Key duties and responsibilities
- Defining, developing, and leading the vision, strategy, target state, roadmap, and decision support for one or more infrastructure capabilities (Facilities, Storage, Compute, Network, enabling Platforms).
- Providing high quality advice to senior stakeholders and contributing to the decision support and wider strategic planning of the Department ensuring alignment with best practices, cost optimisation and business goals.
- Engaging with Subject Matter Experts to support organizational outcomes.
- Designing, developing, and/or leading appropriate architectural artefacts.
- Driving innovation.
- Extending Technology Architecture frameworks and governance processes.
- Providing design assurance, fit for purpose integration, and ensuring adherence with architectural strategy, principles, and practices.
Extensive architecture experience across one or more of technology domains: data centres, infrastructure platforms(Power, X86, Mainframe, Virtualisation), networking systems, surveillance and communication systems, storage systems(performance, data protection), collaboration platforms(MS Teams), contact centre solutions(Genesys or Amazon Connect), End user computing design(MoEs, Windows 11, Microsoft 365) to create ICT architecture designs, patterns, blueprints, roadmaps and solution designs.
Essential criteria
1.Emerging technology monitoring: Level 6 (SFIA)
Plans and leads the identification and assessment of emerging technologies and the evaluation of potential impacts, threats and opportunities. Creates technology roadmaps that align organisational plans with emerging technology solutions. Engages with, and influences, relevant stakeholders to obtain organisational commitment to technology roadmaps. Develops organisational guidelines for monitoring emerging technologies. Collaborates with internal and external parties to facilitate intelligence gathering.
2.Information security: Level 3 (SFIA)
Applies and maintains specific security controls as required by organisational policy and local risk assessments. Communicates security risks and issues to business managers and others. Performs basic risk assessments for small information systems. Contributes to the identification of risks that arise from potential technical solution architectures. Suggests alternate solutions or countermeasures to mitigate risks. Defines secure systems configurations in compliance with intended architectures. Supports investigation of suspected attacks and security breaches.
3.Innovation: Level 5 (SFIA)
Manages the innovation pipeline and executes innovation processes. Develops and adapts innovation tools, processes and infrastructures to drive the process of innovation. Identifies resources and capabilities needed to support innovation. Encourages and motivates innovation communities, teams and individuals to share creative ideas and learn from failures. Manages and facilitates the communication and open flow of creative ideas between interested parties and the set-up of innovation networks and communities.
4.Solution architecture: Level 4 (SFIA)
Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability. Determines and documents architecturally significant decisions. Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products. Supports projects or change initiatives through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles. Aligns solutions with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
5.Specialist advice: Level 5 (SFIA)
Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area. Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others. Consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third-party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives. Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.
6.Systems design: Level 5 (SFIA)
Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.
Desirable criteria
1.Consultancy: Level 6 (SFIA)
Manages the provision of consultancy services and/or a team of consultants. In own areas of expertise, provides advice and guidance to consultants and/or the client when delivering consultancy services. Engages with clients and maintains client relationships. Establishes consultancy agreements/contracts and manages completion and disengagement.
2.Enterprise and business architecture: Level 5 (SFIA)
Develops models and plans to drive the execution of the business strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance. Contributes to creating and reviewing a systems capability strategy which meets the business's strategic requirements. Determines requirements and specifies effective business processes, through improvements in technology, information or data practices, organisation, roles, procedures and equipment.
3.Network design: Level 6 (SFIA)
Takes responsibility for major aspects of network specification, standards, technologies and overall network design models within the organisation. Produces network design policies, principles and criteria covering connectivity, capacity, interfacing, security, resilience, recovery and access.
4.Requirements definition and management: Level 4 (SFIA)
Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity. Contributes to selecting the requirements approach. Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements. Establishes requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
Contract: Contract to 30 June 2026 with 2 x 12 months extension
Security Required: Baseline security Clearance required
Location- Canberra and Hybrid - Contractors must be on-site in Canberra at least 3 days per week.
How to Apply - Please upload your resume to apply. 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
Closing date: Tuesday 9 December 2025 by 9am
Call Joanne Finchett on 0480 002454 or email Joanne@whizdom.com.au for any further information
