Job Description

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.

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Key Responsibilities

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

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Tertiary qualifications in a Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering- related discipline

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Required Knowledge / Experience and tools

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- Demonstrated 7+ years of hands-on work experience in a system/platform technical design, software development or system/platform administration field.
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- Outstanding verbal and written communication abilities, including communicating technical and architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
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- Proficiency in analysing business and technical requirements to provide strategic guidance and support decision making.
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- Demonstrated experience in managing and delivering multiple lines of tasking in a resource constrained environment.
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- An eagerness to learn and inspire others.
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- Ability to think critically and respectfully contest ideas to facilitate informed decision-making.
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- Resilience and drive to work independently with minimal supervision to achieve outcomes.
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Desirable

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

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12 Months Contract with 2 x 12 month extensions

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Security Required

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TSPV Security Clearance required

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Location

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Canberra

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Closing date

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Sunday 6 September 2026 by 9am

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