Lead Domain Architect

DFP Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

DFP Recruitment is seeking a Lead Domain Architect to provide strategic architectural leadership across a defined business or technology domain. You will develop and maintain the domain architecture, target state and transition roadmap, ensuring investments align with enterprise principles and business priorities.

You will work with multi-disciplinary teams to provide authoritative architectural advice, guide solution design and ensure interoperability across the domain, while mentoring

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years designing and delivering complex finance and ERP solutions.
• Ability to translate organisational strategy and business requirements into domain architecture and direction.
• Extensive experience applying architecture principles, patterns, standards and governance across programs and delivery initiatives.
• Able to analyse complex architectural issues, dependencies and risks and provide evidence-based recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of contemporary enterprise technology environments, financial management processes, regulatory, audit and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and communicate the architecture, target state and strategic roadmap for a defined domain.
• Provide authoritative architectural advice and technical leadership across programs and initiatives in the domain.
• Ensure solution architectures and investments align with enterprise architecture and security requirements.
• Lead architectural analysis of complex problems and develop strategic options and transition approaches.
• Establish and maintain domain-level architecture principles, standards and guardrails to promote consistency and reuse.

Skills

Domain architecture

Stakeholder leadership

Enterprise architecture

Solution design

Governance & standards

Education

TOGAF certification

Cloud architecture certifications (AWS/Azure)

Tertiary qualifications in enterprise architecture or related

Job description

• Position available in the following states: VIC, NSW, ACT, SA, QLD
• Australian Citizenship Required

DFP Recruitment is seeking a Lead Domain Architect to provide strategic architectural leadership and direction across a defined business or technology domain. The role is responsible for developing and maintaining the domain architecture, target state and transition roadmap, ensuring technology investments and solutions align with organisational strategy, enterprise architecture principles and business priorities.

The Lead Domain Architect works across programs, projects and multidisciplinary teams to provide authoritative architectural advice, guide solution design and ensure consistency and interoperability across the domain. The role identifies dependencies, opportunities for reuse and emerging architectural risks, and supports informed investment and technology decisions.

Key duties and responsibilities

• 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.

Essential criteria

• 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)
• Demonstrated ability to translate organisational strategy, business requirements and complex technology considerations into coherent domain architecture and strategic direction
• Extensive experience developing and applying architecture principles, patterns, standards and governance to guide solutions across multiple programs, systems or delivery initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to analyse complex architectural issues, dependencies and trade-offs and provide authoritative, evidence-based recommendations to senior stakeholders and governance forums
• Strong understanding of contemporary enterprise technology environments, financial management processes, regulatory, audit and compliance requirements, and related standards and practices
• 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

Desirable criteria

• Experience performing a Domain Architect, Enterprise Architect or equivalent senior architecture role within Australian Government or another large, complex organisation
• Formal certifications in enterprise architecture (e.g., TOGAF) or advanced cloud architecture (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert)
• Extensive experience delivering major cloud transformation projects within an Australian Federal or State Government agency
• Relevant tertiary qualifications or professional certifications in enterprise architecture, technology, information systems or a related discipline

DFP welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability. In addition, DFP will provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability throughout the recruitment process.

If you identify as a person with disability and require adjustments to the application, recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please advise your preferred method of communication (email, phone, text).