Lead Architect - Apps Modernisation

About You

Job Location: Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney

Location Flexibility: Multiple Locations in Country

About The Role

Technical Delivery & Modernisation

You Will:

• Lead end-to-end application modernisation engagements from assessment through delivery and transition.
• Conduct hands-on application portfolio assessments, analysing legacy codebases, technical debt, dependencies, and modernisation opportunities.
• Create actionable and prioritised modernisation roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
• Evaluate, configure, and apply AI-assisted modernisation tools across customer environments.
• Design and build agentic workflows that automate code analysis, documentation generation, and modernisation planning activities.
• Define target-state architectures leveraging cloud-native, microservices, API-first, event-driven, and containerised approaches.
• Develop and continuously improve repeatable modernisation methodologies, frameworks, and delivery patterns.

Advisory & Customer Engagement

You Will:

• Facilitate modernisation workshops and discovery sessions with CTOs, Enterprise Architects, Application Owners, and technology leaders.
• Translate complex legacy technology challenges into practical and achievable transformation strategies.
• Support pre-sales activities through solution shaping, estimation, technical leadership, and customer engagement.
• Present findings, recommendations, and strategic roadmaps to senior customer stakeholders.

Capability & Offering Development

You Will:

• Standardise delivery learnings into reusable frameworks, templates, assessment models, and reference architectures.
• Contribute to the creation of intellectual property, accelerators, and modernisation assets that strengthen Fujitsu's market offering.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to apply AI-assisted development and agent-based approaches.
• Mentor and support team members as the modernisation practice continues to grow.

About You

Essential Experience

To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Bring:

• Significant hands-on experience modernising enterprise applications through re-platforming, re-architecting, or legacy transformation initiatives.
• Deep understanding of legacy technology environments, including monolithic architectures, tightly coupled services, legacy integration patterns, and technical debt challenges.
• Experience assessing complex application portfolios using code analysis tools, dependency mapping, architecture reviews, and quality metrics.
• Strong architecture expertise across cloud-native, API-first, microservices, event-driven, containerised, and Infrastructure-as-Code environments.
• Experience working with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), including migration and deployment strategies.
• Strong DevOps capability, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment automation, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience working with enterprise or government customers within consulting, professional services, or large-scale transformation environments.
• The ability to operate across the full engagement lifecycle, from advisory and assessment through to delivery and knowledge transfer.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with experience presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A pragmatic, outcome-focused mindset with a strong commitment to delivering measurable business value.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with AI-assisted development, code analysis, automated refactoring, or software modernisation tooling.
• Knowledge of agentic AI concepts, including LLM integration, orchestration frameworks, RAG architectures, and multi-agent systems.
• Familiarity with Australian Government security and digital frameworks, including PSPF, ISM, and Hosting Certification Framework requirements.
• Knowledge of application portfolio management approaches and technical debt measurement frameworks.

What Success Looks Like

• Deliver modernisation engagements that achieve measurable customer outcomes.
• Establish a repeatable modernisation methodology, including assessment frameworks, tooling playbooks, and delivery templates.
• Validate AI-assisted and agent-driven approaches through practical customer engagements.
• Support growth opportunities through technical leadership in customer workshops and pre-sales activities.
• Build strong customer relationships and deliver referenceable success stories that support long-term growth.

Relocation Supported: No

Visa Sponsorship Approved: No

Why Fujitsu?

• We are an organisation with a strong set of values and a history of respecting fairness and equality, whilst promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. We constantly push ourselves to do better and strive to bring together a diverse mix of perspectives and talents in an inclusive environment, where we encourage our people to bring their full selves to work. We call this Be Completely You.
• We put people first. We believe in the power of diversity to drive innovation and our AWEI Gold Employer status and Rainbow Tick certification for LGBTI+ inclusion show that we value an inclusive culture.
• We offer tailored career paths across our global organisation to support your professional and personal growth.
• Our customers trust us. We have an excellent reputation across the region and globally.
• Best in class reward and recognition programs, flexible work, volunteering leave and more.
• We live our values of aspiration, trust and empathy, all day, every day.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

As an inclusive employer, Fujitsu aims to recruit a diverse range of talents to help us achieve our purpose. In line with our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, we welcome applications from women and gender diverse people; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; Māori and Pacific people; LGBTI+ people; people with a disability; culturally and linguistically diverse people; and veterans and emergency responders. Applicants who identify as transgender or gender diverse can contact careersapac@fujitsu.com for a copy of our Frequently Asked Questions to assist with the recruitment journey.

If you don't tick every box in this job description, please don't rule yourself out. Research suggests that women and other people in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. We focus on hiring people who value inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage, and integrity, rather than ticking boxes so if this resonates with you, then.

For more information, please email careersapac@fujitsu.com.

For Security Cleared Roles - PLEASE NOTE

Due to the inherent requirements of the role, candidates must be Australian Citizens and hold a Australian Federal Government Security Clearance. The role will or will likely involve access to controlled technology and must satisfy additional restrictions and requirements as a consequence of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations. As a consequence of these restrictions and requirements, applicants may be adversely impacted if they are not Australian citizens, are dual nationals, hold citizenship from proscribed countries, or are not of Australian national origin. Please refer to Discrimination (Fujitsu Australia Limited) Exemption 2017 (No 1) Notifiable instrument NI2020-672 (ACT).

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