El2 Lead Domain Architect

Softtest Pays Pty Ltd; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) seeks a seasoned Principal Architect to lead the architecture strategy for a defined business domain. You will guide programs and initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, security requirements, and governance standards.

You will collaborate with enterprise, solution, security architects and data leaders to shape end-to-end architectures and influence critical investment decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in designing and delivering complex architecture for finance/ERP domains
• Experience in EL2 or equivalent principal architect capacity or senior architecture roles
• Ability to translate strategy and business requirements into domain architecture
• Experience applying architecture principles, governance, and standards across multiple programs
• Understanding of enterprise technology environments, financial processes, compliance and controls
• Senior stakeholder leadership and communication skills; influence executives and delivery teams

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate architecture strategy, target state and roadmaps for a defined domain
• Provide authoritative architectural leadership across programs and initiatives in the domain
• Ensure architectures align with enterprise strategy, security requirements and priorities
• Lead architectural analysis of complex problems and develop strategic options
• Establish domain architecture principles, patterns, standards and guardrails
• Review designs and decisions for cross-domain dependencies, risks and opportunities
• Collaborate with enterprise, solution, security architects and data leaders to ensure end-to-end coherence
• Influence investment decisions by outlining architectural impacts and dependencies
• Represent the domain in architecture and governance forums and support decision-making
• Monitor emerging technologies and assess their impact on the domain
• Lead resolution of significant architectural issues and guide priorities and trade-offs
• Build architectural capability through leadership, guidance and mentoring

Job description

Australian Citizens residing in Australia only respond.

Key duties and responsibilities

Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Develop, maintain and communicate the architecture, target state and strategic roadmap for a defined business or technology domain.
• Provide authoritative architectural advice and technical leadership across programs, projects and initiatives operating within the domain.
• Ensure solution architectures and technology investments align with enterprise architecture, domain strategy, security requirements and organisational priorities.
• Lead architectural analysis of complex business and technology problems and develop strategic options, recommendations and transition approaches.
• Establish and maintain domain-level architecture principles, patterns, standards and guardrails to promote consistency, interoperability and reuse.
• Review and provide assurance over solution designs and architectural decisions, identifying cross-domain dependencies, risks, gaps and opportunities.
• Work collaboratively with enterprise architects, solution architects, security architects, data engineering leaders, business stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure coherent end-to-end architecture.
• Influence investment and prioritisation decisions by providing clear advice on architectural impacts, technical dependencies, risks, sequencing and longer-term implications.
• Represent the domain at architecture and governance forums and support effective architectural decision-making and assurance.
• Monitor emerging technologies, industry developments and organisational capability needs and assess their potential impact on the domain.
• Lead the resolution of significant architectural issues and manage complex trade-offs between strategic direction, delivery priorities, risk, cost and technical constraints.
• Build architectural capability by providing leadership, guidance and mentoring to architects and other technical specialists.

(NOTE: the key responsibilities of the role are based on current priorities and may change over time)

About the organisation

The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is an independent statutory agency that is responsible for implementing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which will support a better life for hundreds of thousands of Australians with a significant and permanent disability and their families and carers. The NDIA values a positive contemporary attitude to disability. As a Federal Agency, we work within a legislative and regulatory environment. We adhere to the Australian Public Service Code of Conduct as set out in section 13 of the Public Service Act 1999. Our work is driven by the Corporate Plan which provides strategic direction to achieve our purpose of making a difference so that people with disability can choose and achieve their goals. The NDIA Values are: - We value people – We put participants at the heart of everything we do. - We grow together – We work together to deliver quality outcomes. - We aim higher – We are resilient and always have the courage to do better. - We take care – We own what we do and we do the right thing. Our values reflect our passion and commitment to building a positive, participant-centred culture.

Criteria

The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a response to each criterion. Each response is limited to 3000 characters.

Essential criteria

• 1.Minimum 8+ years of experience designing and delivering complex finance and /or ERP solutions, with at least 3 years in an EL2 or equivalent principal architect capacity (and/or relevant industry experience)
• 2.Demonstrated ability to translate organisational strategy, business requirements and complex technology considerations into coherent domain architecture and strategic direction
• 3.Extensive experience developing and applying architecture principles, patterns, standards and governance to guide solutions across multiple programs, systems or delivery initiatives
• 4.Demonstrated ability to analyse complex architectural issues, dependencies and trade-offs and provide authoritative, evidence-based recommendations to senior stakeholders and governance forums
• 5.Strong understanding of contemporary enterprise technology environments, financial management processes, regulatory, audit and compliance requirements, and related standards and practices
• 6.Demonstrated senior stakeholder leadership and communication skills, including the ability to influence executives, architects, technical specialists and delivery teams and achieve alignment across competing priorities