Lead Solution Architect

Job description:

Lead Solution Architect

• Band 11 - $163,604 + 12% superannuation
• Full time, Ongoing
• Geelong location (hybrid working model – 3 days in office / 2 days from home)

At WorkSafewe're dedicated to supporting all Victorians to be healthy and safe at work and to recover from any workplace injury or illness as quickly as possible. Our passion for safety and wellbeing is what unites us.

About the role

The Lead Solution Architect is a key leadership position in the WorkSafe Technology division and operates at a senior level, to influence and ensure technology investment is optimised. The Lead Solution Architect is required to engage with key business and technology stakeholders ensuring effective business outcomes that align with WSV's strategic direction.

Key accountabilities:

• Lead and mentor domain, solution and technical architects, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, best practices, and standards, as well as the creation and maintenance of architecture documentation including high level designs, technical specification and integration diagrams
  • Review and approve technical designs to ensure they meet quality standards, security requirements and business objectives. Identify potential risks or challenges and proactively develop mitigation strategies as required
    • Provide guidance on technical challenges and decision-making, ensuring that design choices support both current needs and future scalability
      • Define and implement architectural governance processes to ensure consistency and alignment across all solutions and ensure solutions are designed with the consideration of security, compliance and regulatory requirements.
        • Lead efforts to balance quality, time, and cost constraints, ensuring that the chosen solutions are both effective and cost-efficient and recommend and implement strategies for optimizing resources and operational costs while maintaining solution quality and performance.

Please ensure you take a look at the Position Description here for additional information on accountabilities for this role.

About you

You will bring significant experience architecting solutions using various industry leading enterprise platforms to provide guidance across initiatives. You pride yourself on strong problem-solving, and analytical skills, with a focus on delivering efficient solutions to complex business challenges. Your proven experience in leading other solution and technical architects, highlights your excellent leadership skills and ability to foster collaboration within cross-functional teams.

Further, you will also possess:

• Extensive experience in Program Architecture, with specific demonstrable experience in data, applications and integration architectures.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Exceptional proven stakeholder management and interpersonal skills including coaching, facilitation, influencing, negotiation skills, and the ability to adapt these to a diverse range of stakeholders and contexts.
• Proven expertise executing projects across various organizational functional domains.

Working with us

At WorkSafe, our goal is for every employee to feel connected, safe, and valued within their team, for teams to feel appreciated in the workplace, and for WorkSafe to be respected in the community.

We believe that a diverse workforce is essential for delivering the best outcomes for the Victorian community. We strongly encourage applications from all individuals, including First Nations people, people with disabilities, those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and individuals of all sexualities and genders.

What's next?

Applications close 11:00pm Friday 12th September 2025. Click the link to apply, and join us in making a difference to Victorian lives.

Only applications submitted via the WorkSafe Careers website will be considered.

Preferred candidates will be required to satisfactorily complete a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check and/or other checks as required for the position as part of the recruitment process.

Eligibility for ongoing employment with WorkSafe Victoria requires Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency.

Due to the volume of applications received, individualised feedback will only be provided to candidates who progress to interview stage.

For further enquiries please contact TA Specialist, Nadia Cardozo via email Nadia_Cardozo@worksafe.vic.gov.au .