Senior Strategy Manager
Job reference : 14273022
Job Type : Contract
Pay : Hourly $1000 - $2000
Location : Adelaide, SA
Posted on : 04-03-2026
An exciting opportunity for Senior Strategy Manager is open for a rapidly growing project. Be part of a team that makes meaningful changes
Gateway Synergy is looking for a highly experienced Senior Strategy Manager for a federal government agency. An exciting opportunity is open for a rapidly growing project. Be part of a team that makes meaningful changes and improves Australian lives.
The Role
This role will be responsible for identifying gaps between existing IT strategies and business objectives and providing recommendations to address these gaps.
The Candidate
Seller personnel will have demonstrated experience, knowledge, and qualifications in:
Background and Required Outcomes
The technology environment within the agency has undergone significant transformation since the publication of the Technology Strategy in 2018. Emerging trends such as generative and agentic artificial intelligence, quantum computing, real-time data architectures, and advanced cloud capabilities are reshaping the way government agencies deliver services. At the same time, whole-of-government initiatives, evolving compliance requirements, and the increasing need for secure digital identity frameworks demand a more agile and integrated technology ecosystem. These developments highlight the urgency of reviewing their current IT architecture to ensure the agency's IT systems remain aligned with organisational objectives and capable of supporting future innovation.
The primary objective of this procurement is to undertake a comprehensive review of the agency's existing enterprise architecture artefacts – including their technology and business capability models – to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and unrealised opportunities. This assessment will highlight areas where current architectures do not fully support the organisation’s strategic direction or the vision of creating a future where Tax just happens. The outcomes will include updated, contemporary enterprise architecture models and reports that provide a clear view of the agency's current capabilities and technologies. These deliverables will inform targeted improvements across people, processes, policies, and technology, enabling a more agile, innovative, and strategically aligned enterprise architecture capability.
Objectives
1. Clear understanding of the current platforms including systems, data flows, integration patterns, legacy constraints and architectural fragmentation.
2. Identification of opportunities to improve speed to value, optimise cost, modernise the technology portfolio and reduce architectural and operational risk.
3. Visibility of enterprise level technology limitations that prevent the agency from achieving strategic goals such as real time processing and more automated service delivery.
4. Assessment of process, technology and skills gaps that limit the organisation’s ability to design, deliver and govern technology effectively.
5. Insight into emerging commercial models such as consumption based pricing, platform bundling and AI licensing structures, and how these may affect long term cost, flexibility and investment planning.
6. Practical, prioritised and actionable recommendations for target state architecture, including roadmap to strengthen enterprise architecture, rationalise systems, modernise platforms and build strategic technology capabilities that future proof the organisation.
Detailed Scope
1. Identify current state elements that are critical to understanding alignment to business outcomes and what is strategically relevant a. Review of existing business strategies within the enterprise
b. Recommended updates to technology strategies based on strategic misalignment
c. Business outcome definitions
2. Current State Technology Discovery a. Legacy constraints (e.g. Mainframe & on-premise hosting, data estates, legacy COTS platforms)
b. Compare against industry benchmarks using suppliers preferred technology framework
c. Review existing IT platform strategies and inflight uplift programs
3. Current State Operating Model Discovery a. Operational processes (incident, problem, change, DR/BCP, SRE/observability)
b. Compare against industry benchmarks using vendors preferred IT scorecard
c. Proposed functional model aligned to business outcomes
4. Strategic Technology Platforms Diagnostics & Analysis a. Pain-point heatmap (availability, performance, scalability, maintainability, vendor lock-in)
b. Compare cost and performance against industry benchmarks using vendors preferred IT scorecard
5. Operating Model Diagnostics & Analysis a. Risk assessment (architectural, operational, cyber, compliance, vendor)
b. Operating model constraints that impact our ability to align to business outcomes
6. Approach for developing operating model, roadmaps, strategies a. Proposal for uplifts to business functions, operating models
“OPENING THE GATEWAY BETWEEN TALENT & OPPORTUNITY”
If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at: https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/
You must submit a CV on application prior to a phone call with Wiliana on 0482 074 845
#SCR-josh-seaman
The Role
This role will be responsible for identifying gaps between existing IT strategies and business objectives and providing recommendations to address these gaps.
