Lead Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

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• Define our enterprise IT systems architecture
• Develop a holistic view of the QBE’s Strategy
• Significant EA exposure within global businesses

Lead Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

Our business, our culture

QBE Insurance Australia is part of one of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance groups with operations in 37 countries around the world. 

We are currently recruiting for a Lead Enterprise Infrastructure Architect to define our enterprise IT systems architecture, by translating business strategy and requirements, whilst adhering to architecture and security standards.

Responsible for developing and managing a holistic view of the QBE’s Strategy/Roadmaps, Reference Architecture and Frameworks, Standards, processes, and governance around IT Services and technology assets, you will have significant EA exposure within large, global businesses.

We offer you a dynamic workplace culture, one that values and leverages the unique ideas, capabilities and experiences you bring irrespective of where you are in the world. We believe this strengthens our ability to deliver on our business goals, particularly as it relates to innovation, growth and our focus on customers.

The opportunity

• Contribute to the development &maintenance of Global IT architectural standards
• Drive and integrate new technologies to improve business processes & decision-making
• Partner with company innovation centre to assist in experiments and identifying alignment to architecture and business.
• Recommend and participate in the analysis, evaluation and development of enterprise long term strategic and operating plans
• Contribute to and drive the global standard product/services solution selection
• Liaise among third-party solution developers and internal key stakeholders
• Communicate QBEs enterprise architecture to relevant IT and business stakeholders
• Provide firm-wide thought leadership around leveraging assets to the larger long-term benefit of the enterprise.
• Collaborate with all relevant parties to review the objectives and constraints of each solution and determine conformance with the EA.
• Recommend the most suitable technical architecture & define solution at high level
• Identify and recommend areas appropriate for further study and participate in any projects required to thoroughly investigate architectural possibilities and strengthen arguments for their adoption.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of QBEs business and IT strategies
• Support the development of QBE’s IT strategy and the development of QBEs future enterprise architecture state
• Manage QBE’s enterprise architecture including the current status of processes, data, applications and infrastructure to support QBE.
• Identify new or technology improvement opportunities across QBE
• Manage budgeted resources by anticipating expenditures, forecasting resource needs/costs and properly accounting for expenses
• Contribute to a positive environment by demonstrating cultural expectations and adopting QBE values
   

What does success look like?

• Significant experience in strategic/enterprise architecture in large, global organisations
• Experience of taking accountability for conceptual thinking & practical implementation
• Advanced working knowledge of technology to control and safeguard the collection, organisation, structure, processing and delivery of data
• Understand business strategy, analyse business processes, and propose technical information-based solutions to support the enterprise.
• Working knowledge of configuration and adaptation, deployment, design patterns, risk management and scalability.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture concepts and tools.
• Cloud Architecture and how applications/data can be managed in the cloud as well as integration patterns to support hybrid implementation patterns
• Demonstrated practice of keeping current with new and emerging tools and technologies relevant to Enterprise Architecture.
• Effectively present information to influence organizational leaders and key stakeholders.
• Exposure to conducting gap analysis of current state and desired future state
• The ability to use logic and reason to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• Significant collaboration & senior stakeholder management with people at all levels
• Creativity and alternative, open thinking to generate and support new or better ways of doing things.

Benefits?

At QBE, you will be provided with a competitive remuneration structure and benefits, in an environment that offers support, and encourages career development and learning.

We offer a range of benefits and discounts including:

• Paid Parental leave (inclusive of paid superannuation during this time)
• Secondment opportunities
• Employee assistance programme
• Paid volunteer leave
• Purchased leave
• Product discounts

Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

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