Business Specialist
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Business Specialist
Melbourne City, Victoria

Job Summary

 

Role Overview

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the organization's enterprise architecture landscape to ensure alignment between business strategy, digital transformation objectives, and technology investments. The role drives architecture governance, technology roadmaps, capability planning, and strategic transformation initiatives leveraging the TOGAF framework and industry best practices.

The architect acts as a trusted advisor to business leadership, solution architects, infrastructure teams, security teams, application owners, and project stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Strategy

  • Define and maintain Enterprise Architecture vision, principles, standards, and policies.
  • Develop current-state, target-state, and transition-state architecture models.
  • Align IT strategy with business goals and transformation initiatives.
  • Establish enterprise technology roadmap and modernization plans.
  • Drive business capability mapping and value stream analysis.

Architecture Governance

  • Implement and govern architecture review processes.
  • Conduct architecture assessments and compliance reviews.
  • Define architecture standards, reference models, and reusable design patterns.
  • Ensure adherence to EA governance frameworks and regulatory requirements.
  • Lead Architecture Review Boards (ARB).

Business & Digital Transformation

  • Support organization-wide digital transformation initiatives.
  • Identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and innovation.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
  • Enable cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization, and application rationalization.

Technology Portfolio Management

  • Assess application, infrastructure, and data portfolios.
  • Drive technology standardization and rationalization initiatives.
  • Develop investment roadmaps and technology lifecycle strategies.
  • Reduce technical debt through strategic architecture planning.

Stakeholder Management

  • Collaborate with business executives and technology leadership.
  • Present architectural recommendations to senior management.
  • Translate business requirements into enterprise-level technology strategies.
  • Provide executive-level architecture guidance and decision support.

Risk & Security Alignment

  • Ensure security-by-design principles are embedded into architecture.
  • Align with Cyber Security, Risk Management, and Compliance teams.
  • Identify architecture risks and establish mitigation strategies.
  • Support Zero Trust and enterprise security initiatives.

Required Technical Skills

Enterprise Architecture

  • TOGAF 9.x / TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner Certification
  • Enterprise Architecture frameworks
  • Architecture governance methodologies
  • Capability-based planning
  • Business architecture modeling

 

TOGAF-Specific Responsibilities

  • Utilize TOGAF ADM (Architecture Development Method) across architecture lifecycle phases.
  • Develop Architecture Vision, Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application Architecture, and Technology Architecture.
  • Create Architecture Repository and Architecture Building Blocks (ABB).
  • Manage transition architectures and implementation roadmaps.
  • Establish architecture governance consistent with TOGAF standards.

Certifications (Mandatory)

  • TOGAF Certified (Version 9.2 / TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner)

 

Key Responsibilities

 

Role Overview

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the organization's enterprise architecture landscape to ensure alignment between business strategy, digital transformation objectives, and technology investments. The role drives architecture governance, technology roadmaps, capability planning, and strategic transformation initiatives leveraging the TOGAF framework and industry best practices.

The architect acts as a trusted advisor to business leadership, solution architects, infrastructure teams, security teams, application owners, and project stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Strategy

  • Define and maintain Enterprise Architecture vision, principles, standards, and policies.
  • Develop current-state, target-state, and transition-state architecture models.
  • Align IT strategy with business goals and transformation initiatives.
  • Establish enterprise technology roadmap and modernization plans.
  • Drive business capability mapping and value stream analysis.

Architecture Governance

  • Implement and govern architecture review processes.
  • Conduct architecture assessments and compliance reviews.
  • Define architecture standards, reference models, and reusable design patterns.
  • Ensure adherence to EA governance frameworks and regulatory requirements.
  • Lead Architecture Review Boards (ARB).

Business & Digital Transformation

  • Support organization-wide digital transformation initiatives.
  • Identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and innovation.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
  • Enable cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization, and application rationalization.

Technology Portfolio Management

  • Assess application, infrastructure, and data portfolios.
  • Drive technology standardization and rationalization initiatives.
  • Develop investment roadmaps and technology lifecycle strategies.
  • Reduce technical debt through strategic architecture planning.

Stakeholder Management

  • Collaborate with business executives and technology leadership.
  • Present architectural recommendations to senior management.
  • Translate business requirements into enterprise-level technology strategies.
  • Provide executive-level architecture guidance and decision support.

Risk & Security Alignment

  • Ensure security-by-design principles are embedded into architecture.
  • Align with Cyber Security, Risk Management, and Compliance teams.
  • Identify architecture risks and establish mitigation strategies.
  • Support Zero Trust and enterprise security initiatives.

Required Technical Skills

Enterprise Architecture

  • TOGAF 9.x / TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner Certification
  • Enterprise Architecture frameworks
  • Architecture governance methodologies
  • Capability-based planning
  • Business architecture modeling

 

TOGAF-Specific Responsibilities

  • Utilize TOGAF ADM (Architecture Development Method) across architecture lifecycle phases.
  • Develop Architecture Vision, Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application Architecture, and Technology Architecture.
  • Create Architecture Repository and Architecture Building Blocks (ABB).
  • Manage transition architectures and implementation roadmaps.
  • Establish architecture governance consistent with TOGAF standards.

