EL1 Salesforce IT Architect

Australian Citizens with NV1 Clearance residing in Australia only respond.

Key duties and responsibilities

Job Specific role description:

• As a Salesforce Security Architect, you will provide expert advice and governance to build secure solutions to meet the department's business and compliance requirements within a project delivery team. You will collaborate with Solution Leads, Enterprise Architects and security stakeholders to ensure security architecture is embedded into all solution designs. You will ensure out-of-the-box security features and platform capabilities are leveraged to maximize value, sustainability, and compliance, while maintaining best practice when implementing advanced security controls.
• You will work closely with business analysts, developers, testers, administrators and release managers to ensure solutions and processes meet security, quality, and compliance requirements. You will also ensure secure design principles are upheld throughout the DevOps lifecycle, including build, test, and deployment stages.

This is a delivery and ongoing assurance role, with the following responsibilities:

• Participate in the planning and analysis of business requirements, ensuring security considerations are embedded in all system changes and enhancements.
• Remain current with Salesforce security technologies, government cloud policies, and industry best practices.
• Translate solution designs into secure configurations and architecture patterns, aligned with development, security, and governance standards.
• Apply Salesforce security capabilities including Shield (encryption, event monitoring, audit trail), identity and access management, and data protection controls.
• Identify, assess, and manage security risks, ensuring adherence to departmental policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Investigate security incidents or breaches and recommend appropriate control improvements.
• Support quality assurance and release management operations to ensure security controls are tested, validated, and maintained throughout deployments.
• Plan and conduct information assurance and accreditation activities across complex and cross-functional environments.
• Facilitate and contribute to Technical Architecture Governance forums, ensuring alignment with enterprise security architecture.
• Manage the Platform Enablement team, to sustain and continuously improve the Salesforce platform and common components, and ensure compliance to Cyber Security controls;
• Provide clear and actionable advice to technical and non-technical stakeholders on security risks, controls, and compliance requirements.
• Produce security architecture, risk, and compliance documentation as required by the project.