About the Consultancy
Join a leading international consultancy delivering large‑scale digital, cloud, and enterprise architecture transformation programs across government and regulated industries worldwide. Our teams partner with organisations to modernise critical platforms, uplift architecture maturity, and deliver secure, scalable, and future‑ready solutions.
About the End Client
The end client is a major public sector organisation undertaking significant digital and technology transformation initiatives. This role supports the delivery of secure, resilient, and cloud‑based solutions across multiple business units, operating within a highly regulated and mission‑critical environment.
About the Role
An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Solution Architect (Cloud) to lead the creation and delivery of cloud‑based solution architectures across a portfolio of complex initiatives. You will play a key role in driving digital transformation by translating business requirements into fit‑for‑purpose, secure, and scalable technical designs aligned to enterprise architecture standards.
This is a senior architecture role with no direct reports, focused on technical leadership, governance, and stakeholder engagement across project and BAU environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse current and future solution architectures to ensure initiatives meet business and technical requirements.
- Develop solution architectures and technical designs aligned to enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and governance.
- Ensure cloud solutions align with strategic technology roadmaps and investment priorities.
- Lead and facilitate design workshops, architecture reviews, and stakeholder presentations.
- Work closely with architects, developers, testers, and delivery teams to resolve design and implementation challenges.
- Provide technical leadership across cloud, integration, and hybrid environments.
- Support vendor evaluations, solution options analysis, and technology selection activities.
- Identify, assess, and document architectural risks and mitigation strategies.
- Design secure integration platforms for on‑premise and cloud‑based services.
- Contribute SME input into identity management, authentication, and role‑based access models.
- Maintain high‑quality architecture artefacts and documentation in enterprise tooling environments.
- Balancing evolving business requirements with current and future cloud capabilities.
- Ensuring alignment across multiple architectural domains and delivery teams.
- Managing dependencies and risks across hybrid cloud and on‑premise environments.
- Maintaining quality, consistency, and governance across architecture artefacts.
- Leading effective engagement with vendors, partners, and diverse internal stakeholders.
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience in solution architecture and design, preferably within cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of TOGAF(certification or equivalent highly desirable).
- Experience across:
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Digital technology and development
- Service‑Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Proven experience delivering large‑scale solutions, including projects valued at $10M+.
- Strong integration architecture experience including iPaaS, API gateways, ESB, ETL, and REST‑based technologies.
- Hands‑on experience designing solutions on AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
- Knowledge of Salesforce and BPM platforms is highly desirable.
- Awareness of emerging technologies, cloud security, and digital industry trends.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Project and Microsoft Office tools.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong communication skills across technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Proven stakeholder management and relationship‑building capability.
- Strong leadership, influence, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to operate effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities.
- Analytical, problem‑solving mindset with sound judgement.
- Resilience and confidence when dealing with complex or high‑risk scenarios.
- Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident, or New Zealand Citizen.
- Baseline Security Clearance required.
- Standard pre‑employment checks apply.
- 40‑hour working week.
- Opportunity to work on enterprise‑critical cloud transformation initiatives.
- Long‑term contract through June 2026 with strong extension potential.
- International consultancy environment with deep architecture capability.
- Exposure to complex hybrid cloud, integration, and security architectures.
- Senior‑level role with real influence on technology direction and outcomes.
Please upload your CV to apply. Suitable candidates will be contacted with next steps and may be required to complete additional selection criteria.
For further information, contact:
📞 Farbar Siddiq – 0489 922 211
📧 farbars@whizdom.com.au
Candidates must be willing to undergo pre‑employment and security screening as required.
