Lead Architect, Core Modernisation

RBA; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Based at Bella Vista office

Full-time fixed-term until Sept 2027

Job summary

The Reserve Bank of Australia invites applications for a Lead Architect to drive architectural governance, coordination across CoreMod, and alignment with enterprise standards.

You will manage dependencies, track technical debt, and present decisions to governance forums. Hybrid work from Bella Vista; fixed-term until September 2027.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of infrastructure technologies including networking, compute and storage.
• Experience resolving architecture contentions with stakeholders.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and vendor collaboration experience.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate enterprise-level architecture matters and governance.
• Represent CoreMod architecture in enterprise governance forums.
• Maintain target-state architecture and roadmaps across workstreams.
• Manage technical debt register and Day 2 backlog with ownership and timelines.
• Coordinate artefacts to support design reviews and certification processes.

Skills

Infrastructure technologies

Enterprise networking

Virtualisation technologies

Stakeholder engagement

Solution design discussions

Vendor collaboration

Education

TOGAF certification

IT industry qualifications

Job description

Full time, fixed term salaried contract until September 2027

Are you ready to be the architectural linchpin that connects strategy, governance and delivery for a major data centre modernisation program that is in the final year of mission critical workload migration?

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is looking to hire a Lead Architect to provide architectural governance and coordination across the Core Modernisation (CoreMod) program, ensuring key decisions, dependencies and technical debt are effectively managed and aligned to enterprise strategy and architecture standards.

This role is part of a team that provides IT strategy and architecture services to the Bank. We work directly with IT and Business teams to ensure our technology investments are aligned with the Bank’s strategy and plans.

Architecture Advisory / Enterprise Alignment

• Facilitate resolution and escalation of architecture matters requiring enterprise-level consideration by articulating impacts, trade-offs, dependencies, and risk considerations.
• Represent CoreMod architecture considerations in enterprise governance and decision-making forums.
• Maintain oversight of the target-state architecture and roadmap, ensuring individual initiatives contribute to the intended business, application, data and technology outcomes.

Dependency Management

• Work closely with CoreMod PMO and other stakeholders to identify, escalation, manage, and resolve architecture dependencies.
• Provide visibility of downstream organisational and technology impacts arising from CoreMod program decisions.
• Ensure architecture dependencies are documented, tracked, owned, and actively managed through delivery.

Architectural Governance

• Facilitate review and alignment of architectural decisions and design direction across CoreMod workstreams to maintain a cohesive target-state architecture and minimise duplication, divergence and unintended impacts.
• Present architectural decisions and recommendations to the Architecture team for review, endorsement, and governance approval.
• Ensure architectural decisions are recorded, communicated, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

Technical Debt and Day 2 Management

• Maintain the CoreMod technical debt register, tracking remediation plans, ownership, and delivery timelines.
• Manage and maintain the Day 2 backlog, ensuring operational, supportability, and sustainability considerations are captured and prioritised.
• Provide regular reporting on technical debt and Day 2 obligations, including risks and outstanding actions, and escalating matters where management attention is required.

Certification & Compliance

• Ensure architecture artefacts comply with enterprise standards and quality expectations.
• Coordinate and track the completion of required architecture artefacts to support design reviews and certification processes.
• Facilitate the resolution of feedback and ensure outcomes are achieved within agreed timelines.

• Hybrid work environment
• Based at our Bella Vista office
• Full time, fixed term salaried contract until September 2027

Key Skills and Experience

• In-depth knowledge and experience with infrastructure technologies including enterprise networking/compute/storage, and a range of virtualisation technologies
• Experience in resolving solution design and architecture contentions with stakeholders.
• Excellent Stakeholder Engagement skills and experience
• Experience working with integration partners/vendors in large programs of work.
• Qualifications relevant to the Bank or IT industry, including TOGAF, and technical/business domain certifications.

Be More

Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

Why RBA?

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people.

Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go.

Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry, and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward.

Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.

October 09, 2026