Solution Architect - Corporate Applications

St John of God Health Care (SJGHC) is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 15,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

The Technology Enablement team is seeking a strategic and hands-on Solution Architect (Corporate Applications) to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of our enterprise corporate systems portfolio.

In this pivotal role, you will provide end-to-end solution architecture leadership across key business platforms including HR, Payroll, Finance, Procurement, and Workforce Management, ensuring technology solutions are secure, scalable, integrated, and aligned with enterprise standards.

About the Role

You will work closely with business leaders, product owners, project teams, vendors, and technical specialists to design and deliver solutions that maximise business value, simplify the application landscape, and enable future digital capabilities.

Success in the position will be achieved through driving technology roadmaps, optimising enterprise platforms, reducing technical debt, and ensuring architecture decisions support both immediate business needs and long-term strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure, scalable, and integrated solutions.
• Develop solution architectures, technical designs, roadmaps, and implementation strategies aligned with enterprise standards.
• Provide technical leadership throughout project delivery, collaborating with business stakeholders, delivery teams, vendors, and technical specialists.
• Drive application modernisation, integration, automation, platform optimisation, and reduction of technical debt.
• Establish and promote architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices across the corporate applications portfolio.
• Lead architecture reviews and ensure compliance with cybersecurity, privacy, governance, and healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps, investment decisions, and the evaluation of emerging technologies, including AI and automation.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, dependencies, and solution quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.

About You

You are a strategic and collaborative Solution Architect who combines strong technical expertise with a practical, delivery-focused approach. You thrive in complex enterprise environments and are skilled at building relationships across business and technology teams to drive successful outcomes.

You will hold a relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent industry experience and have at least five years’ experience in a Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, or similar role. You will bring proven experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions across platforms such as Workday, Oracle, SAP, TechnologyOne, UKG, or similar enterprise systems, with strong knowledge of ERP, HRIS, Payroll, and Finance environments.

You will have experience designing and integrating enterprise applications using APIs, middleware, and cloud technologies, supported by a solid understanding of cybersecurity, privacy, identity management, and compliance requirements. Experience working across SaaS and hybrid technology environments is essential.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to lead end-to-end solution architecture, develop strategic recommendations and business cases, and ensure technology solutions align with enterprise standards and business objectives. Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication, and relationship management skills are essential, along with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear and meaningful business outcomes.

Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

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.