Location: QLD, ACT, VIC, NSW, SA

Contract tenure: 12 months with 1 extension of 12 months

Work arrangement: Hybrid

NV1 Clearance is required

EL2 Equivalent

WE PAY WEEKLY

About the Opportunity

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced EL2 Program Architect to play a critical leadership role within a major digital transformation and fraud prevention program supporting a nationally significant initiative.

Reporting at the executive leadership level, you will provide strategic architectural oversight across a complex portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment between business objectives, enterprise architecture, cyber security requirements, and technology delivery outcomes.

This role offers the chance to shape enterprise-scale architecture roadmaps, influence strategic decision-making, and mentor a team of highly skilled solution and cyber architects while contributing to innovative digital services, data platforms, and compliance capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

As the EL2 Program Architect, you will:

- Develop and maintain an integrated program architecture roadmap that brings together multiple solution and cyber architecture designs.
- Provide a holistic architectural view across a complex project portfolio, identifying dependencies, integration points, and delivery risks.
- Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure alignment with organisational strategies, standards, policies, principles, and roadmaps.
- Lead architectural governance activities, facilitating design reviews and technical decision-making forums.
- Provide mentoring, coaching,



and quality assurance support to experienced Solution and Cyber Architects.
- Deliver high-quality solution architecture designs that are scalable, secure, and aligned to business outcomes.
- Provide strategic leadership and expert advice on architecture and cyber security strategy.
- Collaborate with senior business leaders and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of program objectives.
- Maintain technical oversight across project delivery and assist in resolving complex architectural challenges.
- Present architecture solutions and recommendations to governance boards and executive stakeholders for approval.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

- Extensive experience in enterprise, program, or solution architecture within large and complex environments.
- Solid understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, governance, and design principles.
- Proven experience leading architecture activities across large-scale digital transformation programs.
- Experience mentoring and guiding Solution Architects and Cyber Architects.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence executive-level decision-making.




- Demonstrated experience delivering architecture outcomes across data platforms, digital services, portals, and integration programs.
- Strong knowledge of security, risk, compliance, and architectural best practices.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

Desirable Experience

Highly regarded experience includes:

- Government or public sector experience.
- Fraud detection, compliance, integrity, or risk management programs.
- Complex data and analytics platforms.
- Digital service delivery and customer-facing portal solutions.
- Large-scale transformation and modernisation initiatives.

Divya Arora
Consultant

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