Australian Citizens residing in Australia only respond.

Key duties and responsibilities

Enterprise architecture responsibilities

• Design and implement an enterprise architecture framework tailored to the departments needs.

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artefacts such as business capability models, target state architectures, technology roadmaps, and technical landscape overviews.

• Support and strengthen architecture governance to enable consistent, scalable, and well‑assured technology decisions.

• Translate strategic objectives, policy drivers, and investment priorities into actionable enterprise architecture guidance.

• Provide authoritative architecture advice to support portfolio planning, investment proposals, and whole‑of‑government alignment.

Solution architecture responsibilities

• Lead or assure the development of end‑to‑end solution architectures for digital and ICT initiatives, from discovery through to delivery.

• Produce and review solution architecture artefacts including high‑level designs, detailed designs, options analyses, and architectural assessments.

• Ensure solution designs align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and whole‑of‑government policies.

• Work collaboratively with delivery teams, platform specialists, cyber security, and business stakeholders to design fit‑for‑purpose, sustainable solutions.

• Identify architectural risks, constraints, and dependencies and provide clear recommendations to support informed decision‑making.

Capability uplift and collaboration

• Collaborate across business and ICT to ensure architecture is understood, adopted, and applied consistently.

• Coach and support architects, delivery teams, and stakeholders in applying architecture best practices.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of architecture capability, tools, patterns, and guidance across the department.

Criteria

The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.

Essential criteria

• 1.5+ years experience operating as an Enterprise Architect and/or Solution Architect, ideally within Australian Government environments. Demonstrated ability to work across both enterprise‑level strategic architecture and solution‑level design and assurance.
• 2.Proven experience developing enterprise architecture artefacts and solution architectures in complex environments. Demonstrated experience translating strategic objectives and business requirements into actionable architecture deliverables.
• 3.Strong understanding of architecture principles, practices, and governance, and the ability to apply them pragmatically.
• 4.Experience designing end‑to‑end solutions across application, data, integration, infrastructure/cloud, and security domains.
• 5.Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills across business and technical audiences.
• 6.Deep understanding of Australian Government digital policies, architecture standards, and whole‑of‑government strategies, including alignment with Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) requirements.