Seeking a Solution Architects with 7+ years of hands-on work experience in a system/platform technical design, software development or system/platform administration field.

Key Responsibilities

Lead Architecture Outcomes for Operational Maturity: Drive a strategic approach to technology investment that prioritises the delivery of a seamless, secure, and integrated digital ecosystem, ensuring technical output aligns directly with business value.

- Drive Technology Rationalisation: Ensure all proposed technical solutions align with the Branch's strategic priorities-specifically reducing technical debt, eliminating ecosystem redundancy, and accelerating the transition to a high-velocity cloud setting.

- Institutionalise Technical Knowledge: Develop and maintain a centralised repository of reference architectures, standards, and blueprints to eliminate

Key-person risk and provide repeatable, optimised frameworks for service delivery.

- Enable Innovation and Velocity: Identify and integrate emerging technologies and intelligent automation to pivot human capital from repetitive sustainment tasks toward strategic, high-impact initiatives.

- Mitigate Systemic Operational Risk: Proactively identify and manage architectural risks and critical dependencies, ensuring enterprise resilience and the stability of corporate workflows.

- Foster a Collaborative Enablement Culture: Build strategic partnerships across the technical cohort and external agency partners to optimise organisational throughput and ensure a cohesive approach to digital ecosystem delivery.

Mandatory Qualifications

Tertiary qualifications in a Computer Science,



Information Technology, or Engineering- related discipline

Desirable Qualifications

Required Knowledge/Experience and tools

- Demonstrated 7+ years of hands-on work experience in a system/platform

technical design, software development or system/platform administration field.

- Outstanding verbal and written communication abilities, including communicating technical and architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Proficiency in analysing business and technical requirements to provide strategic guidance and support decision making.

- Demonstrated experience in managing and delivering multiple lines of tasking in a resource constrained environment.

- An eagerness to learn and inspire others.

- Ability to think critically and respectfully contest ideas to facilitate informed decision-making.

- Resilience and drive to work independently with minimal supervision to achieve outcomes.

Desirable:

- Enterprise and Business Architecture-Level 5 • Strategic Planning (ITSP) - Level 4 • Business Process Improvement (BPRE) - Level 4

Contract: 12 Months Contract with 2 x 12 month extensions

Security Required: TSPV Security Clearance required

Location - Canberra

How to Apply - Please upload your resume to apply. Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks

Closing date: Sunday 6 September 2026 by 9am

Call Joanne Finchett on 0480 002454 or email [email protected] for any further information

📌 Solution Architect (Canberra)
🏢 Whizdom Recruitment
📍 Canberra