Solution Architect (Clinical)

St John of God Health Care (SJGHC) is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

Join the Technology Enablement team and play a key role in designing and delivering innovative technology solutions that support patient care, clinical services, and digital transformation.

About the Role

As a Solution Architect, Clinical Applications you will lead the design of secure, scalable, and interoperable solutions across clinical systems, digital health platforms, and healthcare integrations. Working closely with clinical and technology stakeholders, you will help shape the future of digital healthcare through initiatives involving electronic medical records, clinical workflows, medical devices, patient-facing technologies, and interoperability solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure, scalable, and interoperable solutions that support clinical services and digital health initiatives.
• Translate clinical and business requirements into practical technology solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Lead solution design activities and provide architectural guidance throughout project delivery.
• Develop architecture artefacts, solution designs, integration patterns, and implementation roadmaps.
• Drive interoperability, integration, standardisation, and reduction of technical debt across clinical systems.
• Establish and promote architecture standards, best practices, and reusable design patterns.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, privacy, healthcare regulations, and interoperability standards including HL7, FHIR, and DICOM.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and evaluate emerging digital health, AI, and clinical technologies to support innovation and improved patient outcomes.

About You

You are an experienced and collaborative Solution Architect who enjoys partnering with clinical, operational, and technology teams to deliver solutions that improve healthcare outcomes. You bring a balance of strategic thinking and practical delivery expertise, with the ability to navigate complex environments and influence stakeholders at all levels.

You will have experience in a Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, or similar role within a large and complex organisation, ideally within healthcare or another regulated industry. Your background includes designing and delivering enterprise application solutions, integrating systems using APIs and middleware technologies, and working across cloud-based SaaS and hybrid environments.

You will bring strong expertise in solution architecture, application lifecycle management, and technology integration, together with an understanding of healthcare interoperability standards and clinical systems. Experience developing business cases, evaluating technology options, and providing strategic architecture advice is essential.

Most importantly, you are a strong communicator with excellent stakeholder engagement skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts into meaningful business and clinical outcomes while building trusted relationships across the organisation.

We can offer you

• Competitive remuneration and benefits
• Permanent Full-Time position

• Located at Kings Square Perth CBD office or Collins Street Melbourne office, with 40% work from home option
• End of trip/bike riding & shower facilities

• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
  • Novated leasing
  • work related expenses
  • self-education and
  • additional superannuation
• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave and well-being programs
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Access to a range of Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing rewards and discounts

All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.

Join St John of God Health Care

At St John of God Health Care we support you to be the best health care professional or support worker you can be. We believe positive culture drives performance, so we are focussed on building collaborative and supportive team environments, providing opportunities for development and promotion, and ensuring our leaders are visible and accessible.

As one of the largest Catholic providers of health care services in Australia, St John of God Health Care is a great place to work with a host of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, and a great work life balance.

Our caregivers come from diverse backgrounds and belief systems and you don’t need to be Catholic to work with us.