Senior Solution Architect - AWS

- 6 month rolling contract.
- $1200/day inc super + GST
- 2/3 days in office
- Melbourne CBD
- Full Australian working rights

Position Purpose The Solution Architect plays a critical role in designing, developing, and deploying scalable, secure technology solutions that integrate a wide range of systems, applications, and data sources across AWS, Azure, and SaaS platforms. Supporting both consumer-facing and internal operations, the role ensures seamless system interoperability and high performance. Reporting to the Lead Solution Architect, the Senior Solution Architect will deliver insight-driven commercial data solutions that enhance decision-making, efficiency, and revenue, while building and optimising data models and pipelines for real-time and analytical use. The role will focus on ensuring all solutions are strategically aligned with the broader technology roadmap and business objectives, while delivering intuitive, reliable, and responsive platforms that elevate the customer experience.

Key Accountabilities

Solution Design & Architecture

- Design, develop and deploy scalable, secure solutions connecting diverse systems, applications, and data sources, utilising AWS, Azure, and SaaS platforms to support both consumer-facing and internal operations.
- Architect enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions across Microsoft Entra ID and AWS (Cognito, Verified Permissions), including identity federation, RBAC, ABAC, fine-grained authorisation, and privileged identity management.
- Ensure strategic alignment and consistency with the technology strategy and alignment with business goals and objectives.
- Ensure design solutions enhance the customer experience, and platforms are intuitive, reliable, and responsive to user needs.

Governance & Risk Management

- Identify and mitigate architectural risks, ensuring solutions are resilient, compliant, and secure.
- Establish and implement architectural standards, best practices, and governance frameworks to ensure consistency and alignment across all solutions.

Stakeholder Engagement

- Work side by side with the enterprise and solution architecture team to ensure solution designs align with enterprise-wide strategies, standards,



and governance frameworks.
- Collaborate with business leaders, product managers, and technical teams to understand business needs and translate them into robust architectural solutions.

Leadership

- Collaborate with a team of Solution Architects, contributing to a cohesive and high-performing environment through active participation and knowledge-sharing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver guidance and education, fostering business-wide understanding and expertise in Commercial Data Architecture.
- Any other duties within the scope of the skills and capabilities of this role, as directed by your leader.

Corporate Responsibilities

- Comply with the business’ privacy and data security requirements and prevent and/or mitigate privacy and data security risk within own work area.
- Work collaboratively to prevent and/or mitigate fraud and corruption risks to the business, including undertaking required training, complying with policies and processes, identifying and reporting suspected fraud and corruption or vulnerabilities and exposure, implementing controls, behaving ethically and promoting a culture of integrity.

Additional Responsibilities for Line Managers

- Responsibility for the implementation of the Fraud and Corruption Control Framework within own work area and promptly reporting fraud and corruption matters to Ethical Behaviour & Integrity.
- Demonstrate integrity in actions and decision-making, foster an ethical culture and manage fraud and corruption within own business teams/units.

Technical Capabilities

Qualifications/Licences

Essential

- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, combined with extensive experience in architecting solutions for enterprise-level systems.

Desirable

- Master’s degree in Business/Technology or a relevant discipline.




- Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF or Zachman.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

- Extensive cross-functional experience with AWS, Azure and SaaS products, particularly in creating solutions that support both customer-facing platforms and internal operating systems.
- AWS Architecture: Strong solution architecture experience across Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions, ECS/EKS and CloudWatch.
- Integration & Microservices: Demonstrated experience designing REST APIs, event-driven architecture, microservices, MQ/Kafka and asynchronous messaging patterns.
- Cloud Security & Networking: Strong understanding of IAM, Cognito, OAuth/OIDC, WAF, KMS, VPC, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway and secure ingress/egress patterns.
- DevOps & Solution Design: Experience with CI/CD, Terraform/CloudFormation, observability, architecture patterns, non-functional requirements (NFRs) and conceptual/logical solution design.
- A customer-focused mindset with the ability to design solutions that enhance the customer experience, making platforms more user-friendly and responsive.
- Strong ability to align architectural decisions with business objectives, ensuring solutions are both strategic and practical.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing integration solutions with a focus on seamless data and application connectivity.
- Solid interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Deep understanding of architectural best practices, standards and governance frameworks, with the ability to apply them across the team.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with the latest industry trends, technologies and best practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex challenges.

Desirable

- Experience with or exposure to Agile Project Management, DevSecOps, Human Centred Design, Customer Experience or Design Thinking.

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