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Posted 12 June, 2026

Multiple Enterprise / Solution Architect

Softtest pays pty ltd
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Full Time
Reference: 421_626622_V63XVYY6

Australian Citizens residing in Australia only respond.

Key duties and responsibilities

Enterprise architecture responsibilities

  • Design and implement an enterprise architecture framework tailored to the departments needs.
  • Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artefacts such as business capability models, target state architectures, technology roadmaps, and technical landscape overviews.
  • Support and strengthen architecture governance to enable consistent, scalable, and wellassured technology decisions.
  • Translate strategic objectives, policy drivers, and investment priorities into actionable enterprise architecture guidance.
  • Provide authoritative architecture advice to support portfolio planning, investment proposals, and wholeofgovernment alignment.

Solution architecture responsibilities

  • Lead or assure the development of endtoend solution architectures for digital and ICT initiatives, from discovery through to delivery.
  • Produce and review solution architecture artefacts including highlevel designs, detailed designs, options analyses, and architectural assessments.
  • Ensure solution designs align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and wholeofgovernment policies.
  • Work collaboratively with delivery teams, platform specialists, cyber security, and business stakeholders to design fitforpurpose, sustainable solutions.
  • Identify architectural risks, constraints, and dependencies and provide clear recommendations to support informed decisionmaking.

Capability uplift and collaboration

  • Collaborate across business and ICT to ensure architecture is understood, adopted, and applied consistently.
  • Coach and support architects, delivery teams, and stakeholders in applying architecture best practices.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of architecture capability, tools, patterns, and guidance across the department.

Criteria

The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.

Essential criteria

  • 1.5+ years experience operating as an Enterprise Architect and/or Solution Architect, ideally within Australian Government environments. Demonstrated ability to work across both enterpriselevel strategic architecture and solutionlevel design and assurance.
  • 2.Proven experience developing enterprise architecture artefacts and solution architectures in complex environments. Demonstrated experience translating strategic objectives and business requirements into actionable architecture deliverables.
  • 3.Strong understanding of architecture principles, practices, and governance, and the ability to apply them pragmatically.
  • 4.Experience designing endtoend solutions across application, data, integration, infrastructure/cloud, and security domains.
  • 5.Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills across business and technical audiences.
  • 6.Deep understanding of Australian Government digital policies, architecture standards, and wholeofgovernment strategies, including alignment with Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) requirements.

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