Principal Architect Finance

Opportunity
12-month contract with option to keep extending based in either Melbourne, Geelong, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, or Adelaide for a large Commonwealth department.

Career defining opportunity to architecturally drive the uplift of a large, high profile federal Agency's finance systems roadmap and transformation to future state. The department currently leverages SAP ECC.60 financials in a shared services model with another department, and is looking to drive a fit-for-purpose direct implementation.

Great opportunity for a Principal, Lead or Domain Architect to looking after the Agency's core corporate finance systems. This is an opportunity to join the Architecture practice and have input into the Enterprise ICT roadmap, working within a nationally distributed team. This is a large, federated environment with tier-1 vendors and a team following Agile SAFe methodology.

Hybrid work model on offer working from office and home, with a high degree of flexibility offered for the successful candidate.

This senior-level opportunity will shape and own the strategy, domain architecture and roadmap, drive vendor selection via Commonwealth procurement rules, engage with SI's and/or direct resources to deliver a two-plus year finance systems transformation (legacy SAP ECC6.0). You'll provide architectural advice and leadership across program teams through to operational transition.

Ability to engage equally well with finance business stakeholders (CFO level), Executive Steer Co (C' suite and SES) and technology teams is essential for success.

A tier-1 consulting background into federal or state government or enterprise level national organisation will highly regarded, and deep expertise in designing and driving finance systems transformations is a must.

Duties

• Deliver high-quality solution architecture roadmaps and solutions
• Ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture and the strategic IT roadmap
• Engage with the business to understand strategic objectives and requirements.
• Engage with the enterprise architects, solution leads, business representatives, development teams, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure solution alignment across domains.
• Provide technical guidance during project delivery
• Ownership and accountability for leading and producing the delivery of coherent technical solutions across the finance domain
• Represent the domain throughout all Architecture Governance Councils and Forums.

Success Measures

• Minimum 8 years of Architecture experience with specific functional and technical expertise in finance systems implementations and finance business processes
• Experience leading the implementation of complex ERP finance platforms - technically agnostic having evaluated and implemented more than one (eg. SAP S4/HANA, Oracle e-Business, Dynamics, Workday etc)
• Experience driving evaluation of vendors and SI options, vendor selection and onboarding within government procurement rules
• Background in Lead/Principal or Domain Architecture, owning the finance domain
• Excellent listening, communication and stakeholder management skills, must be able to translate business capability into technical requirements.
• Experience balancing project and program, project and organisational goals, as well as tactical and strategic drivers.
• Act as the business' conduit into the ICT function for design and requirements resolution.
• Bachelor or higher in Information Technology or equivalent tertiary qualification
• TOGAF / ZACHMAN certified or equivalent IT architectural qualification
• Azure or AWS public cloud experience
• SAFe Agile preferred
• Industry experience across health or insurance sectors, finance, claims systems, government, or other related industries with large customer base.

Candidates with tier-1 or consulting experience into federal/state government and understanding of government procurement rules would be highly regarded.

NOTE: The successful candidate will need to be an Australian Citizen and may be required to secure AGSVA Baseline clearance.

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Kylie.McManus@talentinternational.com // 0408 388 680