About the Department 

The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives. It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for a 21st century economy and society. 

About the Division 

The Information Management and Technology Division (IMTD) leads digital transformation for the department and Victorian government schools. IMTD manages Victoria's largest tech network, serving 750,000 users. It innovates by implementing cloud solutions (IaaS), enterprise cloud platforms (PaaS), and software (SaaS) with a focus on user experience, security, and integration, using agile practices. 

About the Role 

The Principal Architect II is the driving force behind the scenes, making sure our department's plans and goals become a reality. They're the ones who come up with cool ideas, evaluate programs, and navigate difficult strategic issues. What's impressive is how they connect with people - the Principal Architect can break down complex concepts into everyday language and handle sensitive information with care. They're not just leaders; they set the bar for excellence and keep us on track with big projects. Their deep understanding of our department's inner workings allows them to introduce innovative ideas and keep things running smoothly while making sure we meet our deadlines and maintain quality. 

The ideal candidate will prioritise platform design for maintainability and future enhancements by adhering to best practices, modular design, and will also leave clear documentation. They will also offer architecture guidance and support in areas such as database architecture, data storage, integration, scalability, performance, and extensibility. Additionally, they will establish strategic platform design support by developing an org strategy and a decision matrix tree involving multi-org approaches. 

This role plays a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining the Salesforce platform architecture. This position involves strategic planning, technical leadership, and collaboration with stakeholders to ensure the platform meets business objectives and supports scalable and reliable operations. 

Capabilities 

The ideal candidate embodies adaptability and innovation, fostering collaboration and breaking communication barriers. They prioritise outcomes, optimise systems, and drive continuous improvement. Whether as an Enterprise or Technical Architect, they align IT with business goals and excel in data expertise. They're effective communicators, influential strategists, and adept at stakeholder management. They emphasise knowledge management and business continuity while championing team development and empowerment, creating a dynamic and high-performing environment. 

Desired Qualifications and Experience 

• Demonstrated experience: 
• mentoring and coaching others in the capability areas of Salesforce platform architecture, modules, related concepts, and best practices. 
• developing and maintaining a holistic view of the Salesforce platform's structure, including supported business capabilities, use cases, processes, and information systems. 
• the application end-to-end strategic architectural practices across Salesforce platforms that removes and avoids technical debt. 
• which enables strategic connectivity between business capabilities and technical reference models.  
• in developing strategic roadmaps, frameworks, blueprints, patterns and models that that traverse multiple products. 
• in the establishment of guardrails for the compliance management of an enterprise-wide approach to platform architecture including a specific focus on out of the-box functionality. 
• in leading a multi-disciplinary team to achieve outside of their area of comfort, doing new things in new ways while avoiding friction. 
• Significant experience as a Salesforce Platform Architect in a similarly complex organisation. 
• Tertiary qualifications/accreditations in a related discipline would be advantageous. 

Further Information 

For more details regarding this position please see attached position description. 

The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page 

Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au. 

For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Thien Nguyen – Manager Solution Architecture via (03) 8688 7858 or thien.nguyen@education.vic.gov.au.  

Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence. 

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Applications close 11:59pm on 10 December 2023