Seeking a Solution Architect 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 environment.
- 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
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 workplace.
- 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