Information Architect

An ASX100 business part that is owned by Australian universities, IDP is a pioneer in international education services. Our_ _core business lines include student placement to Australia, US, UK, Canada and New Zealand institutions, English-language testing and training._
- We are on a mission to build the world's leading platform and connected community to guide students along their journey to achieve their lifelong learning and career aspirations._
- As a co-owner of IELTS, we deliver the English test that is trusted by more governments, universities and organisations than any other. We also operate English language teaching schools in South East Asia._
- We are innovators, driven by the needs of our customers and deep data insights. Our 5,000 team members based around the world understand that our services change lives - not only of our customers, but their wider communities._
- By combining empathy and professional expertise with digital excellence, we create launch pads for our customers to achieve global success._

**POSITION PURPOSE**

IDP accelerated its Digital Transformation journey in 2016 with a major project to implement a suite of leading SaaS platforms. As a result, we have very few on-premises systems and we are taking full advantage of the flexibility of the cloud.

In 2019 IDP reassessed its approach to innovation and made the strategic decision to adopt modern software engineering approaches to accelerate the time to value of our innovations.

We believe we’ve set the right architecture to make our innovation agenda successful:
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- An Event Driven Architecture - we are well advanced in moving our key integrations onto the PubSub pattern with fault tolerance and observability.
- A Micro Services Architecture - Our build out of our MSA is underway as part of a major initiative. We have our first set of Micro-Services built and serving our customer facing products.
- AWS Serverless - We heavily utilize AWS Serverless features provisioned via IaC.
- Machine Learning - IDP has a highly skilled Data Science team under Chief Data Officer that is utilizing the EDA and other data to build advanced intelligence into our processes and outcomes. We already have some of these algorithms making their way into our landscape and driving outcomes.
- Micro Front-End Architecture - Angular components pulling content from our Headless CMS.
- Observability - SumoLogic as our observability platform and SIEM provides great value in managing our environment.
- We are confident that we have the right technology building blocks, we have fantastic business-driven initiatives, and real momentum in our technology agenda.

**You’ll spend time on the following**:
As an Information Architect you will work with product owners and delivery teams that really impact the speed and quality of the innovations IDP delivers to its customers and business.

Deliver High Quality Solutions
- You’ll evaluate high-level business requirements, data and turn them into Information
- Developing structure or information architecture (IA) plan
- Developing prototypes or wireframes to demonstrate IA concepts or design ideas
- Creating metadata schemas to support content tagging and retrieval processes
- Conducting user research to identify pain points and areas of confusion in existing systems
- Creating diagrams that illustrate how data flows between systems in the landscape.
- Communicating with stakeholders to gather requirements for new projects or changes to existing
- Creating a taxonomy of terms and data dictionary
- Work alongside the Data Engineering teams to define and implement the data governance framework / model for IDP

Use Solutioning as a Driver of Quality, Value and Speed

There are always pressures, trade-offs, and challenges. Pragmatism is important, but so is discipline.
- Reinforce “the right way of doing things” continually. You’ll be pragmatic enough to realize not everything can be perfect initially, but you won’t compromise on what really matters.
- IDP has made several core architectural choices including a commitment to an event driven microservices architecture and an overwhelming commitment to security and privacy. You’ll ensure these choices are reflected in IDP’s technical progress.
- Identify and formalize patterns that address IDP use-cases based on Industry patterns
- Be aware of the overall Student Placement, and IDP IELTS, technical landscape to avoid duplication and maximize reuse.
- Identify opportunities to improve IDP’s agility, reduce TCO and tech debt, and increase developer productivity.

Communicate, Contribute and Collaborate

Software is a team sport, so your ability to work with the greater team will be a major factor in your effectiveness.
- You’ll often work on initiatives in their early stages where there is ambiguity and differing opinions. Your ability to bring clarity is a critical value-add in this role.
- Demonstrate a willingness to socialize idea