Senior Domain Architecture Lead: Strategy & Governance

Narooma; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NDIA is seeking a senior Architect to shape the architecture strategy and lead domain-level design within Canberra. You will provide architectural leadership across programs, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and security requirements.

You will collaborate with enterprise, solution and security architects and delivery teams to enable end-to-end architecture, assess emerging technologies, and mentor other architects through complex decisions and governance processes.

Qualifications

• 1.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
• 2.Demonstrated ability to translate organisational strategy, business requirements and complex technology considerations into coherent domain architecture and strategic direction
• 3.Extensive experience developing and applying architecture principles, patterns, standards and governance to guide solutions across multiple programs, systems or delivery initiatives
• 4.Demonstrated ability to analyse complex architectural issues, dependencies and trade-offs and provide authoritative, evidence-based recommendations to senior stakeholders and governance forums
• 5.Strong understanding of contemporary enterprise technology environments, financial management processes, regulatory, audit and compliance requirements, and related standards and practices
• 6.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

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.

Skills

Data

Support

Options

Financial Management

Data Engineering

Architects

Assurance

Investments

Analysis

ERP

Compliance

Mentoring

Business Requirements

Decision-Making

Architecture

Insurance

Strategy

Communication Skills

Security

Finance

Engineering

Business

Leadership

Communication

Management

Job description

NDIA is seeking a senior Architect to shape the architecture strategy and lead domain-level design within Canberra. You will provide architectural leadership across programs, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and security requirements.

You will collaborate with enterprise, solution and security architects and delivery teams to enable end-to-end architecture, assess emerging technologies, and mentor other architects through complex decisions and governance processes.