Information Architect-Canberra

IT Alliance; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Alliance in Canberra is seeking a Lead Information Architect to design, govern, and align enterprise information assets with business capabilities and data architecture. You will model information structures, metadata, and taxonomies while coordinating with stakeholders across IT and business units.

The contractor will support agile delivery, governance activities, and knowledge transfer, ensuring interoperable information systems and strong information governance practices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, implementing and governing enterprise information architectures, models, taxonomies, metadata frameworks, and content structures.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and collaborate with executives, architects, delivery teams and governance forums.
• Proven ability to establish information governance frameworks, standards, metadata and classification schemes, with privacy and regulatory obligations.
• Ability to work collaboratively, build trust, and align diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and govern information architectures that support business capabilities and enterprise information management objectives.
• Define metadata, taxonomy frameworks, and content structures; ensure alignment with governance standards.
• Support agile delivery practices and governance activities; provide knowledge transfer to build internal capability.

Skills

Information Architecture

Information Governance

Stakeholder Engagement

Information Modelling

Enterprise Integration

Documentation Skills

Security & Privacy

Agile Governance

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

One of our federal Government clients is seeking to engage Lead Microservices and AI Technical Architect for Canberra-Hybrid location .

Candidate must have Baseline Security clearance

Contract Duration - 09 months +36 months

Security Clearance - Baseline

Location - Canberra-Hybrid

Overview

An Information Architect is required to support the Change Program. They will be responsible for designing, structuring, and governing business information assets to align with business needs and strategic objectives. It ensures information assets are consistently structured, classified, governed, and integrated across business systems and services.

Key duties and responsibilities

The Information Architect will support the client by designing, documenting, and governing information architectures that support business capabilities, service delivery, and enterprise information management objectives.

The role will work closely with business and technical stakeholders to understand information requirements, develop information models and structures, define metadata and taxonomy frameworks, support information governance initiatives, and ensure information assets are aligned with enterprise and data architecture strategies.

The contractor will contribute to Agile delivery practices, maintain work items in Azure DevOps, support governance activities, and provide knowledge transfer to build internal capability.

Milestones

1. Information Discovery and Assessment

Deliverables

• Stakeholder engagement and information discovery workshops completed.
• Current-state information landscape assessment.
• Existing information assets, repositories, and structures documented.
• Analysis of information flows, dependencies, and governance requirements.
• Identification of information management risks, issues, and opportunities.

Outcome

Agreed understanding of existing information environments, stakeholders, and information management requirements.

2. Information Architecture Design

Deliverables

• Information architecture framework developed.
• Information models, taxonomies, and metadata structures defined.
• Information classification and content structures established.
• Integration and interoperability requirements documented.
• Information governance recommendations and standards developed.

Outcome

Future-state information architecture aligned with business, data, and enterprise architecture objectives.

3. Governance and Implementation Support

Deliverables

• Final information architecture artefacts completed.
• Information governance documentation and recommendations.
• Stakeholder briefings and governance presentations.
• Knowledge transfer and handover materials.
• Support for implementation and adoption activities.

Outcome

Approved and sustainable information architecture supported by governance, stakeholder buy-in, and operational readiness.

Required Capabilities

Information Architecture Expertise

Proven experience designing, implementing, and governing enterprise information architectures, information models, taxonomies, metadata frameworks, and content structures.

Information Management and Governance

Demonstrated experience developing information management standards, governance frameworks, classification schemes, and practices that improve information quality, accessibility, compliance, and usability.

Stakeholder Engagement and Facilitation

Demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and collaborate with business and technical stakeholders at all levels, including senior executives, architects, and governance forums.

Information Modelling and Design

Experience designing logical and conceptual information models, information classifications, metadata standards, taxonomies, and structures that support discoverability, reuse, and interoperability.

Enterprise Integration and Architecture Alignment

Experience ensuring information architecture aligns with enterprise, data, solution, and business architecture practices while supporting integration across systems and services.

Communication and Documentation Skills

Strong ability to produce high-quality information architecture artefacts, governance documentation, briefing papers, standards, roadmaps, and executive presentations.

Regulatory, Security and Privacy Knowledge

Understanding of information management obligations relating to privacy, records management, security classifications, information governance, and regulatory compliance.

Agile Delivery and Governance Experience

Experience working in Agile delivery environments, using tools such as Azure DevOps, and ensuring alignment with enterprise governance, architecture standards, and organisational policies.

The Contractor Personnel will be required to attend quarterly PI Planning in person to support planning, collaboration, knowledge transfer, and other activities as reasonably required by the client.

Essential criteria

• 1.Demonstrated experience designing, implementing and governing enterprise information architectures. This includes developing information models, taxonomies, metadata frameworks, classification structures and content architectures that support information discoverability, accessibility, reuse and business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to assess current-state information environments and design sustainable future-state information architectures aligned to organisational needs.
• 2.Demonstrated ability to engage, influence and collaborate with a broad range of business and technical stakeholders, including executives, architects, delivery teams and governance forums. Proven experience facilitating workshops, eliciting requirements, building consensus and communicating complex information management concepts through clear documentation, presentations and recommendations.
• 3.Demonstrated experience establishing information governance frameworks, information management standards, metadata and classification schemes, and governance practices that improve information quality, compliance and usability. Proven ability to ensure information architecture aligns with enterprise, business, data and solution architecture principles while addressing privacy, security, records management and regulatory obligations.
• 4.Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, build trust, contribute positively to team culture, support others, and create alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.