The Opportunity At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play. We now have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Enterprise Architect to join our Finance and Technology team in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane on a permanent full-time basis. Reporting to the Strategy Manager, the Principal Enterprise Architect provides strategic leadership to shape and govern APA’s enterprise architecture, ensuring technology investments align with business strategy. The role focuses on cost-efficiency, architectural integrity, and future-readiness across IT and OT, while driving digital transformation and developing architecture capability across the organisation. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture to align technology strategy with APA’s long‑term business objectives. Lead architectural planning and governance, ensuring cost‑efficient, secure, and resilient solutions across IT, OT, cloud, and data platforms. Evaluate and guide technology investment decisions, focusing on total cost of ownership, risk, and value alignment. Support digital, cloud, and analytics transformation, partnering with stakeholders to design and implement future‑ready, secure platforms. Embed cybersecurity, resilience, and compliance into enterprise architecture, aligning with APA’s critical infrastructure obligations. Foster collaboration and build architecture capability, acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and mentoring a high‑performing architecture practice. Your background Provide strategic enterprise architecture leadership within complex, regulated environments such as energy, utilities, or critical infrastructure. Expertise across IT and OT integration, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), data analytics, and cybersecurity frameworks. Develop and govern architecture standards, ensuring alignment with business objectives, cost efficiency, and long‑term value. Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, translating technical concepts for senior and executive audiences. Proven experience in enterprise and solution architecture, project delivery, and risk management within highly regulated industries. Leadership focus on team building, customer-centricity, and continuous improvement, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation. Working at APA At APA we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We’ll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life. We employ more than 2700 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day. We are APA APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business. We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $26 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia. As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage. Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions. We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities. Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you. APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in. Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered. This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment. Role closes Sunday, 13 July 2025. Role Reference Number JR2732 APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies. We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.