The Candidate
Seller personnel will have demonstrated experience, knowledge, and qualifications in:
- Using Business and Enterprise Architecture Practices to develop business functions models.
- Using Enterprise Architecture practices to develop technology platform views.
- Research and environment scans of the IT profession and the Taxation, Registration and Superannuation industries.
- Developing IT strategies and roadmaps in alignment with organisational strategies.
Background and Required Outcomes
The technology environment within the agency has undergone significant transformation since the publication of the Technology Strategy in 2018. Emerging trends such as generative and agentic artificial intelligence, quantum computing, real-time data architectures, and advanced cloud capabilities are reshaping the way government agencies deliver services. At the same time, whole-of-government initiatives, evolving compliance requirements, and the increasing need for secure digital identity frameworks demand a more agile and integrated technology ecosystem. These developments highlight the urgency of reviewing their current IT architecture to ensure the agency's IT systems remain aligned with organisational objectives and capable of supporting future innovation.
The primary objective of this procurement is to undertake a comprehensive review of the agency's existing enterprise architecture artefacts – including their technology and business capability models – to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and unrealised opportunities. This assessment will highlight areas where current architectures do not fully support the organisation’s strategic direction or the vision of creating a future where Tax just happens. The outcomes will include updated, contemporary enterprise architecture models and reports that provide a clear view of the agency's current capabilities and technologies. These deliverables will inform targeted improvements across people, processes, policies, and technology, enabling a more agile, innovative, and strategically aligned enterprise architecture capability.
Objectives
1. Clear understanding of the current platforms including systems, data flows, integration patterns, legacy constraints and architectural fragmentation.
2. Identification of opportunities to improve speed to value, optimise cost, modernise the technology portfolio and reduce architectural and operational risk.
3. Visibility of enterprise level technology limitations that prevent the agency from achieving strategic goals such as real time processing and more automated service delivery.
4. Assessment of process, technology and skills gaps that limit the organisation’s ability to design, deliver and govern technology effectively.
5. Insight into emerging commercial models such as consumption based pricing, platform bundling and AI licensing structures, and how these may affect long term cost, flexibility and investment planning.
6. Practical, prioritised and actionable recommendations for target state architecture, including roadmap to strengthen enterprise architecture, rationalise systems, modernise platforms and build strategic technology capabilities that future proof the organisation.
Detailed Scope
1. Identify current state elements that are critical to understanding alignment to business outcomes and what is strategically relevant a. Review of existing business strategies within the enterprise
b. Recommended updates to technology strategies based on strategic misalignment
c. Business outcome definitions
2. Current State Technology Discovery a. Legacy constraints (e.g. Mainframe & on-premise hosting, data estates, legacy COTS platforms)
b. Compare against industry benchmarks using suppliers preferred technology framework
c. Review existing IT platform strategies and inflight uplift programs
3. Current State Operating Model Discovery a. Operational processes (incident, problem, change, DR/BCP, SRE/observability)
b. Compare against industry benchmarks using vendors preferred IT scorecard
c. Proposed functional model aligned to business outcomes
4. Strategic Technology Platforms Diagnostics & Analysis a. Pain-point heatmap (availability, performance, scalability, maintainability, vendor lock-in)
b. Compare cost and performance against industry benchmarks using vendors preferred IT scorecard
5. Operating Model Diagnostics & Analysis a. Risk assessment (architectural, operational, cyber, compliance, vendor)
b. Operating model constraints that impact our ability to align to business outcomes
6. Approach for developing operating model, roadmaps, strategies a. Proposal for uplifts to business functions, operating models
“OPENING THE GATEWAY BETWEEN TALENT & OPPORTUNITY”
If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at: https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/
You must submit a CV on application prior to a phone call with Wiliana on 0482 074 845
#SCR-josh-seaman