As the Enterprise Architect, you will play a critical role in enabling RAC to deliver on it’s purpose by ensuring the organisation’s capabilities, structures, processes and technologies are strategically aligned and future fit.
Through enterprise-wide collaboration and governance, you will act as a translator of RAC’s business strategy into actionable architectural blueprints and roadmaps that will drive organisational transformation. This role bridges the gap between strategic intent and operational execution, aligning business capabilities, operating models and technology to deliver sustainable competitive advantage.
This role will initially be offered as a two-year maximum-term opportunity.
What will you be doing?
- Leading the development and execution of RAC’s enterprise architecture strategy and mandate, ensuring alignment with strategic direction and regulatory obligations.
- Creating and maintaining the documentation, policies and protocols supporting architectural models, standards and guiding principles whilst acting as a trusted advisor on strategic planning, investment prioritisation and risk management.
- Defining enterprise architecture principles and facilitating governance forums to guide decision-making, drive alignment, and ensure compliance across the organisation.
- Developing and maintaining the business capability model in collaboration with stakeholders, embedding it into strategic planning and investment decisions.
- Designing and evolving enterprise-wide architecture frameworks across business processes, data, infrastructure and technology, with governance, reviews and advisory support to ensure adherence.
- Collaborating with high-performing business and technology matrix teams on the end-to-end technology landscape, evaluate emerging trends solutions that drive innovation, agility and operational excellence.
- Building influential relationships and acting as a trusted advisor to executives on, investment prioritisation, sequencing of key initiatives and risk management.
What are we looking for in you?
- Proven experience translating organisational strategy into enterprise-wide capability and architecture plans, applying and evolving architecture frameworks, leading governance forums, and ensuring alignment with regulatory and risk requirements within complex, regulated environments.
- Demonstrated experience developing and embedding business capability models to inform strategic planning, prioritisation and investment decisions.
- Strong experience coordinating and sequencing enterprise-wide initiatives, ensuring architecture is embedded across project and change delivery.
- Proven understanding of how applications, cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, integration and emerging technologies come together to enable better business outcomes.
- Experience collaborating with, and influencing high-performing, matrixed teams.
- Broad technical capability across enterprise architecture domains (infrastructure, applications, data, security), with the ability to articulate complex concepts clearly to drive understanding and buy-in.
- A tertiary qualification in technology, business, engineering or a related discipline, complemented by enterprise architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF, CEAP, Zachman).
What can we offer you?
- Variety across multiple businesses, partnering closely with senior leaders to solve complex business problems to translate strategy into practical, executable outcomes.
- A genuine opportunity to define, implement and operationalise architecture across strategy, governance and delivery—not just advisory.
- Direct impact on prioritisation, funding and sequencing of major initiatives through capability modelling and strategic planning.
- Collaborate on decisions across applications, infrastructure, data and security to enable scalable, modern and integrated platforms.
- Ensure architecture is embedded in a pragmatic way across all major programs and change initiatives, creating tangible business impact.
- Benefit from flexible and hybrid work arrangements that support wellbeing and performance.
- Join an organisation committed to community impact and sustainability creating a better Western Australia.
About RAC
RAC WA is a member-focused organisation dedicated to serving the Western Australian community. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable, and connected future for all Western Australians.
RAC values inclusivity, diversity, and flexibility in the workplace. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome everyone. For assistance during the application process, contact Jason.crooks@rac.com.au. #LI-JC1
