Enterprise Cloud Architect (PROJ-4336)
Job Description
Remote is seeking a Enterprise Cloud Architect to join the team in Home Affairs. As part of a centralised architecture team, this role is embedded in the cloud technology delivery program. This program is driving Home Affairs adoption of cloud and is critical to ensuring that we can maximise the business benefits of cloud technology. The Enterprise Cloud Architect will be working in a muti-disciplinary Product team using agile delivery methodologies providing technical leadership, architecture guidance, and strategic direction to support the organisation’s cloud adoption goals. Key to this role is building
and maintaining a connection between the cloud product delivery and workload teams and the centralised architecture function to maximise architectural cohesion. (RFQ-HA-17-2025)
Role Description
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Cloud Architecture
- Develop and implement cloud architecture outcomes from a central architecture team ensuring a strategic approach to our investment in cloud technology and the cohesive delivery of cloud products and services.
- Ensure cloud-based technical solutions align with enterprise architecture and are consistent with future technologies roadmaps and our planned transition to cloud.
- Build partnerships and collaborate across technology delivery programs with internal business and IT stakeholders, strategic industry partners and external agencies.
Cloud Concierge (Consultancy)
- Provide personalised support and guidance to workload teams, helping them navigate the cloud landscape, resolve technical issues, and optimised their cloud usage.
- Assist workload teams with cloud onboarding ensuring they have necessary resources, tools, and knowledge to successfully migrate to the cloud.
- Share knowledge and best practices with workload teams, promoting cloud adoption and expertise.
Desirable Qualifications
- Professional AWS cloud certification (s)
- Experience with cloud cost optimisation tools and techniques
- Experience with agile development methodologies and DevOps practices
Required Knowledge/Experience and tools
- Demonstrated 7+ years of hands-on work experience in a system/platform technical design, software development or system/platform administration field.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing cloud architectures, preferably in a large enterprise environment.
- Experience with cloud migration, cloud security and compliance.
- Outstanding verbal/written communication abilities, including communicating technical/architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proficiency in analysing business and technical requirements to provide strategic guidance and support decision making.
- Demonstrated experience in managing and delivering multiple lines of tasking in a resource constrained environment.
- An eagerness to learn and inspire others.
- Ability to think critically and respectfully contest ideas to facilitate informed decision-making.
- Resilience and drive to work independently with minimal supervision to achieve outcomes.