Strategic Enterprise Solution Architect - Security

Powerdatagroup; Darwin; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Powerdatagroup in Darwin, Australia, is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to lead enterprise-wide technology and security architecture initiatives. You will shape strategy, governance, and roadmaps across a complex utility environment, engaging executives and technical teams to drive secure, scalable outcomes.

The role requires deep architecture expertise, strong communication, and leadership capabilities, with a focus on risk management and ongoing learning.

Qualifications

• 3 or 4 year science or engineering degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• Broad architectural skillset covering business, application, information, technology, security and governance domains, with deep technical skills in solution architecture development.
• Deep skills in facilitating fact-based decision-making, including building information and viewpoints to articulate challenges, options and solutions.
• Exceptional written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Excellent strategy, technical, analytical and project management skills
• Relevant and industry-recognised architectural certifications
• Excellent leadership, influencing, collaboration, stakeholder engagement, facilitation capabilities
• A genuine ‘people first’ approach to business

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of enterprise solution architecture strategies aligned to business objectives.
• Define future-state architecture roadmaps, standards, principles and reference architectures.
• Identify emerging technologies and market trends relevant to utility operations.
• Contribute to the organisation's technology vision and transformation initiatives.
• Translate business requirements into secure, scalable and supportable technology solutions.
• Develop solution, application, technology and infrastructure architectures.
• Conduct architecture reviews and governance activities.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards and cybersecurity requirements.
• Evaluate architectural options and provide recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Maintain architecture artefacts, technology capability maps and dependency models.
• Assess lifecycle risks, technical debt and technology investment opportunities.
• Drive platform rationalisation and simplification initiatives.
• Support ICT investment planning and technology governance processes.
• Engage with executives, business leaders and technical teams.
• Prepare architecture documents, options papers, strategy papers and business cases.
• Facilitate workshops and architecture review forums.
• Build consensus and influence strategic technology decisions.
• Ensure architecture decisions align with cybersecurity requirements.
• Collaborate with security teams to identify and mitigate technology risks.
• Support compliance with governance, risk and regulatory obligations.
• Promote secure-by-design principles across technology initiatives.

Skills

Solution architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Cybersecurity

Leadership

Education

Engineering/Computer Science degree

Architectural certifications

Job description

Powerdatagroup in Darwin, Australia, is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to lead enterprise-wide technology and security architecture initiatives. You will shape strategy, governance, and roadmaps across a complex utility environment, engaging executives and technical teams to drive secure, scalable outcomes.

The role requires deep architecture expertise, strong communication, and leadership capabilities, with a focus on risk management and ongoing learning.