One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Solution Architect EL1 Overview Please check below all the job details: Contract Duration: 28 Months (10 Months initially + 18 Months extension) Work Location: Only Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney (Hybrid 03 Days Office / 02 Days home each week) Eligibility: You must need to have NV1 Security Clearance or above. Tentative Start Date: 24th Feb 2026 Position Description The Solution Architect will assist the Business Area by assisting with the implementation of primarily ICT/digital transition and transformation services, ensuring effective prioritisation of efforts, resource management, risk management and sound governance in accordance with enterprise frameworks. Key duties and responsibilities The role will be responsible for, but not limited to: Leading the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements. Providing technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration. Identifying and evaluating alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance, and scalability. Producing specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers, and interfaces for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products. Managing and coordinating the target architecture across multiple projects, work streams or initiatives, ensuring architecturally significant determinations and decisions are effectively documented. Contributing to the establishment and maintenance of policies, principles, and practices for the selection of architecture components. Ensuring relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices (including security) are applied correctly and consistently. Evaluating requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommending actions to delegates and governance bodies for endorsement/decision or other appropriate action. Working as part of an Agile project/program team or business as usual area as directed. Performing other duties as directed from time-to-time by Directors/Team Leaders or a delegate. Demonstrated experience (3-5 years) working as a Solution (Application) Architect on a large-scale transformation project or program. Proven experience designing applications and solutions for traditional on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. Proven experience designing and documenting applications that meet business requirements and align with the department''s strategic vision and operational constraints. Demonstrated proficiency and experience Microsoft365 Azure Functions and Logic Apps Knowledge of and experience using frameworks Blazor, React and other Single Page Application Frameworks OpenAI and HATEOAS Asynchronous integration frameworks Composable applications frameworks Well-developed communication skills, including the ability to distil technical information in Plain English to communicate with influence. Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective working relationships, including the ability to translate clearly between technical teams and business areas. Tertiary qualifications or industry recognised certification in Information Management, Computer Science, or a relevant discipline. Strong skills in Archimate (3.1) as an architecture documentation and definition language. Demonstrated experience delivering large-scale ICT transformation projects/programs, preferably in a Commonwealth Government setting. Demonstrated knowledge of Commonwealth Government frameworks, including the ICT frameworks. Demonstrated understanding of Agile ways of work (e.g. SCRUM, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework [SAFe] or similar). The Next step is easy If you are interested, you may send an email to [email protected] Referral incentive program As always, we have the candidate referral incentive program through which you will get $1000 for each successful referral after the successful selection and joining of the referred candidates #J-18808-Ljbffr
Job Title
Solution Architect