Location: ACT, NSW, QLD Contract: Initial 6-month contract + 2 x 6-month extension options Security Clearance: NV1 Clearance Required Citizenship: Australian Citizenship Mandatory We are seeking an experienced Solution (Identity) Architect to join a large-scale Federal Government environment and provide expert architectural leadership across complex identity and access management ecosystems. This role is suited to a highly skilled architect with extensive experience delivering enterprise-grade Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions. You will play a key role in shaping identity strategies, driving secure and scalable solution design, and ensuring alignment with security, privacy, operational and government compliance requirements.

Key Responsibilities - Lead the design and evolution of enterprise digital identity, authentication, authorisation and account management solutions.

- Develop and maintain architecture artefacts including solution architectures, high-level designs, integration patterns, architecture decision records and technical roadmaps.
- Provide architecture governance, assurance and technical leadership across project and operational initiatives.
- Define and promote architecture standards, solution patterns and non-functional requirements including security, resilience, scalability, availability and supportability.
- Collaborate with delivery teams, developers, operational support teams, security specialists, vendors and business stakeholders.
- Assess solution options and provide recommendations balancing business outcomes, risk, cost, maintainability and user experience.
- Support procurement activities, project planning, estimation and architecture reviews.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, security frameworks and government standards.
- Identify technical risks and contribute to mitigation, operational readiness and transition planning activities.




- Support successful transition of solutions into business-as-usual operations.

Essential

Skills and Experience - Demonstrated experience as a Solution Architect or Identity Architect within large and complex enterprise environments.

- Extensive experience designing and implementing IAM and CIAM solutions.
- Strong experience delivering secure authentication, authorisation, federation and customer account management capabilities.
- Proven expertise with cloud-based identity platforms, Microsoft identity technologies and modern authentication frameworks.
- Experience producing architecture artefacts including solution designs, integration designs and architecture decision records.
- Strong architecture governance, assurance and design review experience.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working within Agile and multidisciplinary delivery environments.
- Strong understanding of security, privacy, compliance and risk management within regulated environments.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively across projects, operational teams, vendors and senior stakeholders.

Desirable

Skills and Qualifications - Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science or related disciplines.

- Architecture certifications such as TOGAF, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or similar.
- Identity and Access Management certifications.
- Experience working within Australian Government environments.
- Knowledge of government security frameworks and digital identity requirements.
- Hands-on experience with:
- Microsoft Azure - Microsoft Entra ID - CIAM platforms - OAuth 2.0 - OpenID Connect (OIDC) - SAML - Experience supporting large-scale digital transformation and identity modernisation programs. What's on Offer?
- Long-term Federal Government contract opportunity.
- Initial 6-month engagement with extension options.
- Opportunity to work on complex enterprise identity solutions.
- Collaborative, high-performing delivery workplace.
- Locations available across ACT, NSW and QLD.

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