Senior Solutions Architect (PROJ-4857)

Canberra
11 November 2026
PV
Application ends: 23 November 2026
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Deadline date:
23 November 2026
$165 - $190

Job Description

Remote is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join the team at ASD. The successful candidate will lead the development of solution architectures across business, infrastructure and functional areas, providing technical leadership and governance across solution design and integration.

The role will develop high-level and detailed designs, prepare technical plans and ensure solutions align with relevant technical strategies, standards, policies and security requirements. (LH-07685)

Role Description

Key duties and responsibilities

  • Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.

  • Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available. Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.

  • Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration. Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.

  • Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.

  • Develop designs including High Level designs and Detailed level designs.


Essential criteria

  • Stakeholder relationship management level 5: Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups. Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables. Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders. Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans. Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding. Facilitates business decision-making processes. Captures and disseminates technical and business information.

  • Solution Architecture level 5: Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available. Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development. Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration. Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions. Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.

  • Systems design level 5: Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.