Manager - Strategy and Enterprise Business Architecture

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About the Role and Section

The Transformation Office is seeking a Manager to join the Strategy and Enterprise Business Architecture section.

The Strategy and Enterprise Business Architecture section is responsible for aligning CER’s business capabilities, data architecture, and strategic goals. It helps business units understand both their current situation and future possibilities, identify areas for improvement, and ensure their capabilities link together people, processes, information, and technology. The section maintains records of business capabilities and data entities, incorporates governance practices, and supports evidence-based decisions to prioritise investments and advance technology. By collaborating with product, technology, and data teams, the section promotes efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with government-wide policies.

Role Responsibilities and Duties

The Manager, Strategy and Enterprise Business Architecture leads the section responsible for developing, maintaining, and leveraging the agency’s business and data architecture. This role ensures business capabilities and data entities are clearly defined, owned, and linked to organisational structures, processes, information, and technology, supporting strategic decision-making, investment planning, and data governance.

Under broad direction, the Manager, Strategy and Enterprise Business Architecture will:

• Support the development of CER’s business and operating models, including the standardisation of business patterns.
• Engage with executive-level stakeholders to understand their vision, supporting the development of strategic plans that guide the business, data, and technology architectures.
• Lead the development and maintenance of business and service catalogues linked to business capabilities, ensuring they are current, accurate, and actionable.
• Oversee the mapping of capabilities to people, processes, information, and technology assets.
• Drive the integration of business and data architecture with strategic planning, investment management, and data roadmaps.
• Facilitate engagement with business lines to understand current and future state needs and identify opportunities for improvement in both business and data domains.
• Provide expert advice on business and data architecture, capability and data maturity, investment alignment, and governance to senior leadership.
• Ensure documentation and reporting standards are met, using agency-endorsed templates and frameworks.
• Ensure the agency’s data governance processes are fit for purpose and aligned with legislation and whole-of-government directions.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and collaboration within the section and across the branch.
• Represent the section in governance forums and working groups, advocating for business and data architecture best practices.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes

• Demonstrated experience in business and data architecture, capability and data mapping, and strategic planning within a complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, SAFe agile delivery framework, and data governance practices.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex stakeholder relationships.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• Experience with process mapping, investment planning, technology alignment, and data governance.
• Ability to drive change and deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, effectiveness, and data quality.

How to Apply

To learn more about this role, please click on 'Apply' to view the Clean Energy Regulator Careers page.

Other Benefits

• Great work-life balance.
• Competitive salary packaging and leave options, including purchase leave.
• Diverse, supportive, inclusive and agile work environment, with staff at all levels being part of conversations with the senior executive and being offered the opportunity to experience different types of work.
• A wide range of learning and development opportunities.