Strategic Application Architect – Public Sector

Department of Education; Melbourne; Presencial; AUD 150.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Department of Education is seeking an Application Architect to lead and support key architectural services across technology programmes and initiatives in Victoria’s K–12 education system.

You will drive architecture reviews, develop roadmaps, evaluate new technologies and provide design guidance to project teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and departmental strategy. Strong collaboration with business and technology stakeholders is essential.

Formación

• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Experience with architectural frameworks such as TOGAF or similar.

Responsabilidades

• Lead architecture reviews to assess alignment with enterprise architecture, standards and strategy.
• Provide recommendations and risk assessments on design decisions and architectural exceptions.
• Contribute to governance forums and architecture assurance processes.
• Research and evaluate technologies for relevance, value and strategic fit.
• Advise on technologies that improve application design, interoperability, security and scalability.
• Develop and maintain technology roadmaps for application platforms, tools and integration services.
• Identify opportunities for standardisation, reuse and rationalisation across the application landscape.
• Support project and delivery teams with solution architecture aligned to business needs and enterprise direction.
• Translate business and technical requirements into solution options and conceptual and logical designs.
• Guide delivery teams in architectural best practice.
• Engage with business and technology stakeholders to support alignment and shared understanding.
• Provide thought leadership, mentoring and architectural documentation.

Conocimientos

Architecture reviews

Solution architecture

TOGAF

Agile delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

Educación

IT/CS degree

Herramientas

Cloud platforms

APIs/SOA

Descripción del empleo

The Department of Education is seeking an Application Architect to lead and support key architectural services across technology programmes and initiatives in Victoria’s K–12 education system.

You will drive architecture reviews, develop roadmaps, evaluate new technologies and provide design guidance to project teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and departmental strategy. Strong collaboration with business and technology stakeholders is essential.