Certifications (Mandatory)

  • TOGAF Certified (Version 9.2 / TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner)

 

Skill Requirements

 

Role Overview

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the organization's enterprise architecture landscape to ensure alignment between business strategy, digital transformation objectives, and technology investments. The role drives architecture governance, technology roadmaps, capability planning, and strategic transformation initiatives leveraging the TOGAF framework and industry best practices.

The architect acts as a trusted advisor to business leadership, solution architects, infrastructure teams, security teams, application owners, and project stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Strategy

  • Define and maintain Enterprise Architecture vision, principles, standards, and policies.
  • Develop current-state, target-state, and transition-state architecture models.
  • Align IT strategy with business goals and transformation initiatives.
  • Establish enterprise technology roadmap and modernization plans.
  • Drive business capability mapping and value stream analysis.

Architecture Governance

  • Implement and govern architecture review processes.
  • Conduct architecture assessments and compliance reviews.
  • Define architecture standards, reference models, and reusable design patterns.
  • Ensure adherence to EA governance frameworks and regulatory requirements.
  • Lead Architecture Review Boards (ARB).

Business & Digital Transformation

  • Support organization-wide digital transformation initiatives.
  • Identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and innovation.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
  • Enable cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization, and application rationalization.

Technology Portfolio Management

  • Assess application, infrastructure, and data portfolios.
  • Drive technology standardization and rationalization initiatives.
  • Develop investment roadmaps and technology lifecycle strategies.
  • Reduce technical debt through strategic architecture planning.

Stakeholder Management

  • Collaborate with business executives and technology leadership.
  • Present architectural recommendations to senior management.
  • Translate business requirements into enterprise-level technology strategies.
  • Provide executive-level architecture guidance and decision support.

Risk & Security Alignment

  • Ensure security-by-design principles are embedded into architecture.
  • Align with Cyber Security, Risk Management, and Compliance teams.
  • Identify architecture risks and establish mitigation strategies.
  • Support Zero Trust and enterprise security initiatives.

Required Technical Skills

Enterprise Architecture

  • TOGAF 9.x / TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner Certification
  • Enterprise Architecture frameworks
  • Architecture governance methodologies
  • Capability-based planning
  • Business architecture modeling

 

TOGAF-Specific Responsibilities

  • Utilize TOGAF ADM (Architecture Development Method) across architecture lifecycle phases.
  • Develop Architecture Vision, Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application Architecture, and Technology Architecture.
  • Create Architecture Repository and Architecture Building Blocks (ABB).
  • Manage transition architectures and implementation roadmaps.
  • Establish architecture governance consistent with TOGAF standards.

Certifications (Mandatory)

  • TOGAF Certified (Version 9.2 / TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner)

 

Other Requirements

 

Role Overview

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the organization's enterprise architecture landscape to ensure alignment between business strategy, digital transformation objectives, and technology investments. The role drives architecture governance, technology roadmaps, capability planning, and strategic transformation initiatives leveraging the TOGAF framework and industry best practices.

The architect acts as a trusted advisor to business leadership, solution architects, infrastructure teams, security teams, application owners, and project stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Strategy

  • Define and maintain Enterprise Architecture vision, principles, standards, and policies.
  • Develop current-state, target-state, and transition-state architecture models.
  • Align IT strategy with business goals and transformation initiatives.
  • Establish enterprise technology roadmap and modernization plans.
  • Drive business capability mapping and value stream analysis.

Architecture Governance

  • Implement and govern architecture review processes.
  • Conduct architecture assessments and compliance reviews.
  • Define architecture standards, reference models, and reusable design patterns.
  • Ensure adherence to EA governance frameworks and regulatory requirements.
  • Lead Architecture Review Boards (ARB).

Business & Digital Transformation

  • Support organization-wide digital transformation initiatives.
  • Identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and innovation.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
  • Enable cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization, and application rationalization.

Technology Portfolio Management

  • Assess application, infrastructure, and data portfolios.
  • Drive technology standardization and rationalization initiatives.
  • Develop investment roadmaps and technology lifecycle strategies.
  • Reduce technical debt through strategic architecture planning.

Stakeholder Management

  • Collaborate with business executives and technology leadership.
  • Present architectural recommendations to senior management.
  • Translate business requirements into enterprise-level technology strategies.
  • Provide executive-level architecture guidance and decision support.

Risk & Security Alignment

  • Ensure security-by-design principles are embedded into architecture.
  • Align with Cyber Security, Risk Management, and Compliance teams.
  • Identify architecture risks and establish mitigation strategies.
  • Support Zero Trust and enterprise security initiatives.

Required Technical Skills

Enterprise Architecture

  • TOGAF 9.x / TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner Certification
  • Enterprise Architecture frameworks
  • Architecture governance methodologies
  • Capability-based planning
  • Business architecture modeling

 

TOGAF-Specific Responsibilities

  • Utilize TOGAF ADM (Architecture Development Method) across architecture lifecycle phases.
  • Develop Architecture Vision, Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application Architecture, and Technology Architecture.
  • Create Architecture Repository and Architecture Building Blocks (ABB).
  • Manage transition architectures and implementation roadmaps.
  • Establish architecture governance consistent with TOGAF standards.

Certifications (Mandatory)

  • TOGAF Certified (Version 9.2 / TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner)

 
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Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 230,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending September 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.