Enterprise Architect

at  IAG New Zealand

Have meaningful impact as an Enterprise Architect
Join the largest insurance group in Australia and New Zealand.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for the right person, with a good attitude who will be a solid team fit with the following skills and experiences: -

• You need to have extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect.
• You have proven experience of working in AI/Gen AI projects or initiatives
• Proven experience of building proof of concept and defining architectural patterns
• Tertiary or equivalent qualification/s in relevant technical fields
• Proven experience of directing the discussion of issues and considerations for adopting an open architecture
• Proven experience of consulting on planning, integrating and migrating enterprise architecture
• Experience with formal architectural methods for eg TOGAF
• Extensive experience in domain / enterprise / solution / technology architecture space in a large organisation, preferably financial industry

ABOUT US

IAG is the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. We’re also a tech and research facility, a hub for climate change experts and a centre of resilience design. We chat over coffee with customers, advocate for them in the corridors of Parliament and back them up in the community when life’s moments hit hardest.
You’ll know our brands – NRMA Insurance, CGU, WFI, ROLLiN’, AMI, NZI, and State Insurance to name a few. Together they turn our IAG purpose of making your world safer into action by helping, supporting ambitions and making insurance accessible.
We celebrate unique viewpoints shaped by life experiences, cultures and passions. We expand careers, genuinely connect with community, lead with a powerful purpose and celebrate what makes you individual.
We’re also guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses and communities. Collaborating on Indigenous-led solutions that enable growth, develop resilience and create meaningful change.
We’re passionate about social issues, walk the talk on sustainability and strive to do more than standard on things that matter, including women in senior leadership, Indigenous empowerment and creating inclusive environments. We’re proud to be an accredited family-friendly workplace and are committed to being a safe and supportive space for all our employees. We do this because we’re ready for you.
All this shows up in what we offer:

• Grow your financial future with 13% superannuation as standard
• Access up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance
• Flexibility through a program called MyFlex - supporting you to live life to the full
• Welcome Back cash bonus when returning from parental leave
• Partner discounts on every day and special occasion items

We’re ready for you. Apply today.
Learn more about who IAG is here.

You are part of an Enterprise Architecture and Governance team whose contribution is to develop strategic architectures that bring to life the IAG strategy and support portfolio alignment to strategy and the enterprise architecture. Some of the key responsibilities that you will perform is :-

• Develop and maintain an Enterprise Architecture that aligns business / technology strategy to portfolio execution.
• Support portfolio concept architecture, x-journey impact assessment and x-portfolio technology interdependencies.
• Provide technical guidance on Gen AI project initiatives. Ideally, you are a hand-on experimenter and have implemented some Gen AI tools and have strong opinions in this space based on “builder experience”.
• Maintain and govern the integrity of the product and technical architecture in collaboration with portfolio managers, broader product & architecture team and platforms.
• Take an “open source” approach to evolving enterprise architecture by providing guardrails and advocating the development of product and enterprise architecture artefacts from broader architecture community and externally as well.
• Maintain oversight of solutions that span multiple journeys to ensure they are coherent and integrated in alignment with endorsed architectures and approaches
• Broker key architecture decisions across within Technology and also within Federated IT landscape to ensure solutions that span multiple journeys / domains are coherent and intregrated in alignment with endorsed architectures and approaches.

This is a full time, permanent role that is open to people based anywhere in Australia and New Zealand.
This role offers flexible working conditions that support a mix of working from home and being in the office.
Application closes 25 April 2024