Lead Solution Architect

Canberra, Australia Posted on 09/10/2026

The Lead Solution Architect leads a small team of SolutionArchitects within the CER's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment, ensuring technologysolutions are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and aligned with businessobjectives, enterprise architecture principles, and the CER technologystrategy.

• Lead,mentor, and develop a team of Solution Architects, providing technicalleadership, architectural direction, and quality assurance across solutiondesign activities.
• Overseethe design and assurance of end-to-end technology solutions that meet business,security, performance, integration, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaboratewith business and technical stakeholders, to understand needs and translate requirementsinto solution architectures, and support informed decision-making.
• Developand maintain solution architecture artefacts, including designs, diagrams,architectural decisions, and governance documentation.
• Providearchitecture governance and delivery oversight, ensuring solutions align withenterprise architecture standards, reusable patterns, and the CER target state.
• Contributeto enterprise architecture planning and roadmaps, aligning current deliverypriorities with the CER's future-state business and technology strategy.
• Drivecontinuous improvement by evaluating technologies, processes, and practices,including emerging Microsoft technologies and their applicability to the CERenvironment.
• Minimum5 years' experience in software, solution, or system architecture role withingovernment or regulated environments, including the development of end-to-endsolution designs, architectural artefacts.
• Atleast three 3 years demonstrated experience leading solution architecture teamsor practices, including providing technical leadership, assuring the quality ofarchitecture deliverables, mentoring and driving architecture capabilityuplift.
• Demonstratedexperience working within scaled agile environments, including participation inProgram Increment (PI) Planning and feature assessment, facilitating architecture team scrum events, andarchitecture work prioritisation.
• Strong knowledge of architecture governance,technology evaluation, and technical risk frameworks (e.g. SABSA, TOGAF), andexperience in integrating emerging technologies, including ArtificialIntelligence (AI) into existing enterprise architecture and technologyecosystems.
• Provenability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technicaland non-technical stakeholders, and to support delivery teams to documentArchitecture Decision Records (ADRs) and architectural decision papers.
• Experiencedesigning and governing solutions leveraging Microsoft technology stack,including:
• Azure services and cloud-nativearchitectures
• Relevantprofessional certifications, such as TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect Expert,Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and relevant Microsoft certifications.
• Relevanttertiary qualifications in Information Systems, Computer Science, SoftwareEngineering, or a related discipline.
• Currentknowledge of Australian Government security (e.g. PSPF, ISM), privacy, digital,records management, and responsible AI requirements.