Head of Architecture - Digital Strategy & Transformation

Bayside Health Bayside Health is a public health service delivering high-quality care across every stage of life for close to 1.2 million people living in metropolitan Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, Koo Wee Rup, Bass Coast and Southern Gippsland. We have more than 15 main sites, including hospitals, centres and clinics that provide comprehensive care from welcoming newborns to supporting older people and a full range of services in between. More than 22,000 dedicated staff are focused on providing exceptional, equitable, and locally connected care through shared expertise, compassion, and a commitment to continuous growth. Education and training are central to staff development as we encourage all employees to strive and thrive. Bayside Health was formed following the merger of Alfred Health, Bass Coast Health, Gippsland Southern Health Service, Kooweerup Regional Health Service and Peninsula Health on 1 January 2026.

Permanent, full-time ongoing position

Full time, 80 hours per fortnight including a monthly ADO

Classification – HS8

Attractive staff remuneration and benefits

The Department The Digital Health division is responsible for enabling clinical staff to deliver timely, quality care to our patients and carers through innovative use of information technologies, and through strategic management of information and data across the organisation.

The Role – Position Summary An exciting new permanent opportunity for a Head of Architecture has become available within the Strategy & Transformation team as part of Alfred Care Group’s Digital Health division. We are seeking an enthusiastic and passionate individual to lead our Architecture function and define how technology strategy drives outcomes across the organisation. This is a highly influential role providing strategic leadership and partnering closely with senior clinical leaders and technical product delivery teams to design a scalable, secure and future ready digital architecture for the Alfred Care Group, unified technology strategy roadmap and integrated IT operating model that supports the next phase of growth and expansion for Bayside Health.

You’ll set the vision, principles and technical guardrails that guide how we build, integrate and evolve our platforms, from our patient facing / customer systems to our internal clinical and corporate systems. You’ll also embed solution and domain architecture into product streams to support empowerment, speed to market and strong alignment with clinical goals. The organisation is undergoing a significant period of transformational change, and this role is key to shaping the foundations and future digital ambitions of a unified and adaptive digital health ecosystem that supports operational excellence, clinical innovation and person-centred care across Bayside Health.

Your key responsibilities include, but may not be limited to:

Define and own our enterprise architecture vision, principles and multi year technology strategy roadmaps

Create and maintain reference architectures and capability models across applications, data and technology

Establish and enforce architecture governance, standards, blueprints and design patterns

Provide oversight of non functional requirements, technology risk assessments and platform strategy

Review and approve solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise direction

Coach, mentor and develop a team of enterprise, solution and technology domain architects

Embed architecture guardrails into product led agile delivery teams

Lead build vs buy decisions, technology selections and platform rationalisation across the enterprise

Maintain registers for enterprise decisions and technical debt reduction

Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Operations and Finance teams

Translate complex technical decisions into clear and compelling business narratives

Evaluate emerging technologies and lead strategic proof of concepts

Qualifications And Experience

10-15+ years in IT architecture and strategy roles, including 5+ years in architecture leadership and digital transformation (ideally in the public health sector or large highly complex regulated environments)

Tertiary qualifications (Bachelor’s degree or higher) in Health/Business/ or IT / Information Systems

Industry certifications in Enterprise Architecture or Agile (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, CGEIT, SAFe).

Demonstrated expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, SABSA, ADM, ITIL)

Strength in systems / design thinking, long term target state roadmap ownership and reference modelling

Demonstrated experience leading architecture or technology integration during M&A, restructures or major service transformations.

Experience presenting strategies to senior executive stakeholders and lead complex decision making

Experience embedding security, resilience and compliance protocols into solution lifecycles

Experience implementing IT target operating models with modern delivery methods such as Agile / SAFe, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-native delivery, and how architecture supports these ways of working.

Experience leading and mentoring cross-functional architects in a product led, agile environment

Visionary leader with a growth mindset and demonstrated commitment to continuous learning

Exceptional communication, negotiation, problem solving and executive storytelling skills

Deep expertise and understanding of modern engineering practices, clinical and operational workflows, integration / interoperability standards (e.g. APIs, ESB/iPaaS, event-driven architecture, messaging), cybersecurity, cloud platforms and scalable data architecture models.

Advanced knowledge of emerging technology trends including Gen / AI / Agentic AI, ML / data science, advanced analytics, automation and their implications for healthcare.

Experience with the Cerner product suite and other clinical information systems and products (desirable)

Benefits

This is an opportunity to work with an amazing team in a growth area within public health and to have a real impact on patient care and outcomes. Additional benefits include:

Access to Salary Packaging and Novated Car Leasing

Health and wellbeing initiatives in addition to discounted health insurance

Ongoing professional learning and development opportunities

Flexible and hybrid remote working arrangements, with five weeks paid annual leave and monthly ADOs

Discounted car parking (subject to availability) as well as onsite gym and childcare services

Applications close at 11:59 pm on TModnay, 23rd February 2026

For further information, please contact Natasha Ahuja on (04) 0666 2569 or n.ahuja@alfred.org.au.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, and people of all genders, sexualities, and cultural backgrounds.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application materials, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

In accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

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