Enterprise Network Architect

Job Description: Better and fairer care. Always.

St Vincent's has been a leader in Australia's health and aged care landscape for more than 165 years. Since our founders, the Sisters of Charity, opened our first hospital in 1857, our services and nearly 30,000 people have been behind some of Australia's most important medical breakthroughs. We are a microcosm of Australia's health and aged care system and are uniquely positioned to lead and respond to our rapidly changing environment.

We are looking for a special kind of person - a St Vincent's kind of person. Someone who puts excellence, compassion, connection and caring for other people at the heart of everything they do.

Reporting directly to the Head of Networks & Communications, the Enterprise Network Architect will be the senior technical authority and delegated Design Authority for network architecture across St Vincent's.

While the initial focus supports a critical 24-month roadmap design project, this role is intended to be ongoing to govern our evolving digital landscape. You will be based in any of our Group Head Offices in Sydney, Brisbane, or Melbourne on a hybrid working arrangement - 3 days a week in the office and 2 days working from home.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Act as the lead for network architecture, owning enterprise principles, standards, and multi-year roadmaps aligned with clinical and digital strategies.
• Provide architectural leadership for a multimillion-dollar portfolio, including hospital redevelopments, SD-WAN uplift, and cloud connectivity.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CTO and D&T leadership, ensuring network designs support patient safety and clinician workflows.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations and cybersecurity frameworks while driving remediation of technical debt.
• Evaluate emerging technologies like SASE and AI-driven operations to modernise platforms across hospitals and aged care.

Things that work for us:

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise network architecture or senior engineering within complex, multi-site environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing large-scale LAN, WAN, Wi Fi, and SD WAN architectures.
• Deep understanding of network security, including zero trust principles and micro segmentation.
• Professional certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, or Azure Networking AZ 700.
• A collaborative mindset with the ability to translate clinical requirements into resilient technical designs.

Things that work for you:

• Ability to visibly see your impact on the business and its service
• Competitive salary packaging options
• Discounted private health insurance
• Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families
• Access to the Fitness Passport (FP)

At St Vincent's we value inclusivity and diversity and acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, fair and impartial and invites people from all backgrounds to join us.

Pre Employment Checks

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all required pre employment checks, including relevant immunisations.

Equal Opportunity

We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

How To Apply

Please submit your application via the Apply button, include your resume and a brief cover letter outlining your experience and suitability.

Respectfully, no recruitment agencies.

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AUTHORITY

• Acts as the enterprise Design Authority for network architecture, with delegated decision rights across all major network initiatives and platforms.
• Owns and governs enterprise network principles, standards, reference architectures and target state designs.
• Defines and maintains multi year network roadmaps aligned to SVHA's digital, clinical and infrastructure strategies.
• Provides final architectural sign off for complex network designs, new site developments and major uplift programs.
• Embeds security by design, resilience and zero trust principles into all architectural outcomes.

ENTERPRISE PROGRAM & PROJECT ENGAGEMENT

• Provides architectural leadership across a multimillion dollar portfolio of enterprise programs including NetMod, hospital redevelopments, cloud and data centre connectivity, Wi Fi and SD WAN uplift, and virtual health expansion.
• Partners with program directors, project managers and delivery leads to translate strategic intent into implementable, supportable designs.
• Leads architectural options analysis, cost modelling, risk assessment and technical decision making for business cases and investment proposals.
• Reviews and assures low level designs produced by vendors and delivery teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Ensures solutions are operationally ready through structured service transition, documentation, runbooks and knowledge transfer.

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT & INFLUENCE

• Acts as a trusted advisor to the Head of Networks & Communications, CTO, D&T leadership team and executive sponsors.
• Engages with hospital executives, clinical leaders and operational stakeholders to ensure network designs support patient safety, clinician workflows and service continuity.
• Collaborates across Cybersecurity, Cloud, Infrastructure, EUC and Application platforms to deliver integrated, end to end solutions.
• Provides functional leadership, mentoring and architectural guidance to network engineers and technical teams across programs.

GOVERNANCE, RISK & COMPLIANCE

• Ensures network architectures comply with healthcare regulations, privacy obligations and cyber security frameworks including SOCI, ISO27001 and Essential Eight.
• Chairs or contributes to architecture review boards, design authorities and technology governance forums.
• Identifies enterprise level architectural risk, technical debt and obsolescence, driving remediation strategies and investment priorities.

OPERATIONS & SERVICE ALIGNMENT

• Works in close partnership with the Network Operations Manager to ensure architectural designs are operable, resilient and supportable in a 24/7 healthcare environment.
• Defines operational models, monitoring requirements, support boundaries and lifecycle considerations within all designs.
• Participates in design reviews, service transition and post implementation reviews to uplift service maturity.
• Provides senior level escalation support for complex or systemic network issues requiring architectural intervention.

INNOVATION & FUTURE READINESS

• Evaluates emerging networking technologies and industry trends including SD WAN evolution, SASE, zero trust networking, automation and AI driven operations.
• Identifies opportunities to simplify, standardise and modernise network platforms across hospitals, aged care and virtual health environments.
• Leads proofs of concept and pilot initiatives to safely test new technologies in clinically sensitive settings.

PROCESS & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

• Defines architectural success measures and contributes to KPIs related to resilience, scalability, performance, security posture and technical debt reduction.
• Drives continuous improvement through architectural reviews, lessons learned and refinement of design patterns.

CULTURE & VALUES ALIGNMENT

• Champions St Vincent's mission and values, embedding compassion, integrity, justice and excellence into technology design decisions.
• Ensures patient safety, clinician experience and equity of access are central to all network architecture outcomes.

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• 10+ years' experience in enterprise network architecture or senior network engineering roles within complex, multi site environments.
• Demonstrated accountability for enterprise wide network architecture decisions and design governance.
• Proven experience designing large scale LAN, WAN, Wi Fi, SD WAN and hybrid cloud connectivity architectures.
• Deep understanding of network security architecture including segmentation, zero trust principles, NAC and integration with cyber security controls.
• Strong experience supporting major capital programs through architectural leadership and assurance.
• Ability to translate clinical and business requirements into robust, scalable and resilient technical designs.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influence skills across executive, clinical and technical audiences.
• Experience operating in regulated, high availability environments such as healthcare, utilities or critical infrastructure.

Desirable

• Healthcare, hospital or aged care experience
• Experience with network automation, orchestration and Infrastructure as Code.
• Public cloud networking expertise (Azure, AWS, ExpressRoute).
• Experience operating within formal enterprise architecture frameworks.
• An understanding of project methodology standards such as PRINCE2, Agile or PMBOK within large and complex organisations

Minimum Education Requirements

Essential

• Professional certifications in networking or telecommunications (e.g., CCNP, CCIE, CWNP, Azure Networking, Fortinet NSE).
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, business, or related discipline . click apply for full job details