Seeking a Solution Architects 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
Desirable Qualifications
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
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:
Sunday 6 September 2026 by 9am
Call Joanne Finchett on 0480 002454 or email Joanne@whizdom.com.au for any further information
