Information Architect Lead – Enterprise IA & Governance

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

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.