Chief Architect

Opportunity

Career defining opportunity for Chief Architect of large federal government Agency undertaking multiple transformation programs. Large, distributed business stakeholders and ICT department following Scaled Agile. The architecture is 100% in the cloud (AWS and Azure), with large enterprise scale programs cutting across Salesforce CRM, ERP (legacy SAP HCM and Financials operating in shared-services model), datalakes (Teradata to Snowflake), Analytics, and Digital (monolith to microservices, mobile, accessibility).

Candidates across Melbourne, Geelong, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane will be considered.

The Chief Architect will

• Drive the Enterprise Architecture, future-state roadmaps, ensure programs align to roadmap, influencing the future direction of the agency's ICT investment
• Mentor and support both Domain and Solution Architects (20+) distributed in the business and across multiple transformation programs
• Developing and maintaining relevant roadmaps, reference models, standards and Enterprise Architecture artefacts
• Represent the Agency across government technical forums, on behalf of the CIO - internal and external
• Support with investment prioritisation & future state to maximise the ROI and benefits to the organisation, ensuring that the available ICT resources are optimally utilised, and the future demand is predicted
• Provide advisory services on ICT for investment recommendations, business cases, and contribute to briefs, risk assessments, committee papers and reports
• Ensure compliance with information security, privacy, and data protection policies and frameworks (eg PSPF, ISM, Essential 8, ISO27001, ISO31000 etc)
• Present Enterprise Architecture reference models, principles, policies, standards, and roadmaps to a diverse stakeholder groups (business and ICT)
• Contribute to Architecture governance forums Architecture Review Board and Technology Committees

About you

• 10+ years' operating as an Enterprise Architect with background in technical or business delivery (eg Development backgroud)
• Strong, demonstrated knowledge of claims processing, insurance - required
• Understanding of Machinery of Government (MOC) within Commonwealth or at State level and experience working with multiple departments/agencies, cross department engagement and influence (strongly preferred)
• Demonstrated experience in delivering large scale architectural change driving innovation, best practice and enterprise agility
• Demonstrated success in aligning technology capabilities to achieve business goals across the enterprise - deep business and ICT engagement across multiple business units and states
• Collaboration across government and contribute to the wider Australian Commonwealth Government Architecture (shared services model impacts)
• Demonstrated success in evaluating, recommending and promoting the adoption of emerging technologies and ICT products for organisation benefit
• Commitment to ethical and professional standards, promoting integrity, compliance with legislation & public sector values - in particular adherence to transparent, ethical Commonwealth Procurement guidelines when assessing, selecting, onboarding and working with vendors and consultancies
• Tertiary ICT qualifications (Bachelor's minimum, Master's preferred) plus TOGAF certified or equivalent IT architectural qualification (eg Zachman)
• Experience working on multi-cloud-based environment (AWS and Azure)
• DevOps, DataOps, DevSecOps
• Exeperience driving digital transformation (monolith to microservices, containerisation, distributed architecture)

Successful applicants will be required to provide proof of Australian Citizenship to pass federal background checks with ability to obtain Baseline AGSVA as needed. Key Selection Criteria will be required prior to application closing date of Tuesday 21 October 2025.

To apply in confidence please contact Kylie McManus on and/or email your CV to

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Desired Skills and Experience
Chief Architect for enterprise transformation in fed gov / insurance and claims processing plus gov / Business, technology, process / ERP Security Data Fraud Digital monolith to microservices drive component based architecture