Canberra, Australia | Posted on 09/10/2026
The Lead Solution Architect leads a small team of SolutionArchitects within the CER's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) setting, ensuring technologysolutions are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and aligned with businessobjectives, enterprise architecture principles, and the CER technologystrategy.
Requirements
Key responsibilities:
Lead,mentor, and develop a team of Solution Architects, providing technicalleadership, architectural direction, and quality assurance across solutiondesign activities.
Overseethe design and assurance of end-to-end technology solutions that meet business,security, performance, integration, and regulatory requirements.
Collaboratewith business and technical stakeholders, to understand needs and translate requirementsinto solution architectures, and support informed decision-making.
Developand maintain solution architecture artefacts, including designs, diagrams,architectural decisions, and governance documentation.
Providearchitecture governance and delivery oversight, ensuring solutions align withenterprise architecture standards, reusable patterns, and the CER target state.
Contributeto enterprise architecture planning and roadmaps, aligning current deliverypriorities with the CER's future-state business and technology strategy.
Drivecontinuous improvement by evaluating technologies, processes, and practices,including emerging Microsoft technologies and their applicability to the CERenvironment.
Minimum5 years' experience in software, solution, or system architecture role withingovernment or regulated environments,



including the development of end-to-endsolution designs, architectural artefacts.
Atleast three 3 years demonstrated experience leading solution architecture teamsor practices, including providing technical leadership, assuring the quality ofarchitecture deliverables, mentoring and driving architecture capabilityuplift.
Demonstratedexperience working within scaled agile environments, including participation inProgram Increment (PI) Planning and feature assessment, facilitating architecture team scrum events, andarchitecture work prioritisation.
Strong knowledge of architecture governance,technology evaluation, and technical risk frameworks (e.g. SABSA, TOGAF), andexperience in integrating emerging technologies, including ArtificialIntelligence (AI) into existing enterprise architecture and technologyecosystems.
Provenability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technicaland non-technical stakeholders, and to support delivery teams to documentArchitecture Decision Records (ADRs) and architectural decision papers.
Experiencedesigning and governing solutions leveraging Microsoft technology stack,including:
Azure services and cloud-nativearchitectures
Relevantprofessional certifications, such as TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect Expert,Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and relevant Microsoft certifications.
Relevanttertiary qualifications in Information Systems, Computer Science, SoftwareEngineering, or a related discipline.
Currentknowledge of Australian Government security (e.g. PSPF, ISM), privacy, digital,records management, and responsible AI requirements.
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