The Royal Children's Hospital

Lead Solutions Architect - Bringing Care Home Transformation

The Royal Children's Hospital  •  Melbourne, AU (Hybrid)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Help Redesign the Future of Healthcare in Australia

  • Shape One of Australia's Largest Healthcare Transformations-Join the team delivering Bringing Care Home, St Vincent's bold vision to care for 50% of patients and residents through virtual and in-home settings by 2030. This is an opportunity to influence how healthcare is delivered across Australia for generations to come.

  • Lead at the Intersection of Cloud, AI and Digital Health-Design and architect a next-generation ecosystem spanning patient and clinician applications, remote patient monitoring, AI-enabled services, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise healthcare integrations.

  • Build Something New, Not Maintain the Past-This is not a BAU architecture role. You will help establish the technical foundations, standards, and future-state architecture for a nationally significant transformation program from the ground up.

About Bringing Care Home

For more than 160 years, St Vincent's has delivered care where it is needed most.

Today, we're doing it again.

Bringing Care Home is our enterprise-wide transformation to deliver more connected, personalised and accessible healthcare through virtual care, remote patient monitoring, digital health technologies and innovative models of care.

This is more than a technology transformation — it's a transformation of healthcare itself.

The Opportunity- Lead Solutions Architect - Bringing Care Home Transformation

This is a permanent full-time position with flexible hybrid working arrangements available across Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane.

Reporting initially to the National Director, Architecture & Portfolio Management, and transitioning into the Bringing Care Home leadership structure as the program matures, you will serve as the technical authority responsible for shaping the architecture that underpins one of Australia's most significant healthcare transformation programs.

Working at the intersection of cloud, AI, digital health and virtual care, you will provide architecture leadership across a complex ecosystem of patient and clinician applications, remote patient monitoring platforms, enterprise integrations, healthcare data services and emerging technologies. Partnering closely with executives, clinicians, product teams, architects, engineers and delivery partners, you will ensure technology decisions are scalable, secure, future-focused and aligned to exceptional patient outcomes.

You will lead the design and technical direction of:

  • Patient and clinician-facing mobile applications

  • Cloud-native digital healthcare platforms

  • Remote patient monitoring solutions

  • Enterprise integration services

  • AI-enabled healthcare capabilities

  • Secure healthcare data ecosystems

  • Modern DevSecOps and delivery practices

Working across executives, clinicians, product teams, engineers, architects, and delivery partners, you will ensure technology decisions support exceptional patient outcomes while remaining scalable, secure, and aligned to enterprise standards.

How You'll Make an Impact

Success in this role will see you:

  • Establish the architecture foundations that enable scalable virtual and in-home healthcare services nationally

  • Deliver solution architectures across key digital, cloud, integration, data and AI initiatives

  • Create reusable design patterns, standards and governance frameworks that accelerate future delivery

  • Drive alignment across multiple delivery partners, platforms and technology workstreams

  • Champion modern engineering practices – cloud-native architecture, DevSecOps, automation, and AI-enabled solutions – applying them hands-on, not just as guiding principles

  • Provide trusted technical leadership to executives, clinicians and technology teams

  • Contribute to positioning St Vincent's as a leader in digitally enabled healthcare innovation

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

Provide architecture leadership across a complex multi-partner environment, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable and fit for purpose.

Solution Architecture

Lead end-to-end architecture across applications, cloud, integration, data, AI and clinical technology domains.

Innovation & Modern Engineering

Champion and personally apply cloud-native architectures, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, and contemporary software delivery practices. This includes hands-on involvement in spikes, proof-of-concepts, and design validation – not solely governance and oversight.

Governance & Risk

Provide design assurance, architectural governance and proactive risk management across major initiatives.

Stakeholder Engagement

Translate complex technical concepts into meaningful business outcomes for executives, clinicians, vendors and delivery teams.

About You

You are an experienced Technical Architect with a strong engineering background – you have come up through platform engineering, software engineering, or cloud engineering, and you still get hands-on. You have a proven track record delivering complex digital transformation programs within enterprise environments, and you have been actively building and shipping cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions in the last two years – not just advising on them.

You will bring:

  • 7+ years’ experience within large-scale technology environments, including at least 3 years in a Technical or Solution Architect role – and critically, hands-on technical implementation experience in cloud and AI within the last 2 years. Candidates who have moved fully away from hands-on delivery will not be the right fit for this role

  • Demonstrated, recent hands-on experience (within the last 2 years) designing and delivering enterprise-grade solutions across AWS and/or Azure cloud environments

  • Mandatory: Deep, hands-on expertise in cloud-native architecture – API-led integration, event-driven platforms, enterprise data architecture, containerised and serverless technologies, and modern DevSecOps and CI/CD practices. You have built and shipped these patterns, not just designed them on whiteboards

  • Experience designing customer, patient, clinician or employee-facing digital products, including mobile and web-based applications

  • Proven capability delivering architecture across multiple domains including applications, integration, cloud, data and security

  • Mandatory: Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and implementing AI-enabled applications using modern AI services (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, LLM APIs, conversational AI, agentic workflows) – you have built with these tools, not just recommended them

  • An engineering mindset: you are comfortable doing technical spikes, validating integration approaches hands-on, reviewing code and infrastructure, and working alongside engineers to unblock delivery – architecture for you is a doing discipline, not just a thinking one

  • Ability to provide technical leadership and influence stakeholders across business, clinical, product and technology teams within complex delivery environments

Highly Regarded

  • Experience within healthcare, digital health, telehealth, remote patient monitoring, FHIR/SMART on FHIR, IoT-enabled technologies, financial services, government, or other highly regulated industries will be highly regarded.

  • Professional certifications such as TOGAF, AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert are also desirable.

Why Join St Vincent's?

  • Help shape the future of healthcare in Australia

  • Join a nationally significant transformation program

  • Work at the forefront of cloud, AI and digital health innovation

  • Flexible hybrid working arrangements

  • Competitive remuneration and salary packaging benefits

  • Professional development and certification support

  • National career opportunities across St Vincent's Health Australia

Join Us

Help architect the technology that will bring care closer to home and redefine how healthcare is delivered across Australia.

Apply now with your resume and cover letter.

Employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening, including National Criminal History Check, Right to Work Verification and Reference Checks.

Please note: Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may commence prior to the closing date. As such, the position may close earlier than advertised if a suitable candidate is identified.

We encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible to avoid missing this opportunity.

Closing Date:

5 July 2026 11:59pm

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

For further information, visit https /www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au

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The Royal Children's Hospital

About The Royal Children's Hospital

The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.

We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.

With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.

We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.

When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.

In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Parkville, AU
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
org.au
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