This paper examines a meeting of mindsets at the University of Melbourne, and how digital preservation and enterprise architecture have joined forces to meet goals of the university’s Digital Preservation Strategy 2015-2025. We identify the points of connection and similarities between digital preservation and enterprise architecture. We explore how a core foundation for university-wide infrastructure implementation is being achieved through effective collaboration between the Scholarly Services-based Digital Scholarship team at the university (the team responsible for driving digital preservation project work) and the Infrastructure Services-based Enterprise Architecture unit. We investigate the similarities and differences in approach for these two diverse business units within the university context and identify how collaboration between digital preservation and enterprise architecture can continue to drive mutually beneficial digital preservation operations at the university.