Canberra, ACT; Adelaide, SA; Sydney, NSW; Melbourne, VIC; Brisbane, QLD $152,362 - $182,891 Role Reporting to the Assistant Secretary, the EL2 ICT Technical Director (Solution Architecture) provides senior architecture leadership across multiple delivery streams, operating with a high degree of independence and shaping the future direction of the Division. You will play a pivotal role in designing the next generation of Employment, Skills, Workplace Relations, and Education services by putting customers at the centre, challenging conventional thinking, and using architecture to solve complex policy and delivery challenges. Duties and Responsibilities Own end‑to‑end solution architecture for major initiatives, define current/state and target state architectures, conduct options analysis and trade‑off decisions, and specify non‑functional requirements (e.g., security, privacy, performance, availability, resilience, operability, and cost). Develop and govern architecture patterns, guardrails, and standards, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, whole‑of‑government direction, and platform roadmaps, maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and ensure traceability. Lead and assure solution design across multiple teams, chair/participate in architecture and design reviews, resolve integration and interoperability challenges, and ensure adherence to approved patterns and controls. Design for integration and data, including API‑led and event‑driven architectures, interface specifications, data contracts, lineage and authoritative sources, ensuring reuse, cohesion, and maintainability. Influence investment and delivery decisions by providing clear, evidence‑based architectural advice for business cases, delivery plans and governance forums, articulate risks, assumptions, costs and benefits. Produce high‑quality architecture artefacts, such as solution overviews, high‑level designs (HLDs), logical/physical architecture models, sequence diagrams, integration views, data models, and migration approaches. Champion secure‑by‑design, privacy‑by‑design, accessibility and reliability through architecture, collaborating with security, risk, service design, and delivery stakeholders to embed controls and user needs. Manage architecture RAID (risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies) at portfolio level, addressing technical debt, complexity and obsolescence, and planning pragmatic pathways to target state. Operate effectively in high‑pressure, time‑critical environments, balancing competing priorities, tight deadlines and emerging issues while maintaining quality and governance standards. Exercise a high level of integrity, discretion and probity when working with sensitive, pre‑decision or politically sensitive matters, ensuring confidentiality and appropriate escalation of risks. Build strong relationships with business areas, delivery partners and vendors to enable coherent, scalable and sustainable solutions. Qualifications and Education 5 years' experience delivering large‑scale ICT initiatives, providing technical leadership across complex, multi‑team environments. Demonstrated ability to develop and apply architecture strategies, patterns and standards, and provide clear, influential advice to senior stakeholders on complex risk and governance matters. Eligibility Citizenship – must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, be in the process of obtaining it. Security Clearance – the successful candidate must hold, or have the ability to obtain and maintain, a Baseline security clearance. JLjbffr J-18808-Ljbffr