Architect / Technical Leadership & Engineering | 12-Month Contract

Your New CompanyJoin a major transformation program focused on modernising critical registry services and enterprise platforms. Working within the Registry Connect initiative, you will influence strategic architecture decisions across API Management, Identity & Access Management, Customer Management, Shared Services, Search capabilities, regulatory transactions, and legacy modernisation programs.

Your New RoleAs an Architect / Technical Leadership & Engineering professional, you will provide architectural direction and governance across a complex technology landscape. Working closely with delivery teams and program stakeholders, you will define target state architectures, guide modernisation strategies, and ensure technology decisions align with business, regulatory, and operational objectives.Key responsibilities include:

- Developing current-state, transition-state, and target-state architecture models.
- Translating legislative requirements and business rules into scalable solution designs.
- Defining application, integration, API, cloud, and data architecture patterns.
- Providing architecture governance through formal design authority processes.
- Assessing migration, retention, retirement, replacement, and refactoring strategies for legacy applications.
- Supporting architecture decision-making and maintaining traceability across program initiatives.
- Guiding legacy remediation and enterprise modernisation activities.

What You'll Need to Succeed





- Extensive experience in application and integration architecture across both legacy and modern technology environments.
- Strong knowledge of API, IAM, CRM, cloud, and data interaction patterns.
- Experience operating within formal Architecture Review Boards or Design Authority environments.
- Proven ability to develop enterprise architecture roadmaps and modernisation strategies.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and technical leadership capabilities.
- Active Baseline Security Clearance.

Highly Desirable
- Experience with ADABAS, Natural, JCL, Siebel, Lotus Notes, MQ, or DataPower.
- Exposure to Databricks, Dynamics, OutSystems, .NET, Boomi, AWS, or Azure.
- TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture experience.

What You'll Get in Return

- 12-month contract within a high-profile federal government program.
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements.
- Work from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Canberra.
- Opportunity to influence enterprise-wide architecture and modernisation outcomes.
- Cooperative environment working with senior technology and business leaders.
- Exposure to large-scale transformation, cloud adoption, and legacy remediation initiatives.

What you need to do now
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📌 Architect / Technical Leadership & Engineering (Sydney)
🏢 Hays
📍 Sydney