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.
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!
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.
- Strong 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 such as Azure and hybrid environments.
- Solid background in working with senior stakeholders, influencing decision-making, and balancing security with business outcomes.
- Current NSW Drivers Licence.
Application contact details
If you have questions or would like to learn more about this role, please reach out to the contact below:
Contact
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Contact email
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Application close date
30 October 2026 at 11:59pm
📌 Domain Architect - Security (Parramatta)
🏢 Waternsw
📍 Parramatta