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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 explicit 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.

Required Skills:

Data Support Development Options Architects Stakeholder Engagement Collaboration Digital Transformation Assurance Business Requirements Deliverables Government Architecture Continuous Improvement Infrastructure Integration Security Planning Design Business Communication

📌 Multiple Enterprise / Solution Architect (Canberra)
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📍 Canberra