Architecture Hub Lead

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams, appreciate progressive industries, and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

The Team

The Architecture team at SEEK is made up of 3 domains: Customer, Platform, and Growth & Incubation. Customer team enable the efficient customer value by aligning the architecture strategy for the end-to-end customer journey with product ambitions. Customer Team Support the effective delivery of SEEK's objectives by designing platform capabilities that can be easily leveraged across the organisation. Growth support SEEK's incubation and adjacent businesses by designing technology solutions that enable velocity delivery and growth whilst aligning to SEEK's Technology Strategy. Currently we have 20 people in Australia and 4 in Kuala Lumpur.

About The Role

The Architecture Hub Lead is a key role in the Technology team reporting to the APAC Architecture Practice Manager. Accountable for uplifting Architecture Practices within the team and for maintaining the ‘Architecture Hub’. The Architecture hub is a group of tools and integrations which help SEEK make strategic business and technology decisions. Jira is used to prioritise work and LeanIX has recently been implemented for Enterprise Architecture management. The mission of the Architecture Hub Lead is to ensure the successful implementation and adoption of the architecture hub within SEEK by leading the prioritisation, project management, stakeholder management, training and support, architecture governance, and continuous improvement efforts. The goal of this role is to enable SEEK to effectively manage its enterprise architecture and drive business value through the use of Jira, LeanIX and the broader Architecture tools and practices.

Primary Stakeholders:

• Chief Architect and Heads of Architecture
• Principal, Solution and Software Architects
• The Engineering and Delivery community at SEEK
• Business and Product Stakeholders in line with the portfolios of work

Responsibilities

• Prioritisation - be responsible for facilitating the prioritisation of all Architecture work using Agile and Lean approaches in tools such as Jira and Miro.
• Project Management - Managing the operational state of the Architecture Hub (LeanIX and it’s integrations). This includes defining project scope, creating project plans, coordinating with partners, and ensuring that the project stays on schedule and within budget.
• Work closely with partners across SEEK to understand their requirements and ensure that the implementation of LeanIX architecture hub meets their needs. This includes building strong relationships with partners, managing expectations, and communicating project and systems updates effectively to hundreds of users of LeanIX.
• Providing training and support to users of LeanIX and the Architecture Hub. This includes developing documentation and providing ongoing support to ensure SEEK can make the most out of the tools.
• Analysing business requirements and finding opportunities to use LeanIX and the broader ‘Architecture Hub’ to drive business value.
• Ensuring that the use of LeanIX architecture hub aligns with the organization's architecture governance framework. This includes establishing and maintaining architecture standards, policies, and procedures, and ensuring that they are followed by all users of the tool.
• Continuously improving the implementation and use of LeanIX architecture hub within the organization. This includes identifying areas for improvement, implementing changes, and measuring the effectiveness of those changes.
• Tooling and resources – Drive strategy development, proof of concepts, and implementation of tools and other resources needed by Architecture to continue to improve and automate its service offerings.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Real world experience designing or implementing enterprise architecture tooling or practices that enable a business to make faster, safer, cheaper decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects from initiation to closure, including defining project scope, creating project plans, coordinating with partners.
• Ability to prepare clear comms to broad audiences of end users.
• Ability to work with software systems and tools in an admin role.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships with partners, manage expectations, and effectively communicate project updates, influence desired outcomes,
• Analytical and critical thinking skills to identify and solve problems related to architecture governance, tool adoption, and user support.
• Leadership: Ability to lead a team and motivate others to achieve project goals and objectives.
• Continuous Improvement: Ability to identify areas for improvement and implement changes to continuously improve the use of architecture tools and processes.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, technologies, and business requirements.

Desirable Experience, Skills and Competencies

• Experience with Enterprise Architecture. Knowledge and understanding of enterprise architecture principles, including architecture frameworks and standards.
• Experience using an enterprise architecture tool like LeanIX.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to engage with and present to technical and non-technical customers and decision-makers at all levels
• Ability to work under pressure, independently, managing multiple partners, initiatives, and tasks effectively
• Experience of agile principles and practices
• Experience with lean principles and practices
• Experience in business change management rollout and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience facilitating workshops and increasing collaboration between teams

Perks and benefits

At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Casual dress – every day

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.