Principal Information Technology Architect – Permanent - Perth
Step into a pivotal and extendable 12-month fixed term with opportunity as Principal Technology Architect, where you’ll provide senior technical leadership across Western Power’s information technology landscape.
In this role, you’ll shape and guide IT solution architectures that enable business capabilities across applications, integration, data, and platforms. You’ll ensure solutions are robust, secure, scalable, and aligned to technology strategy and ready to delivery on our business partner priorities.
Cloud is a key enabler of Western Power’s technology and works alongside substantial private cloud, networking, security, SaaS, PaaS and Operational Technology. You’ll be cloud fluent and working closely with peer architects in cyber and cloud to ensure IT solutions operate effectively as integrated hybrid platforms.
You’ll form part of a Technology Infrastructure Platform team that act as a trusted design authority, FinOps and Cloud Centres of Excellence uplifting our Platforms Capabilities.
Your Role in Action
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Provide senior architecture leadership across the information technology domains, formulating the roadmap and the program that powers Western Power’s Technology Infrastructure Platforms.
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Lead the design of IT solutions that meet business and operational requirements, ensuring alignment to technology standards, and principles.
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Collaborate closely with Cloud, Infrastructure, Security, and Control Systems Architects to ensure end to end solution coherence across on premise, hybrid, and cloud environments.
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Ensure IT solutions appropriately leverage cloud capabilities, while respecting architectural boundaries, operational constraints, and security requirements.
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Define and maintain IT reference architectures, patterns, and standards to support consistent, high quality solution design.