Senior Domain Architect & Strategy Lead

Softtest Pays Pty Ltd; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) seeks a seasoned Principal Architect to lead the architecture strategy for a defined business domain. You will guide programs and initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, security requirements, and governance standards.

You will collaborate with enterprise, solution, security architects and data leaders to shape end-to-end architectures and influence critical investment decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in designing and delivering complex architecture for finance/ERP domains
• Experience in EL2 or equivalent principal architect capacity or senior architecture roles
• Ability to translate strategy and business requirements into domain architecture
• Experience applying architecture principles, governance, and standards across multiple programs
• Understanding of enterprise technology environments, financial processes, compliance and controls
• Senior stakeholder leadership and communication skills; influence executives and delivery teams

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate architecture strategy, target state and roadmaps for a defined domain
• Provide authoritative architectural leadership across programs and initiatives in the domain
• Ensure architectures align with enterprise strategy, security requirements and priorities
• Lead architectural analysis of complex problems and develop strategic options
• Establish domain architecture principles, patterns, standards and guardrails
• Review designs and decisions for cross-domain dependencies, risks and opportunities
• Collaborate with enterprise, solution, security architects and data leaders to ensure end-to-end coherence
• Influence investment decisions by outlining architectural impacts and dependencies
• Represent the domain in architecture and governance forums and support decision-making
• Monitor emerging technologies and assess their impact on the domain
• Lead resolution of significant architectural issues and guide priorities and trade-offs
• Build architectural capability through leadership, guidance and mentoring

Job description

National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) seeks a seasoned Principal Architect to lead the architecture strategy for a defined business domain. You will guide programs and initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, security requirements, and governance standards.

You will collaborate with enterprise, solution, security architects and data leaders to shape end-to-end architectures and influence critical investment decisions.