Solutions Architect

One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Solution Architect – EL1

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 significantly 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 technical proficiency and experience using:

• Microsoft365
• Azure Functions and Logic Apps

Knowledge of and experience using various Microsoft and industry frameworks, including:

• 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

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