Technical Lead

Whizdom Recruitment; Canberra; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Whizdom Recruitment in Canberra is seeking a Technical Lead to shape cryptographic services, PKI, and HSM architectures across the enterprise. You will drive architecture governance, risk management, and implementation practices, collaborating with engineering and operations to raise maturity and resilience.

The role focuses on designing target cryptographic architectures, leading security reviews, and mentoring teams while ensuring alignment with government standards and organisational

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for enterprise PKI, HSM and cryptographic services.
• Define and govern target cryptographic architectures and security standards.
• Lead governance artefacts, policies, procedures and risk management processes.
• Assess capabilities and support roadmap planning and future-state design.
• Mentor teams, provide capability uplift, and ensure secure implementation and operations.

Job description

Technical Lead Whizdom Recruitment ACT, AU

About the Role:

The role will contribute to capability assessment, architecture development, documentation uplift, operational process improvement, transition planning and future-state service design. Working across business, project, engineering and operational teams, the successful candidate will provide technical leadership to identify capability gaps, develop practical and sustainable solutions, and improve the maturity and long-term sustainability of the Department's cryptographic services capability.

Primary Duties:

• Provide technical leadership for the design, delivery and ongoing operation of enterprise PKI, HSM and cryptographic services.
• Lead the development and maintenance of cryptographic governance artefacts, including policies, standards, procedures, operating models and security risk management processes to support the secure operation of PKI and related trust services.
• Define, govern and maintain target cryptographic architectures, including trust models, key management approaches, availability requirements and security standards.
• Assess current capabilities and conduct gap analysis activities to support roadmap development, business cases and future-state planning.
• Act as a senior technical authority for cryptographic and security architecture decisions, engaging with stakeholders across business, project and operational teams.
• Lead solution architecture and detailed technical design activities, ensuring secure implementation, deployment and operational practices.
• Identify and manage cryptographic risks, platform dependencies and operational resilience requirements.
• Support engineering teams through design, build, testing, release and transition-to-operations activities.
• Produce and maintain architectural artefacts, technical designs, operational documentation and implementation guidance.
• Support the ongoing operation and improvement of cryptographic services, including upgrades, maintenance, testing and issue resolution.
• Ensure services align with organisational security policies, government standards and industry best practice.
• Provide technical mentoring, knowledge transfer and capability uplift across engineering and operational teams.

Location and Contract Term: This role is Canberra based. 12 month contract with 2 x 12-- month contract extension options pending budget and delegate approval.

Security Requirements: Applicants must be Australian Citizens and hold a NV1 (minimum) security clearance.