About Us
Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.
Job Description- Shape and maintain Qantas’ enterprise‑wide target‑state architecture and capability roadmaps.
- Lead architectural governance, embedding standards and guardrails across domains.
- Permanent, Full-time opportunity located Qantas Head Campus in Mascot
Technology is at the heart of how the Qantas Group delivers for our customers, people and shareholders. As we modernise, simplify and invest in the future, the right architectural foundations are critical to enabling safe, reliable and scalable solutions across the Group.
As an Enterprise Architect, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future‑state technology landscape for Qantas. Working horizontally across multiple domains, you’ll translate strategy into cohesive capability roadmaps, reference architectures and pragmatic solution designs that maximise customer, operational and commercial outcomes. Your work will directly influence how the Group modernises legacy systems, accelerates simplification and adopts emerging technologies.
Acting as the integrator across Domain Architects, delivery teams and senior technology leaders, you’ll guide architecture decisions, uncover cross‑domain synergies, and ensure our investments align with group‑wide guardrails, standards and long‑term strategic goals. This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role where your strategic thinking and technical depth will shape the way Qantas continues to innovate and grow.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and promote enterprise architecture strategies, standards and integrated target‑state roadmaps that enable Qantas’ technology and business strategy.
- Produce reference models across business, information, application, integration, infrastructure and security architectures to drive coherent design outcomes.
- Lead enterprise‑level architectural governance, embedding decision frameworks, guardrails and compliance practices across domains.
- Shape major initiatives early in planning and identifying cross‑domain opportunities, trade‑offs and investment implications to inform executive decision‑making.
- Provide end‑to‑end architectural oversight for high‑value transformation programs, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards and realising measurable business benefits.
- Drive technology modernisation and rationalisation by reducing duplication, retiring legacy platforms and uplifting resilience and sustainability.
- Evaluate and support pilots of emerging technologies, enabling innovation through proof‑of‑concepts and structured experimentation.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear narratives for executives, stakeholders and delivery teams, facilitating workshops that balance safety, commercial and operational needs.
- Identify systemic risks across cyber, resilience, safety and obsolescence and embed mitigations within architectural designs.
- Mentor Domain and Solution Architects, uplifting architectural capability, tooling proficiency and standards across the practice.
What You’ll Bring
- 8+ years’ experience in Enterprise, Domain or Solution Architecture within large, regulated environments.
- Proven ability to define future‑state architectures and translate strategy into actionable roadmaps and standards.
- Strong systems thinking and governance capability across business, data, application, integration, infrastructure and security domains.
- Experience driving tech modernisation, cloud adoption and legacy rationalisation, with excellent communication and influence skills.
- TOGAF/SABSA or similar certification, with a collaborative, customer‑focused mindset and the ability to lead through influence.
Why Qantas?
If you’re successful in your application, you’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.
There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.
The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.
- We love to travel: Enjoy discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
- We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and additional purchased leave options.
- We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging for everything from motor vehicles to electronic devices.
- We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether its learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.
Applications Close: 16th March 2026
