Enterprise Architect Sydney

LGT is the largest Private Banking and Asset Management group in the world to be owned by an entrepreneurial family. As the family office of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, we have years of experience in the management of sizeable sums of assets.

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to join our Technology team on a full-time permanent basis.

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will shape and maintain LGT Wealth Management Australia’s enterprise technology architecture so it supports business strategy, operating priorities and long-term change. You will define target-state architecture and transition roadmaps across business capabilities, applications, software, data, integration, security, cloud and infrastructure, including how the core wealth platform and wider ecosystem evolve together.

Your responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, target states and transition roadmaps aligned with business strategy direction.

• Maintain decision-useful views of business capabilities, applications, technologies, information domains, integrations and critical service dependencies.

• Assess the current technology landscape and drive simplification, modernisation, reuse and retirement, making duplication, lifecycle risk and architectural debt visible.

• Translate strategic priorities into a rolling enterprise technology roadmap and evidence-based recommendations on build, buy, partner, reuse and retire decisions.

• Engage from ideation and discovery to identify cross-initiative dependencies, constraints and transition impacts before material delivery commitments are made.

• Provide proportionate architecture assurance for material initiatives and facilitate architecture reviews, decisions and time-bound exceptions through to closure.

• Set enterprise guardrails and reusable patterns across modular software, data, APIs, events, integration, identity, cloud, infrastructure, security, resilience and observability.

• Partner with the wider technology team to support their ways of working, recognising current practical engineering standards and paved-road delivery patterns to support your plans.

• Maintain the technology landscape covering the core wealth management platform and enterprise systems to ensure clear boundaries with client channels, data, integration, automation, Group and third-party platforms.

• Partner with data, security, risk, service and business owners so architecture decisions address information governance, privacy, regulatory obligations, operational viability and business continuity.

• Provide enterprise architecture assessments to support portfolio prioritisation and investment planning, evaluating strategic alignment, reuse opportunities, total cost of ownership, lifecycle position, and architecture-related concentration, exit and operational risks.

• Build effective relationships with Australian, APAC and LGT Group stakeholders to maximise reuse while ensuring local regulatory, market and operational requirements are explicit.

• Use incidents, problems, audit findings, vendor direction and delivery lessons to improve target architectures, standards and investment priorities.

• Act as a trusted adviser to business and technology stakeholders, translating business strategy into clear architectural implications and enabling well-informed decisions by articulating options, trade-offs, risks and recommendations.

Your skills, experience and qualifications

• Substantial enterprise architecture experience, including shaping technology strategy, target states and transition roadmaps in a complex, regulated or financial-services environment.

• Broad architecture capability across business, application, software, data, integration, security, cloud and infrastructure, with sufficient technical depth to challenge designs and guide trade-offs.

• Experience with a core banking or wealth management platform, including capability boundaries, application and integration architecture, data, release lifecycle and operational support.

• Prior hands-on software engineering experience, with proficiency in at least one modern general-purpose programming language and the technical depth to review designs, challenge implementation choices and engage credibly with engineers.

• Technical fluency across modern application architecture, APIs and event-driven integration, cloud and SaaS platforms, data architecture, identity and access management, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, resilience and secure software delivery will be highly regarded.

• Experience establishing pragmatic architecture governance, design assurance, decision records and exception processes without creating heavyweight delivery gates.

• Demonstrated ability to align technology decisions with business strategy, client outcomes, regulatory obligations and operational priorities.

• Experience developing architecture artefacts such as capability maps, application and technology portfolios, reference architectures and lifecycle plans.

• Commercial judgement across build-versus-buy decisions, vendors, licensing, total cost of ownership, concentration risk and exit strategies.

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to make sound, evidence-based recommendations in ambiguity.

• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex choices and influence executives, risk stakeholders and delivery teams.

• Experience working across local, regional or global technology operating models, including Group, outsourced and vendor-managed services, would be highly regarded.

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent professional experience; practical use of architecture methods such as TOGAF and relevant security or cloud certifications would be advantageous.

Your role competencies

• Connects business intent, client outcomes and technology choices, making clear recommendations and understanding wider consequences.

• Creates direction and coherence across domains while enabling accountable teams to own detailed design, engineering and delivery.

• Engages credibly with engineers and specialists, challenges assumptions and drives practical decisions through to implementation.

• Applies proportionate governance, records decisions and exceptions, and manages risk without slowing delivery unnecessarily.

• Communicates clearly, builds trusted relationships across organisational boundaries and navigates differing views constructively.

• Takes ownership, learns from delivery and operational feedback, and continually improves the architecture practice.