Our client is a key national security agency within the Defence portfolio, dedicated to safeguarding Australia against global threats and advancing national interests. They deliver cutting-edge capabilities through foreign signals intelligence, cyber security, and offensive cyber operations, supporting the Australian Government’s strategic objectives.
About the Client
Our client is a critical national security organisation within the Defence portfolio. They play a vital role in protecting Australia from global threats and enabling secure, intelligence‑led decision‑making for government. Their work spans foreign signals intelligence, advanced cyber capabilities, and the safeguarding of Australia’s digital landscape.
Joining this organisation means contributing to complex, meaningful, high‑impact national missions in an environment that values integrity, technical excellence and a strong sense of purpose.
About the Role
We are seeking two Lead Business Architects to drive the development and evolution of enterprise-wide business architecture models that shape future business processes, ICT systems, and organisational capability.
You’ll be instrumental in aligning business strategy with enterprise transformation activities, ensuring that technology directions and business objectives remain tightly integrated. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you’ll help guide decisions on strategic capability, design future-state operating models, and influence the organisation’s architectural governance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Translating business strategies and objectives into scalable operating models.
- Assessing current enterprise capabilities and identifying pathways to reach target states.
- Creating, iterating and maintaining architectural models and views that support future organisational evolution.
- Embedding enterprise architecture practices to support agile and iterative delivery.
- Interpreting business drivers and documenting constraints, standards and principles.
- Supporting organisational transformation across structure, processes, information, data and systems.
- Providing guidance on cloud‑based opportunities and benefits.
- Validating requirements, ensuring solution alignment with enterprise standards, and contributing to both HLDs and DDDs.
- Maintaining architectural artefacts and ensuring effective knowledge transfer to internal staff.
The Successful Candidate
You are an experienced Business Architect with a proven track record operating at the enterprise level in complex ICT environments. You bring a strategic mindset, excellent stakeholder capability, and strong modelling and analytical skills.
You will have:
- 6+ years’ experience in business architecture or closely related roles.
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles and the role of the Business Architect.
- Strong experience leading business process improvement initiatives and driving innovative approaches to organisational change.
- Proven capability aligning technology strategy to business mission and documenting this through architectural models.
- Demonstrated experience in business modelling across processes, data and roles to support decision‑making.
- Experience assessing emerging technologies and providing strategic advice on their applicability.
- Strong stakeholder relationship management skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate successful outcomes.
- Business Process Modelling
- Value Stream Mapping
- TOGAF 10
- ArchiMate 3.2
- Orbus iServer
- Power BI
- Microsoft Visio
Candidates must also be willing to undergo an Organisational Suitability Assessment (OSA) prior to engagement.
Why partner with Whizdom?
We’re Whizdom. We view you as an extension of our strong, dependable brand and have differentiators which really are different! The Whizdom way:
- We pay our contractors same day you submit your timesheet!
- We are Level 3, DISP certified and have signed the Veteran Employment Commitment and been awarded the highest level of compliance to this important initiative, proactively assisting veterans transitioning from the forces to civilian roles. We’ve been lucky enough to win industry awards for our high level of process compliance and are ISO 9001 certified. Our commitment to reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions has been accredited in line with large global organisations.
- We value diversity and welcome applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability.
Location: The role is based in Canberra ACT.
Contract terms: 12 months from commencement date, plus potential extensions
Security Requirements: Current Top-Secret Positive Vetting (TSPV) security clearance is strongly preferred, however candidates who have held a TSPV in the previous 12-month period (which has since been downgraded) may be considered. An OSA(Organisational Suitability Assessment) will be required for this position.
How to Apply: Please upload your resume to apply. Please note you will need to complete selection criteria to complete this application process. We will be in touch with instructions for suitably skilled candidates.
Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks.
Applications open until 8am 18 March 2026.
Reach Damien on 0480 002 503 or damienm@whizdom.com.au for any further information.
