Network Architect (PROJ-4319)

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing major aspects of ICT Strategy, network specification and design within the program, to shape the future strategic direction of the program in line with Defence’s Strategic Objectives and Mission outcomes.
• Understand and communicate interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs and continually manage stakeholder and project technical program expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with team members and stakeholders.
• Provide specialist advice to relevant section heads and senior leadership on technical challenges, the benefits and limitations of options to recommend the most appropriate solutions.
• Facilitate negotiation with internal and external parties and advise Commonwealth representative on negotiation strategy.
• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve technical issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path project deliverables.
• Undertake risk management through the delivery of the project to identify, analyse, evaluate, treat and review the risks and issues associated with delivering the requirement.
• Proactively engage with stakeholders in relation to risks and issues management.
• Initiate and Prepare detailed submissions and represent organisation at Senior Defence Committees for major Capital Project Government approval process.
• Represent organisation and national interests at regular meetings with International Partners to shape and influence outcomes in line with Australian national interests.
• Technical leadership to mobilise project personnel to ensure project technical activities are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards.
• Inspire and encourage participation in the formation of ICT Strategy and solutions by demonstrating technical leadership and creating an inclusive environment for personnel and their ideas.

Essential criteria

• ARCH 6 Leads the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external, and internal customers. Takes full responsibility for the balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements within the business architecture discipline. Establishes policy and strategy for the selection of systems architecture components, and coordinates design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency. Ensures that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to. Within a business change programme, manages the target design, policies and standards, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture and ensure consistency of design across projects within the programme.
• EMRG 6 Plans and leads the identification and assessment of new and emerging technologies and the evaluation of the potential impacts, threats and opportunities. Creates technology roadmaps which align organisational plans with emerging technology solutions. Engages with, and influences, relevant stakeholders to obtain organisational commitment to technology roadmaps. Develops organisational guidelines for monitoring emerging technologies. Collaborates with internal and external parties to facilitate intelligence gathering.
• NTPL 6 Creates and maintains overall network plans to support the organisation's business strategy, agrees service level agreements with customers and plans all aspects of the infrastructure necessary to ensure provision of network services to meet such agreements.
• RLMT 6 Leads the development of comprehensive stakeholder management strategies and plans. Builds long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external). Facilitates the engagement of stakeholders and delivery of services and change projects, acting as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders, facilitating relationships between them. Negotiates to ensure that stakeholders understand and agree what will meet their needs, and that appropriate agreements are defined. Oversees monitoring of relationships including lessons learned and appropriate feedback. Leads actions to improve relations and open communications with and between stakeholders.
• BURM 6 Plans and manages the implementation of organisation-wide processes and procedures, tools and techniques for the identification, assessment, and management of risk inherent in the operation of business processes and of potential risks arising from planned change.
• TECH 5 Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s). Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives. Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.

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