Solution Architect

Seeking a Solution Architect with 7+ years of hands-on work experience in a system/platform technical design, software development or system/platform administration field.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Architecture Outcomes for Operational Maturity: Drive a strategic approach to technology investment that prioritises the delivery of a seamless, secure, and integrated digital ecosystem, ensuring technical output aligns directly with business value.
• Drive Technology Rationalisation: Ensure all proposed technical solutions align with the Branch's strategic priorities-specifically reducing technical debt, eliminating ecosystem redundancy, and accelerating the transition to a high-velocity cloud environment.
• Institutionalise Technical Knowledge: Develop and maintain a centralised repository of reference architectures, standards, and blueprints to eliminate Key-person risk and provide repeatable, optimised frameworks for service delivery.
• Enable Innovation and Velocity: Identify and integrate emerging technologies and intelligent automation to pivot human capital from repetitive sustainment tasks toward strategic, high-impact initiatives.
• Mitigate Systemic Operational Risk: Proactively identify and manage architectural risks and critical dependencies, ensuring enterprise resilience and the stability of corporate workflows.
• Foster a Collaborative Enablement Culture: Build strategic partnerships across the technical cohort and external agency partners to optimise organisational throughput and ensure a cohesive approach to digital ecosystem delivery.

Mandatory Qualifications

Tertiary qualifications in a Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering- related discipline

Required Knowledge / Experience and tools

• Demonstrated 7+ years of hands-on work experience in a system/platform technical design, software development or system/platform administration field.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication abilities, including communicating technical and architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proficiency in analysing business and technical requirements to provide strategic guidance and support decision making.
• Demonstrated experience in managing and delivering multiple lines of tasking in a resource constrained environment.
• An eagerness to learn and inspire others.
• Ability to think critically and respectfully contest ideas to facilitate informed decision-making.
• Resilience and drive to work independently with minimal supervision to achieve outcomes.

Desirable

• Enterprise and Business Architecture-Level 5
• Strategic Planning (ITSP) - Level 4
• Business Process Improvement (BPRE) - Level 4

Contract

12 Months Contract with 2 x 12 month extensions

Security Required

TSPV Security Clearance required

Location

Canberra

Closing date

Sunday 6 September 2026 by 9am