Ready to make a splash in your career? WaterNSW is seeking an experienced Domain Architect - Security (Full-Time, Permanent) to join our Digital Partnerships & Data team. Reporting to the Strategy & Architecture Manager, in this newly created role, you will lead the future of WaterNSW's security architecture and by ensuring security is embedded in design across applications, infrastructure, data, and integrations. You'll enable a resilient and trusted digital environment aligned to business goals and regulatory requirements. You will also be responsible for defining and governing target-state security across cloud, identity, data, integration and operational technology, driving standards, guiding cyber risk controls and protecting the organisation against emerging threats. This is an opportunity to work with an essential organization creating a more sustainable future for the state. This role offers the flexibility to work around life, your contribution will be valued, and you'll be supported to build a rewarding career.

Our perks and Benefits

At WaterNSW, we believe that our employees should be as well taken care of as our rivers, dams, and pipelines, that's why we offer a load of benefits.

- Flexible working
- Work a 9-day fortnight at Full pay on the Enterprise Agreement
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Fertility leave
- Corporate wear allowance
- Professional development and educational assistance
- Salary range from $162,599 - $195,136 base + 12% super
- And so much more

Position Purpose

Provide enterprise-level strategic and technical leadership for WaterNSW's security architecture to ensure that security is embedded by design across applications, infrastructure, data, and integrations. Enable a secure, resilient,



and trusted digital landscape that underpins business outcomes and regulatory compliance, whilst putting safety first.

What you'll do

- Security Architecture Leadership: Design and enforce enterprise security frameworks and standards across systems, applications, and integrations. Define and maintain the enterprise security architecture, aligning with business strategy, risk appetite, and regulatory requirements. Develop and continuously improve security reference architectures, patterns, and roadmaps to support strategic initiatives. Provide subject matter expertise and leadership on enterprise security architecture to business and technology stakeholders, influencing enterprise decision-making and investment priorities.

- Design & Assurance: Ensure solutions are designed and implemented with security embedded by design (applications, infrastructure, data, and integrations). Provide security architecture guidance to solution architects and delivery teams throughout the project lifecycle. Lead security design reviews and assurance activities across multiple programs, ensuring enterprise consistency and traceability to risk frameworks. Conduct design reviews and provide assurance that solutions comply with security standards, regulatory obligations, and enterprise principles.

- Project Delivery Support: Provide security input into solution design, testing,



and delivery. Ensure secure-by-design practices are applied to all initiatives. Proactively identify architectural risks and define mitigation strategies to support program delivery.

- AI Investment & Assurance: Assess security and privacy implications of AI initiatives. Ensure appropriate risk treatments are assigned and tracked to closure in collaboration with the Digital, Cyber & AI Risk Advisor. Drive the development of AI security frameworks and ethical governance models to support emerging technology adoption.

- Governance & Compliance: Ensure security team are delivery in alignment to regulatory, ethical, and risk frameworks. Support and coordinate evidence for audits and risk closure processes.

What we are looking for

- Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- Experience in enterprise security architecture with demonstrated ability to define security architecture patterns, controls and guardrails across cloud, applications, infrastructure, identity, data and integration layers, ensuring solutions are secure by design.
- Robust understanding of cyber risk management, security standards, regulatory obligations, threat modelling, vulnerability management, audit requirements and security assurance across projects and BAU, including assessing the security and privacy implications of AI initiatives and supporting AI security frameworks and ethical governance.
- Deep knowledge of IAM, SSO, MFA, privileged access, zero trust, encryption, network security, logging, monitoring, SIEM, and cloud security controls across platforms suc

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