delivery teams to define practical roadmaps that bring the target-state architecture to life.

In the afternoon, you might be advising on AI and GenAI adoption, contributing to governance forums, reviewing architecture decision records or mentoring solution, data and platform architects to lift consistency and maturity across the function.

No two days look the same, but every day you will be helping create clarity, reduce complexity and guide technology decisions that have long-term impact across Steadfast.

The work you will lead and shape

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Create enterprise architecture direction, including principles, standards, reference models and target-state architecture.
• Collaborate with executives, business leaders, architects, technology teams and delivery partners to shape strategic initiatives.
• Challenge technology choices and investment options to ensure they balance cost, risk, value, security and long-term enterprise outcomes.
• Deliver practical multi-year roadmaps, transition plans and architecture guardrails that support business strategy and delivery planning.
• Support architects and project teams with clear architecture direction, reusable patterns and consistent decision-making.

You may also:

• Develop enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, methods and governance practices.
• Maintain architecture principles, target-state views, roadmaps and decision records.
• Build enterprise architecture maturity across business, data, application and technology domains.Lead platform rationalisation, cost optimisation, reuse and simplification across the technology landscape.
• Shape architecture guardrails for AI and GenAI adoption, including data controls, responsible use, security and integration patterns.
• Prepare architecture recommendations, investment assessments and strategic guidance for senior stakeholders.
• Mentor solution, data and platform architects to improve architecture quality and consistency.

What You will Bring

• Proven experience owning enterprise architecture direction across a complex organisation.
• Strong experience across business, data, application and technology architecture domains.
• Confidence translating business strategy into practical target-state architecture, transition roadmaps and investment recommendations.
• Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to balance cost, value, risk, delivery impact and long-term technology outcomes.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and advising on complex architecture decisions.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, data governance, analytics enablement and AI-ready technology foundations.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks, governance practices, business capability modelling and architecture decision records.
• Knowledge of cloud, SaaS, integration, platform and infrastructure strategy.
• Ability to resolve complex architecture trade-offs and provide clear, practical direction.
• Experience mentoring architects and improving architecture maturity, methods and ways of working.
• Experience in a complex, multi-business or conglomerate environment will be highly regarded.
• Experience uplifting enterprise architecture capability from a low maturity state will also be highly regarded.

If you are not sure you meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply, we value potential and diverse experiences.

Why Steadfast?

You will join a team that genuinely believes we are stronger together. You will be supported by leaders who want you to grow, colleagues who value your perspective, and a culture built on respect, inclusion and shared success. Here, your contribution matters and your voice is heard.

Our benefits program is built to support you through the moments that matter most, whether you're at work, at home, or anywhere life takes you. This includes generous leave entitlements, flexible work options, wellbeing resources, an employee assistance program and a range of insurance offerings that help you feel supported and protected. You will also have access to meaningful learning and development opportunities that help you build capability, explore new ideas and grow your career with confidence.

Most importantly, you will be joining a workplace where people feel safe to be themselves. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences because we know that when we bring different perspectives together, we do our best work and create a place where everyone can thrive.

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