Lead Solution Architect

Indigitise Pty Ltd; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Indigitise Pty Ltd seeks a Lead Solution Architect to steer a small team within a SAFe environment, ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions aligned with enterprise principles and CER strategy.

You will shape architecture governance, drive roadmaps with stakeholders, and oversee end-to-end designs across Microsoft tech, including Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Azure services.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in software/solution/system architecture in government or regulated environments.
• At least 3 years leading solution architecture teams or practices with mentoring and delivery uplift.
• Experience in scaled agile environments, PI Planning, and architecture prioritisation.
• Knowledge of governance, risk frameworks (e.g. SABSA, TOGAF), and AI integration.
• Able to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders and document ADRs.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Solution Architects with technical direction and QA across designs.
• Oversee end-to-end technology solutions meeting business, security, performance, and regulatory needs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into architectures and inform decisions.
• Develop and maintain solution architecture artefacts, decisions and governance docs.
• Provide architecture governance and delivery oversight aligning with standards and patterns.
• Contribute to enterprise architecture planning and roadmaps aligning with future-state strategy.
• Drive continuous improvement by evaluating technologies, including AI applicability.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural direction

Stakeholder communication

SAFe / PI Planning

AI integration

Architecture governance

Education

TOGAF Certification

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Dynamics 365

Power Platform

Information Systems / CS / Software Eng

Tools

Azure services

Power BI

Dynamics 365

.NET Core

Job description

The Lead Solution Architect leads a small team of Solution Architects within the CER's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment, ensuring technology solutions are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and aligned with business objectives, enterprise architecture principles, and the CER technology strategy.

Requirements

Key responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Solution Architects, providing technical leadership, architectural direction, and quality assurance across solution design activities.
• Oversee the design and assurance of end-to-end technology solutions that meet business, security, performance, integration, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders, to understand needs and translate requirements into solution architectures, and support informed decision-making.
• Develop and maintain solution architecture artefacts, including designs, diagrams, architectural decisions, and governance documentation.
• Provide architecture governance and delivery oversight, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, reusable patterns, and the CER target state.
• Contribute to enterprise architecture planning and roadmaps, aligning current delivery priorities with the CER’s future-state business and technology strategy.
• Drive continuous improvement by evaluating technologies, processes, and practices, including emerging Microsoft technologies and their applicability to the CER environment.

Personnel requirements

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in software, solution, or system architecture role within government or regulated environments, including the development of end-to-end solution designs, architectural artefacts.
• At least three 3 years demonstrated experience leading solution architecture teams or practices, including providing technical leadership, assuring the quality of architecture deliverables, mentoring and driving architecture capability uplift.
• Demonstrated experience working within scaled agile environments, including participation in Program Increment (PI) Planning and feature assessment, facilitating architecture team scrum events, and architecture work prioritisation.
• Strong knowledge of architecture governance, technology evaluation, and technical risk frameworks (e.g. SABSA, TOGAF), and experience in integrating emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) into existing enterprise architecture and technology ecosystems.
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and to support delivery teams to document Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and architectural decision papers.
• Experience designing and governing solutions leveraging Microsoft technology stack, including:

Microsoft Technology Stack

• Dynamics 365
• Power Platform
• Azure services and cloud-native architectures
• Power BI
• .NET Core

Desirable requirements

• Relevant professional certifications, such as TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and relevant Microsoft certifications.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Current knowledge of Australian Government security (e.g. PSPF, ISM), privacy, digital, records management, and responsible AI requirements.