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As an Domain Architect, the following will be expected of you: You will partner with the relevant Head of Technology, driving the strategic roadmap and vision for the Domain in meeting organisational goals. You will partner with the broader CIO Leadership team and the Principal, Enterprise Architecture with accountability for promoting the domain technology strategy and roadmap for Great Southern Bank. This includes strategic thought leadership in relation to the Domain, promoting insights and emerging trends. You will influence across the Enterprise to maximise the value the organisation derives from its technology assets and investments within the Domain. You will be a Domain Leader within the broader Architecture Guild and support ongoing evolution of governance patterns, standards and guardrails across the Domain and its integration with other domains. You will support Senior Solution Architects by providing Domain context, and ultimately ensure solutions adhere to architecture principles, standards, governance requirements and risk appetite. You will maintain reference architectures with defined transition states for 1-year, 2-year and 3-year horizons. You will identify technical debt delivered by portfolio initiatives that impact the Domain, review periodically, and define pragmatic remediation approaches aligned to investment cycles. You will collaborate with Platform Owners, both business-facing and technical, to establish platform strategy in relation to functional and non-functional requirements. You will frame consolidation of legacy platforms into strategic target platforms and influence migration and decommissioning strategies. You will collaborate with Risk, Governance and Compliance teams to identify, mitigate and implement controls relevant to Domain risks. You will engage technical platform owners to review operational performance of solutions in production and drive improvements to SLAs, resilience and scalability. You will identify and resolve architectural interdependencies across applications and platforms. You will maintain deep technical expertise relevant to the Domain to provide informed guidance on technology selection, design patterns and emerging capabilities. You will lead tooling strategy for the Domain platforms and evaluate tools supporting governance, security, automation and operational management. You will proactively engage with other architecture teams to review solution designs and platform strategies submitted to the Architecture Review Board. Collaborate with business and technology teams, including partners, to define and select appropriate technology solutions. Clearly communicate solution options and rationale in business-relevant language. Ensure all technology change passes through governance gates and aligns with risk appetite. Leverage experience across enterprise and solution architecture practices to continuously improve architecture frameworks, processes and standards. In the role, you will engage Heads of Technology and Platform Owners, the Principal, Enterprise Architecture and Senior Solution Architects, alongside key business stakeholders and other technology platform teams to ensure effective delivery of technology-enabled initiatives. Your primary goal is enabling the implementation of the Great Southern Bank Technology Strategy. Minimum 10+ years’ experience in Information Technology, with at least 7 years in architecture roles (Domain, Enterprise or Solution Architecture). Experience operating in complex enterprise environments, ideally within banking or regulated financial services. Deep expertise in enterprise platforms, technology ecosystems and domain-aligned architecture capabilities. Strong understanding of application architecture, integration patterns, platform architecture and distributed systems design. Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions on modern cloud platforms. Broad technical understanding spanning infrastructure, networking, databases, security, applications and platform services, with the ability to analyse architectural interdependencies. Demonstrated experience leading architecture across large transformation programs or strategic initiatives. Experience managing architectural risk, regulatory considerations and technology governance in regulated environments. Proven capability providing technical leadership and direction to engineering teams, both internal and partner-delivered. Experience working across multiple stakeholder groups including business leaders, delivery teams, vendors and technology partners. Strong stakeholder engagement, consultation and communication skills, able to translate technical architecture into clear business outcomes. Solid understanding of IT operations, service management and operational resilience considerations in architecture design. Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and architectural oversight across multiple initiatives. Strong analytical, systems-thinking and problem-solving capability.