Solution Architect
Australian Electoral Commission
Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain Negative Vetting 1
Australian Citizenship Required?: Yes
Contract Length (months): 12
Contract Extension (months): 24
Job details
Solution Architect will work directly with IT, business areas and Agile Delivery Teams (ADTs) to provide strategic and technical guidance and lead/assist with the development of solution architectures.
Key duties and responsibilities
The Solution Architect will be responsible for, but not limited, to:
- Leading the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.
- Providing technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration.
- Identifying and evaluating alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance, and scalability.
- Producing specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers, and interfaces for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
- Managing and coordinating the target architecture across multiple projects, work streams or initiatives, ensuring architecturally significantly determinations and decisions are effectively documented.
- Contributing to the establishment and maintenance of policies, principles, and practices for the selection of architecture components.
- Ensuring relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices (including security) are applied correctly and consistently.
- Evaluating requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommending actions to delegates and governance bodies for endorsement/decision or other appropriate action.
- Working as part of an Agile project/program team or business as usual area as directed.
- Performing other duties as directed from time-to-time by Directors/Team Leaders or a delegate.
About the team
The Funding and Disclosure Reform (FAD) Program was established to enable the AEC to implement and administer legislative amendments to the Commonwealth Funding and Disclosure Scheme (the Scheme) as set out in Part XX of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Electoral Act) to increase transparency and accountability in Australia’s electoral system. The FAD Program is made up of three branches – the Program Management Office Branch, the Regulatory Enablement Branch, and the Technology Delivery Branch – that will work together to uplift the AEC’s regulatory capability by designing, building and implementing new processes, resourcing, tools, systems and technology to successfully administer the Scheme.
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
- Leading the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.
- Providing technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration.
- Identifying and evaluating alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance, and scalability.
- Producing specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers, and interfaces for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
- Managing and coordinating the target architecture across multiple projects, work streams or initiatives, ensuring architecturally significantly determinations and decisions are effectively documented.
- Contributing to the establishment and maintenance of policies, principles, and practices for the selection of architecture components.
- Ensuring relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices (including security) are applied correctly and consistently.
- Evaluating requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommending actions to delegates and governance bodies for endorsement/decision or other appropriate action.
- Working as part of an Agile project/program team or business as usual area as directed.
- Performing other duties as directed from time-to-time by Directors/Team Leaders or a delegate.
Desirable criteria
- Tertiary qualifications or industry recognised certification in Information Management, Computer Science, or a relevant discipline.
- Strong skills in Archimate (3.1) as an architecture documentation and definition language.
- Demonstrated experience delivering large-scale ICT transformation projects/programs, preferably in a Commonwealth Government setting.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Commonwealth Government frameworks, including the ICT frameworks.
- Demonstrated understanding of Agile ways of work (e.g. SCRUM, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework [SAFe] or similar).