Driving Digital Transformation and Security with a Product Mindset

In this interview, Imran Merchant, Director, Enterprise Architecture – Architecture Branch – Digital Solutions Division at Australian Digital Health Agency, highlights his 22-year journey in the industry, with a focus on enterprise architecture over the past 15 years. He explains that enterprise architecture is about integrating various elements—business, data, application and technology—into a cohesive system that aligns current and target states. This enables organisations to move strategically from planning to execution. Imran emphasises that enterprise architecture is essential for driving digital business transformation by leveraging technology to add value to customers.

Imran underscores the importance of security in enterprise architecture, advocating for a “security by design” approach. He believes collaboration between architects and security professionals is vital, starting at the inception of any project rather than at the implementation stage. By fostering a cross-functional working group, including business, data, and security teams, organisations can build secure, well-designed solutions that prevent…