Job Description:

St Vincent’s Health Australia is undertaking a significant transformation of its foundational digital and network platforms to support a growing, highly connected, and increasingly digital healthcare environment.

The Enterprise Network Architect is the senior technical authority and delegated Design Authority for network architecture across St Vincent’s Health Australia. This role is accountable for defining, governing and evolving the future-state enterprise network architecture supporting public hospitals, private hospitals, aged care, virtual health and research environments.

This position plays a critical role in ensuring Tier 0 network services are designed to meet the highest standards of resilience, security, scalability and clinical safety. The role shapes architectural direction across LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity and network security, ensuring alignment with SVHA’s digital strategy, clinical priorities and regulatory obligations.

Reporting to the Head of Networks & Communications, the Enterprise Network Architect operates with a high degree of autonomy and influence, providing architectural leadership across a portfolio of major capital programs and strategic initiatives. The role spans the full lifecycle from enterprise strategy and business case development through to detailed design, delivery assurance and transition to operations.

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

Experience, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Personal Attributes

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
ITIL v4 v5 Foundation certification or equivalent service management knowledge
Familiarity with ITIL frameworks, risk and compliance obligations (e.g., ISO27001, SOCI, Essential Eight), and vendor governance models.

Desirable

Architecture certifications (e.g. TOGAF).
Advanced security or cloud certifications.
Postgraduate qualifications in IT or systems architecture.
Microsoft certifications: MS-700 (Managing Microsoft Teams), AZ-700 (Designing and Implementing Azure Networking)
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – relevant due to intersection with network security.
Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) or equivalent for wireless infrastructure.
Cisco, MS Teams and Genesys certifications

Closing Date:

6 April 2026 11:59pm

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au

View Reconciliation Action Plan