Key Accountabilities Key accountabilities for the role include:

- Ensure Solution Architectures are compliant with customer's Security Policies, Standards, Patterns, & Principles with deviations appropriately managed using customer risk management frameworks and processes.
- Perform a Security Quality Assurance function and support operational readiness processes.
- Comply with customer Business Principles, Values, Code of Conduct and policies and procedures.
- Mentor Security Architects.
- Produce security architecture patterns and guidelines.
- SME in one or more security domains.
- Communicate and influence at an executive level.
- Manage high complexity programs of work.

Qualifications/Experiences

Essential

- Extensive experience (8+ years) in providing complex security solutions, including security requirement elaboration, security controls definition and security threat/risk assessment.




- Experience in solving enterprise-scale security problems involving high levels of ambiguity.
- Experience in developing and/or contributing to architecture or technology strategy.
- Tertiary qualifications in IT, Engineering or complementary discipline.

Highly Desirable

- Industry certifications, for example:
- Security/Risk Management: CRISC, CISSP, CISM, SABSA.
- Networking: CCNP, CCIP, CCIE.
- Cloud: CCSP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, MS Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- Others: TOGAF, ITIL, COBIT 5.
- Experience with Agile and DevOps.
- Knowledge and experience in IT systems planning, design and technical architecture.
- Experience in designing Service Oriented and RESTful architectures.
- Experience in securing Agentic AI solutions.
- Experience in designing secure cloud-based solutions.

📌 Lead Security Architect (Sydney)
🏢 Ad Astra Consultants
📍 Sydney