Senior Technical Anchor:
Take on the lead technical role driving a critical, large-scale application modernisation and migration initiative within our Federal Government client.
Complex Estate Transformation:
Guide the strategic discovery and technical solution design to transition a 15-year legacy estate-consisting of tightly coupled applications, Oracle databases, and custom CRM workloads-into modern, cloud-managed infrastructure.
What's on Offer
Contract/Engagement:
Initial 12-month contract with potential extension options.
Location & Flexibility:
Canberra, ACT (Hybrid flexibility available).
Role & Responsibilities
Lead Discovery & Assessment:
Spearhead the deep-dive assessment and technical discovery of highly customised legacy applications, data structures, and complex integrations.
Solution Architecture & Design:
Author detailed, robust solution designs aligned with approved departmental target architectures, prioritizing modern cloud-native platforms like Microsoft Azure.
Define Migration Strategies:
Outline precise migration approaches, deployment models, and transition requirements for individual workloads.
Security & Resilience Engineering:
Formulate robust architecture patterns focused on enterprise security, system resilience, and sustainable operational support models.
Navigate Technical Governance:
Champion technical designs through formal architecture assurance and change control boards to achieve institutional endorsement.
Technical Mentorship & Risk Mitigation:




Proactively identify, track, and mitigate technical architectural risks while providing high-level mentorship across a blended engineering team.
Skills & Experience
To be successful in this position, you will ideally bring:
Technical Toolkit:
Deep Azure architecture and engineering expertise, with a proven ability to provide rigorous design-through-to-build assurance.
Migration Leadership:
Extensive experience leading complex application migration programs, specifically across hybrid Oracle and Microsoft technology estates.
Government Frameworks:
Strong capability in compiling technical design documentation to strict Commonwealth standards, alongside experience navigating formal Australian Public Service (APS) governance.
Collaborative Mindset:
The qualified maturity to successfully operate within established departmental architecture assurance models rather than owning the overarching enterprise architecture outright.
Desirable Background:
TOGAF (or equivalent) certification, familiarity with ISM and PSPF security frameworks, or a deep technical specialization within either Dynamics CRM or Oracle platforms.
Eligibility & Clearance Requirements
Security Clearance:
Due to the secure nature of this federal government environment, candidates
must hold a current Australian Government Security Clearance
or, at minimum, be an Australian Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain one.
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📌 Technical Lead/Solution Architect (Canberra)
🏢 Aurec Group
📍 Canberra