IT Enterprise Design Authority

The IT Enterprise Design Authority (IT EDA) aims to support effective development of IT solutions that meet strategic objectives, fit within the overall IT landscape, and are sustainable and maintainable.

Objectives

• Ensure UQ’s IT Landscapes are planned according to the UQ Technology Master Plan and Technology Strategies. 
• Review Technology Strategies to ensure they are achievable, consistent with other strategies, complete and relevant. 
• Assess and align proposed new solutions to the relevant TMP Roadmaps, IT Landscapes, Technology Principles and Technology Strategies. 
• Ensure proposed solution architecture designs support the articulated conceptual architecture, Technology Strategies, architecture principles and standards, guidelines and best practices. 
• Develop key architectural standards, principles and other decisions to be used in guiding UQ’s architecture practices. 

Responsibilities

• Endorse Goal Target Architectures and IT Landscapes to respective Goal Governance Committees for approval. 
• Endorse Technology Strategies to TMPC for approval. 
• Approve Conceptual Architecture Designs. 
• Approve Solution Architecture Designs. 
• Approve and periodically review Architecture Standards (e.g. cyber controls, guardrails, patterns) and decisions. 
• Approve and periodically review Non-functional Requirements register (to be used in procurement, new solution design, etc.) 
• Manage the Technical Debt Register. 

Where necessary, the IT Enterprise Design Authority may escalate unresolved matters to the CIO.

Reporting

The IT Enterprise Design Authority shall report annually to the Goal E/F Governance Committee on at least:

• Architecture decisions and standards
• Architecture risks
• Technical debt incurred.

Membership

• Associate Director, IT Planning and Architecture (Chair)
• Associate Director, Data Services (Deputy Chair)
• Associate Director, IT Application Development Support
• Associate Director, Enterprise Applications
• Senior Manager, Strategic Design and Delivery
• Senior Manager, Infrastructure Design & Innovation
• Security Architect

Additional staff may be asked to join periodically to provide specific expertise.

Meeting Processes

• Meets monthly
• Attendance is defined as in-person, by phone, by video call
• 60% of members must be in attendance
• Meetings can be held out of session for ad-hoc decisions and items for noting
• Meetings can be cancelled at the discretion of the chair
• Submissions may be approved, not approved, or asked to return with further information
• IT EDA records are stored in SharePoint and UQ Plan IT

Agenda submission

Email IT Governance and Investment regarding agenda submissions or committee enquiries.