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Solution Architects are responsible for the quality of solution architecture work across an organisation. They provide technical leadership in the design and implementation of systems and software to solve business problems.

Key duties and responsibilities

- Lead the development of end-to-end solution architectures for EKMS and SMS capabilities, ensuring alignment with ASD security, operational and enterprise architecture requirements.
- Design secure architectures supporting cryptographic key lifecycle management, secret storage, certificate management, privileged access integration and automated key rotation processes.
- Produce and maintain architecture artefacts including solution designs, security models, integration patterns, infrastructure designs, data flows and technical roadmaps.
- Conduct architecture assessments, option analyses and technology evaluations, providing recommendations that balance security, performance, scalability, risk and operational supportability.
- Collaborate with security architects, engineers, project managers, business stakeholders and vendors to ensure successful implementation and integration of EKMS and SMS solutions.
- Provide architectural governance and assurance through design reviews, technical review boards, security assessments and project governance forums.
- Identify and manage architecture risks, dependencies and technical debt, ensuring compliance with ASD security policies, Australian Government requirements and industry best practices.
- Oversee implementation of KMS and secret management platforms, ensuring secure integration with existing enterprise systems.
- Design integration patterns for applications, CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, and cloud services to consume secrets securely.




- Lead proof-of-concept activities and pilot deployments to validate architectural decisions.
- Develop migration strategies from legacy key/credential management approaches to modern centralised platforms.
- Ensure solution comply with the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), Information Security Manual (ISM), and relevant Australian Government security standards.
- Implement zero-trust principles and defence-in-depth strategies for cryptographic material protection.
- Design audit, logging and monitoring capabilities for key usage, access and lifecycle events.
- Support accreditation and certification activities, producing required security documentation.
- Contribute to the development of key management policies, procedures and operational playbooks.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to implementation team and ASD junior staff.
- Conduct architectural reviews and risk assessments for proposed solutions.

Technical Skills:

A minimum 10 years of experiences in leading solution architecture activities for complex enterprise security, infrastructure, cloud or cyber security programs and projects.

Proven experience designing and integrating enterprise key management, secrets management, identity and access management, PKI or cryptographic security solutions.

Robust understanding of enterprise architecture methodologies, security architecture frameworks and system integration principles within large-scale ICT environments.

Experience designing secure solutions across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments, including high-availability, resilience and disaster recovery considerations.

Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including the ability to influence senior executives, governance boards and technical teams.

Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

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