Enterprise Architect

Vault Cloud; Canberra; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus leave

Parental leave

Diverse culture

Job summary

Vault Cloud, an Australian sovereign cloud provider, seeks an Enterprise Architect to steward architectural integrity and guide the Design Authority from our Canberra or Sydney offices.

You will craft core guardrails, own the macro portfolio, and lead the Architecture Review Board to ensure projects align with enterprise blueprints and stringent NFRs such as scalability and DR.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Senior Enterprise or Solutions Architecture roles.
• Ability to adapt TOGAF/NIST/SABSA to sovereign, highly regulated environments.
• Experience in high-security, mission-critical tech environments.
• Australian Government Security Clearance eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Define guardrails and reference architectures for cloud, microservices, and security.
• Own macro portfolio view across applications and assets to modernize and retire outdated components.
• Lead Architecture Review Board and translate strategy into executable blueprints.
• Provide hands-on advisory during discovery and resolve architectural bottlenecks.
• Mentor solution architects and engineers to raise cross-team alignment.

Skills

TOGAF

NIST

SABSA

Security Clearance

AU Citizenship

Stakeholder Influence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Vault Cloud is an Australian sovereign cloud provider with 14 years of experience delivering secure, scalable and high-performance cloud capability. Operating with a robust national capacity, we provide the infrastructure to securely manage critical data and demanding workloads. Our experience spans some of Australia's most security-sensitive environments within Government and Critical Infrastructure, giving us deep expertise in sovereign cloud and secure data management.

As organisations increasingly adopt AI, Vault Cloud is extending this capability to enable secure, high-performance intelligence at scale. Our platform combines secure full cloud services, open architecture and high-performance AI inferencing, supported by a valued partner ecosystem. Together, these capabilities give organisations the capacity, flexibility and performance to run critical workloads while maintaining sovereignty, security and control of their data.

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to step up as the custodian of architectural integrity and steer the Design Authority here at Vault Cloud. This role can be based in either our Canberra or Sydney office.

You will:

• Define the guardrails, core reference architectures, and foundational patterns (Cloud, Microservices, Security) that guide our technical ecosystem without enforcing rigid bureaucracy.
• Own the macro portfolio view across applications and assets, leading lifecycle assessments to actively flush out obsolescence and unlock modernization plays.
• Conduct continuous assurance reviews at critical gates to ensure project delivery matches enterprise blueprints and hits strict NFR benchmarks (scalability, disaster recovery).
• Steering the Architecture Review Board (ARB), transforming high-level business strategy into clean, actionable technical execution blueprints.
• Provide hands-on advisory support during early discovery phases and dive into deep-tech troubleshooting to smash architectural bottlenecks for engineering teams.
• Mentor and coach solution architects and senior engineers, building cross-team alignment and elevating technical mastery across the business.

To be successful you will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Australian Citizenship: Must hold or have the ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance.
• Extensive experience in Senior Enterprise or Solutions Architecture roles, backed by a deeper technical foundation in Infrastructure or Network Architecture.
• Proven experience operating within high-security, high-integrity, or mission-critical tech environments.
• Advanced fluency across Infrastructure, Networks, and Security, giving you the confidence to interrogate complex engineering designs and hold technical peers accountable.
• An innate ability to adapt standard industry frameworks (such as TOGAF, NIST, or SABSA) to fit unique, highly regulated, or sovereign business models rather than relying on textbook deployments.
• Advanced, practical exposure to compliance frameworks relevant to secure infrastructure (such as ISM, IRAP, ISO, etc.).
• Exceptional Stakeholder Influence

What's in it for you?

• Be at the forefront of cyberwarfare, the greatest technology challenge of our generation
• 5 days of bonus leave per year
• Company paid Parental Leave
• A diverse culture where we celebrate our people and their unique, individual perspectives

Our culture is a big part of who we are so, for us, it is vital that each of our people (known as Vaulter's) align to and are continuously guided by our core values.