ICT Architecture Careers

ASD 6 & EL1 ICT Architecture Career opportunities are available within ASD to support the operation of some of the most powerful and leading-edge technologies in a dynamic environment. These roles contribute directly to ASD's mission, with work that is unique, critical and highly rewarding.

• Direct the development of enterprise wide architecture and processes, which ensure the strategic application of change is embedded in ASD.
• Demonstrate expertise in identifying and prioritising market and environmental trends.
• Draw upon project management knowledge to contribute to project plans and documentation.
• Anticipate major changes affecting the organisation and leverage resources to embrace and implement change.
• Analyse very complex enterprise issues, applying architectural expertise to identify and recommend courses of action.
• Accountable to identify compliance issues between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions.

ASD 6 & EL1 Data / Applications Architect:

• Partners with business and mission leadership to provide strategic recommendations to maximize the value of information assets via their creation, access and use.
• Utilises a range of tools and techniques to provide the organization with a current and potential future-state view of the information landscape.
• Assist technical and business leadership in developing information governance processes and structures.
• Assist in the identification and management of information risk in the ICT and mission environment.
• Ensure that the architecture identifies, prioritises and executes data and information related initiatives with clear line of sight to enterprise strategies and business outcomes.

ASD 6 & EL1 Business Architect:

• Provides internal management consultancy services for design thinking, business modelling, ecosystem modelling, innovation management, IT investment analysis, and operating model design.
• Facilitates development of the intersection of ICT investment with business/mission solutions that combine knowledge of business capabilities, value streams and business processes.
• Helps develop a governance plan for ensuring that Business Architecture is a primary input to the development of other architectural viewpoints.
• Collaborates with infrastructure and project teams to ensure continuous delivery of business outcomes.
• Facilitates agreement on organizational work models and processes to meet business/mission requirements.
• Works with key organisational stakeholders, enterprise and domain architects, to leverage integrated business architecture as part of the organisation's overall enterprise architecture.
• Develop designs, policies, standards and frameworks for a broad range of business use cases, ensuring consistency across the organisation, and compliance with security standards.
• Facilitate endorsement of designs by the appropriate Design Authority.
• Drive cloud architecture at a strategic level across all lines of business, toward self-service cloud consumption.
• Engage with business areas to understand their needs and work with key organisational stakeholders, enterprise and other domain architects, and to integrate solutions with the organisation's overall enterprise architecture.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and project teams to ensure continuous delivery of business outcomes.
• Reviews submissions from projects and other ICT initiatives to identify areas of interface with Enterprise ICT Services.
• Facilitates the review and evaluation of proposals against existing architectural standards, guidelines, principles, design patterns and technical reference models.
• Acts as a subject matter expert and a source of guidance for projects to ensure architectural designs and solutions align with ASD's emerging Enterprise Architectures.
• Works collaboratively with delivery divisions to ensure technology implementation within ASD are aligned with current strategy and requirements.
• Represent the interests of the ASD on a range of internal and external forums and committees
• Assist and report to the Section Head in the development of reference architectures, blueprints, standards, principles and guidelines.

ASD's Capability and Transformation Group has a broad scope of responsibilities, ranging from the delivery and execution of leading-edge mission capability and tools to an overarching portfolio view of ASD and the implementation of REDSPICE. The five Divisions include Cloud, Enterprise Technology, Mission Capability, Mission Data and Portfolio & Transformation.

Each Division drives project management maturity improvements and is comprised of members of diverse skills and disciplines who work together to deliver positive capability development outcomes for all stakeholders.

With a diverse range of architecture roles available, this is your opportunity to combine both your skills and interests to contribute to the ongoing success of ASD. ASD offers excellent training, mentoring and development opportunities as well as a competitive salary and benefits packages.

Application Closing Date: Sunday 17 August 2025

Data / Applications Architect- ASD/06396/25

Business Architect- ASD/06305/25

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The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) is an Australian Government intelligence agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence and cyber security.

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