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Are you an architect who thrives at the intersection of strategy, technology, and business impact?  At Datacom, we're looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect to help shape the technology futures of some of the region's most significant organisations. This is a rare opportunity to operate at the highest levels of architecture practice — working with customer executives, influencing strategy, and seeing your decisions come to life through real delivery.    About the Role  This is a hands-on leadership position for an architect who is equally comfortable sketching solutions on a whiteboard with a CIO as they are designing reference architectures, running governance reviews, and mentoring delivery teams through implementation.  As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you'll be a trusted advisor to Datacom's customers and a strategic partner to our sales and delivery teams, shaping architectural direction across Business, Data, Application, and Technology domains, and identifying opportunities that drive real growth across the organisation.    What You'll Do  Shape Architecture Strategy  Develop and evolve enterprise architecture strategies, principles, standards, and roadmaps across all architecture domains  Lead architecture governance — including review boards, design authority participation, and standards compliance  Define reusable patterns and reference architectures that accelerate delivery and raise the quality bar across engagements  Evaluate emerging technologies and trends to keep Datacom — and our customers — ahead of the curve  Deliver Technical Excellence  Design complex, end-to-end solutions spanning hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments  Conduct architecture assessments of customer environments, surfacing risks, technical debt, and modernisation opportunities  Develop business capability models, current and future state views, gap analyses, transition roadmaps, and integration strategies  Provide authoritative recommendations through options papers, architecture decision records, and formal consultancy  Drive Customer Engagement & Growth  Build and sustain trusted advisor relationships with customer stakeholders from the C-suite to delivery teams  Lead discovery workshops, strategic planning sessions, and architecture assessments that uncover real business challenges  Support pre-sales activity — contributing to proposals, RFP responses, and statements of work with architecture narratives and effort estimates  Identify and generate pipeline opportunities across Datacom's managed services, cloud, security, data, and software engineering practices  Mentor & Collaborate  Mentor and upskill junior and mid-level architects, fostering a culture of architectural thinking and practical excellence  Collaborate across solution architects, delivery leads, and engineering teams to ensure architectural intent is preserved through to implementation  Represent Datacom's architecture capability at industry events, customer forums, and thought leadership engagements    What You'll Bring  Experience  10+ years of IT experience with a strong enterprise architecture background spanning multiple domains  A track record of delivering architecture outcomes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments — enterprise or government  Practical experience producing real architecture artefacts: reference architectures, roadmaps, ADRs, standards documentation  Hands-on experience in customer-facing roles — discovery, pre-sales, workshops, and executive presentations  Experience designing for hybrid and multi-cloud environments and translating architecture decisions into commercial context  Knowledge&nb