EL1 Solution Architect, Data Standards Body
Key responsibilities are detailed below (but are not limited to):
- Lead architecture and solution design to critically evaluate standards issues and changes, including one or more of:
- API design that facilitates the efficient, secure and secure transfer of data.
- Identity federation architecture, Open ID Connect, SAML, trust frameworks.
- Identity proofing, attribute verification, digital credentials and wallets, and life cycle management (SCIM, token lifecycle, etc.).
- Cyber security protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, TLS, mTLS), biometrics and authentication technologies, including cryptographic key management.
- Data portability initiatives such as open banking, open finance and open energy and respective schema design.
- Integration, particularly but not limited to with government registries.
- Scalability, performance and availability.
- Translate complex business, user and operational requirements into practical and secure technical solution designs fit for a regulatory environment, and which balance long-term sustainability with delivery constraints.
- Identify opportunities for improvement to current CDR and Digital ID Data Standards and align with relevant international standards to ensure interoperable and best practice standards.
- Assist with the development and documentation of current system processes and future improvements.
- Ensure all solution designs align with enterprise architecture principles, patterns and standards, comply with overarching legal and policy positions and norms for standards or requirements literacy.
- Guide engineering and delivery teams to implement solutions in line with approved architectures, offering direction on technical decisions, integration approaches and issue resolution.
- Input to consultation and delivery processes for the making of the Data Standards instruments in accordance with set timeframes and processes.
- Work collaboratively across the DSB, other agencies, and stakeholders with limited direction against established priorities and practices to deliver quality outcomes and relationships.
- Confidently lead inter-agency discussions with engineers, architects, and policy teams through problem exploration and solution design.
Desirable Qualifications / Experience:
- The ability to quickly understand the policy and data standards landscape for Digital ID and/or the Consumer Data Right.
- The ability to engage collaboratively to develop technical requirements or standards and develop change impact assessments which balance competing views and align to government policy objectives (requiring business, systems, policy or other relevant fields of analysis).
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to lead technical analysis and discussion across a broad range of stakeholders including through public consultation.
- Experience in maintaining requirements libraries and reference architectures or models.
- Qualifications in IT, engineering, cyber security, data or information management or another relevant field are desirable. Professional qualifications or knowledge are also desirable across one or more of:
- Architecture and design (e.g. TOGAF).
- Data and security standards (e.g. ISO/IEC 27001, CISSP, CDMP).
- API and data exchange (e.g. JSON Scheme / OpenAPI specification).
- Identity and trust services (e.g. FIDO, OIDC/OAuth2, SAML federation, CIAM, etc).
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📌 Solution Architect, Data Standards Body
🏢 Commonwealth Treasury
📍 City of Sydney