Domain Architect - Application & Integrations

WaterNSW; City of Parramatta; Hybrid; AUD 156,345 - 187,631; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work a 9-day fortnight at full pay

Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave

Fertility leave

Professional development and educational assistance

Salary range $156,345 - $187,631 base + super

Job summary

WaterNSW is looking for an experienced Domain Architect - Application & Integration to join their Digital Partnerships & Data team in Parramatta. The role focuses on driving the application and integration architecture to align with business goals, ensuring a secure and scalable technology landscape.

The successful candidate will have strong expertise in defining architectural standards and will lead initiatives to modernise legacy systems while championing innovation. A tertiary qualification in a relevant field and extensive knowledge of integration and application architecture are essential.

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Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise and solution architecture, particularly in applications and integration environments.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture principles and software lifecycle management.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and ensure project alignment with enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural simplification and application rationalisation while reducing complexity.
• Align technology investments with business strategy and regulatory requirements.
• Provide architectural oversight on enterprise platforms and enforce integration strategies.
• Lead modernization of legacy applications and introduce innovative cloud-based solutions.
• Ensure project alignment with enterprise standards and govern architecture processes.

Skills

Integration patterns

APIs

Event-driven architecture

Middleware

Message queues

System interoperability

Secure data exchange

Application architecture

Education

Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

Job description

Ready to make a splash in your career? WaterNSW is seeking an experienced Domain Architect - Application & Integration (Full-Time, Permanent) to join our Digital Partnerships & Data team.

In this newly created role, you will play a pivotal part in driving the future of WaterNSW’s application and integration landscape. You will provide strategic and technical leadership to ensure platforms are aligned to business goals, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and fit for long-term transformation. You’ll define and govern the target-state architecture, leading application rationalisation, platform alignment, and integration strategy, including APIs and interoperability. By reducing duplication and improving consistency, you’ll help modernise the technology environment and ensure solutions are resilient, maintainable and aligned to business needs.

This is an opportunity to work with an essential organisation creating a more sustainable future for the state. This role offers the flexibility to work around life, your contribution will be valued, and you’ll be supported to build a rewarding career.

Our perks and Benefits

At WaterNSW, we believe that our employees should be as well taken care of as our rivers, dams, and pipelines, that’s why we offer a load of benefits.

• Work a 9-day fortnight at Full pay on the Enterprise Agreement
• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Fertility leave
• Professional development and educational assistance
• Salary range $156,345 - $187,631 base + super
• And so much more!

What you’ll do

• Define, Govern, and Evolve the Application & Integration Architecture: Drive architectural simplification, application rationalisation, and technology standardisation across the enterprise to optimise application and integration architecture while reducing complexity and cost.
• Align Technology with Business Strategy: Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and influence strategic planning processes to ensure technology investment decisions align with long-term enterprise capability goals, regulatory requirements and operational priorities and provide domain specific technology roadmaps that enable business outcomes.
• Integration Architecture Leadership: Provide architectural oversight on enterprise platforms and define and enforce integration strategies, standards, and patterns to ensure seamless data and process flow across enterprise and partner ecosystems including external stakeholders.
• Application Portfolio Roadmaps and Innovation: Lead enterprise-wide initiatives to modernise legacy applications, consolidate platforms, and introduce composable and cloud-based solutions. Champion innovation that enhances business performance, reliability, or customer experience.
• Delivery & Assurance: Provide end-to-end architectural guidance on projects, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, integration requirements, and governance obligations, and represent the architecture function in investment governance and design authority forums.

What we are looking for

• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience in enterprise and solution architecture, with a strong focus on application and integration domains and knowledge of enterprise application architecture principles, frameworks, and methodologies. and software lifecycle management.
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architecture, middleware, message queues, system interoperability, and secure data exchange between enterprise platforms.
• Knowledge of integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architecture, middleware, message queues, system interoperability, and secure data exchange between enterprise platforms.
• Ability to set standards and patterns, review solution designs, guide project teams, influence stakeholders, manage exceptions, and ensure applications and integrations align with enterprise architecture, security, data and operational requirements.
• Current NSW Drivers Licence

How we will support you

At WaterNSW, we balance flexibility – and the way we work – with the needs of the business, our teams, and us as individuals. When it comes to working in an office, we work in a hybrid way. If you’re required to be in the field or on site, the benefits of flexibility can be achieved in other ways, such as through a condensed work week. We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer and are committed to providing equal opportunities for women. Visit our WORK180 page to access our benefits and career development opportunities.

Our commitment & culture

No matter how or where you work, safety is the number one priority. This means the physical and mental safety of you, your colleagues, and the public. WaterNSW is committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Veterans, and people from all backgrounds to apply. We celebrate the unique perspectives, knowledge and lived experience you bring and are committed to ensuring an inclusive, supportive and respectful workplace for everyone.

Who is WaterNSW

WaterNSW operates the state’s dams, capturing and storing water, and then supplying it ready for distribution – for the environment, agriculture, industry and the community. With 41 major dams and hundreds of waterways across the state, we play a vital role at the source of the state’s water, delivering two thirds of all water used in NSW. We’re the people taking care of the state’s water at the source – capturing, storing, delivering. Find out more at waternsw.com.au.

For more information, please reach out to: Jasmine Choong at [e-mail].

Please note applications for this position will close on Wednesday 24th June 2026, 11:59PM.

You must have full work rights in Australia to qualify for all positions at WaterNSW.

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