About us

Sydney Metro is Australia's biggest public transport project and first fully-automated metro rail network, connecting customers and transforming the way Sydney travels. Our new generation of driverless trains are fast, safe and reliable, and link with Sydney's existing public transport network to provide seamless journeys. Our 46 state of the art, fully accessible metro stations and precincts are designed to meet the evolving needs of our customers and communities.

With the Northwest line already in operation and works well underway on the City & Southwest, West and Western Sydney Airport lines, Sydney will enjoy a fully operational Metro network by 2030.

About the IT Team

The Sydney Metro Information & Technology (IT) branch sits within our Corporate Services division. Sydney Metro IT supports the needs of Sydney Metro’s portfolio of transport infrastructure projects and the teams behind them. We deliver lifecycle management across digital, products/platforms, security and risk, customer experience, service management, application development and integration, architecture, and technology portfolio management.   

We also play an important part in delivering the IT strategies that support Sydney Metro’s goals as an organisation by identifying technology opportunities, now and into the future.  

The Strategy & Architecture Function

Leads technology design decisions and ensure overall technology alignment and interoperability within Sydney Metro and across the Transport for NSW portfolios.

Strategy & Architecture provides:

Business advisory and strategic alignment

Technology strategy

Technology governance, guardrails and Principles

Domain and solution architecture

Domain Architecture

Provide specialist thought leadership and strategic advice to ensure continuous alignment between their domain and the broader ICT Strategy.

Ensure Strategic alignment to the Transport 2056, Corporate Plan, IT Strategy & supporting product & platform / application roadmaps

Stakeholder Management – actively engage in strategic stakeholder management to advise & influence the direction and prioritization of technology investment

Engaging across business (all levels) AND technology stakeholders to lead Strategic Planning

Establishes strong relationships with our strategic vendors and partners

Manages disruption to the domain portfolio through ad-hoc, cluster-wide or inter-agency demand

Contributes to the iteration of the IT Strategy where required, for the domain, in response to changing business demand

Domain Architect – Applications

Establishes and maintains key relationships with senior stakeholders, delivery partners and enabling technology teams to identify, define and analyse & assure the application portfolio will continue to deliver value.

Builds and maintains a holistic view of the organisational strategy, processes, information, and application services and how there are consumed, ensuring that the business and IT are in alignment, relating application portfolio to the business mission, strategy, and processes of the organisation

Creates reusable application architectures, principles, and patterns to support sustainable delivery.

Provide Application Architecture domain expertise and ownership across the portfolio and leads lifecycle planning.

Provides Strategic Portfolio guidance to drive decisions in IT projects in-flight as well as inform demand through ‘opportunity’ and ‘pre-project’ phases.

Communicates and sells the vision of Strategic Portfolio Management & associated roadmaps both within IT and to the wider business.

Your key accountabilities are:

Live the NSW Public Sector and organisational values to achieve outstanding outcomes for the organisation and customers

Provide high-level strategic advice, co-develop financial and business case models to assess technologies and assist in the prioritisation of future investment in IT systems and processes to support business objectives and the business eco-system

Contributes to and assists in the preparation and maintenance of architecture elements, including principles, guidelines, reference models, standards, patterns and templates.

Provides thought leadership & oversight in the development and execution of the annual operational Forward Workload Plan (FWP), supporting business and budget planning.

Provides application portfolio guidance and decision making to IT projects and initiatives during opportunity and pre-project phases.

Undertake high-level research, horizon scanning and analysis to identify future IT trends, and assess and explain the value of existing investments and emerging technologies and their applicability to support business objectives for the domain

Maintain strict quality control with regards to the application portfolio ‘database’ and lend expertise to other domains to ensure quality information storage and organisation 

Support the platform teams in aligning their demand prioritisation and forecasting to the enterprise strategy, drive ideation and contribute to project costing

Read through our candidate information pack to learn more about this great opportunity and our Information & Technology Branch.

About you  

Demonstrable experience or exposure to any or all of the Asset Lifecycle: Transport (Rail), Engineering and Design, Construction, Asset Management & Operations, Maintenance (desirable)

Demonstrable experience with Strategic Portfolio Management, maintaining a Strategic Application Portfolio and authoring operational forward work plans.

Demonstrable experience working with multiple strategic partners to deliver consistent IT services

Demonstrable experience supporting and influencing key architecture decisions in solution design with robust, reusable, sustainable, and modern Application Architectures.

Demonstrable experience creating reusable application architectures, principles, and patterns

Demonstrable and recent certification in TOGAF, Cloud Architecture: AWS (Professional) / Azure (Expert)  (or equivalent experience)

Demonstrable experience in the use of Technology Architecture modelling tools (iServer365 preferred)

Experience performing SWOT analysis on a Strategic Application Portfolio to ensure continued alignment to business priorities

Salary and Benefits 

This is a Transport Senior Service role offering an attractive remuneration package. 

For more information on Employee Benefits at TfNSW please click here.

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Interested?   

Joining Transport for NSW, you’ll have access to a range of unique government benefits in a flexible work environment like no other. If you’re ready to step into this meaningful and rewarding role, we want to hear from you!  

How to apply 

To apply for this position, please submit a resume and answer all questions within the online application process. 

Applications close: 11:59PM Friday 22nd April 2022. 

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We are the community we serve

We are committed to being an inclusive, diverse and flexible workplace where differences are valued. We welcome people of all backgrounds, experience and abilities.

We enable our people to work in ways that work for them and their teams. Working virtually and from different locations including regional locations, staggering work hours and job sharing are just some of the ways our people can work flexibly.

Please contact the Talent Specialist below if you require any adjustments to be made to how you interact with us throughout the recruitment process or would like to discuss flexible work options.

For any enquiries, please email Malcolm Constable at MALCOLM.CONSTABLE@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

We’re certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace

Our flexible work practices and policies for parental leave, employee and family wellbeing and family care enable us to provide genuine support for our people to thrive at work and at home.

Apply today to register your interest!

Take a look at our application tips video series for plenty of great information on navigating and acing the application and recruitment process with Sydney Metro.

Find out more about Sydney Metro at https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/sydney-metro. ​

Our COVIDSafe Measures Policy

All Transport for NSW workers are required to have:

appropriate evidence of being fully vaccinated with a TGA approved COVID-19 vaccine; or

an approved medical contraindication.

You will be required to show proof of your COVID-19 vaccination status or apply for a medical exemption prior to securing this role.

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