Enterprise Network Architect

Job Description:

St Vincents 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 Vincents 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 SVHAs 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 SVHAs 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 Vincents 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).
• Bachelors 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:

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincents 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:// or get in contact at

View Reconciliation Action Plan

Code of Conduct:

View Code of Conduct