Solution Architect - Design and Architecture

About the Branch

The Digital Services Branch (DSB) enables the agency to achieve its mission by delivering innovative and adaptive digital and information and communications technology (ICT) capabilities. DSB provides modern tools, platforms, and services to facilitate a highly productive and digitally enabled environment for the agency and its stakeholders. Through digital transformation, DSB innovates and influences the agency in embracing new and emerging technology to remain at the forefront of our sector.

About the Section

The Design and Architecture section supports strategic decision making and design of technology solutions. Working primarily as enabling teams within the agency’s SAFe agile delivery framework, its responsibilities include :

• Developing and maintaining architecture design documentation for the agency’s technology platforms
• Developing and maintaining digital designs and documentation across the Service Design, Interaction and Interface Design, Content Design and User Research domains
• Developing and maintaining frameworks and setting strategic direction for design and architecture disciplines.
• Oversight and operation of governance bodies and mechanisms to ensure designs are appropriately considered across domains.

Role Responsibilities and Duties

As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing robust, scalable, and secure solutions that solve business and technical problems and align with strategic objectives. You will work closely with stakeholders, development teams, and other architects to ensure that solutions are well-integrated and deliver value to the agency.

As part of your key responsibilities, you will :

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
• Design end-to-end solutions that are scalable, secure, and aligned with architectural standards.
• Develop and maintain architectural designs, diagrams, and documentation.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout product lifecycles.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and practices.
• Ensure solutions are compliant with security, regulatory, and performance requirements.
• Engage with wide ranging stakeholders to ensure design decisions are well socialised and understood.
• Participate in architectural reviews and governance processes to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Contribute to the administration of the Architectural Reference Group.
• Continuously improve and optimize existing solutions based on feedback and performance metrics.

Qualifications / Experience

Solution Architects will have several years of demonstrable experience working in :

• A role involving the development of comprehensive architectural documentation and designs within a software development environment.
• A scaled agile delivery framework

Solution architects will possess :

• Strong knowledge of various technologies, platforms, standards and architectural patterns, with a particular focus on the Microsoft / Azure technology stack.
• Strong knowledge of architectural design frameworks and diagrams.
• Relevant tertiary and / or professional certifications.

Applications close 11.30pm on Sunday, 13 July 2025

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