Provide expert architectural guidance to high-priority projects, ensuring solutions align with the DVA Digital Strategy and target state architecture.
Develop High-Level Designs (HLDs) and solution blueprints that bridge the gap between complex business requirements and technical implementation.
Conduct technical assessments of new solution requests and External Costing Requests (ECRs) to ensure value for money.
Collaborate with Services Australia architects to ensure alignment between DVA-specific solutions and shared services ecosystem.
Lead the technical design of DVA’s future-state cloud capability, including the definition of the Cloud Operating Model and Landing Zone architecture.
Develop lifecycle roadmaps for DVA’s SaaS portfolio to prevent platform sprawl and ensure architectural coherence.
Provide technical leadership on the migration of legacy on-premises applications to cloud-native or hybrid environments.
Embed 'Security by Design' principles into all architectural patterns, ensuring compliance with the ISM, PSPF, and Essential Eight.
Design the security architecture for the department’s cloud capabilities and SaaS integrations.
Support the technical design of the Security and Information and Event Management (SIEM) capability uplift.
Design the technical strategy for consolidating DVA’s legacy data stores into a unified modern cloud data platform.
Demonstrate hands-on capability in designing and building modern data pipelines (ETL/ELT) and data flows within a cloud environment (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Databricks).
Design architectures that support the scaling of Enterprise Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Define technical data governance standards.

Requirements

Proven experience applying architectural frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, SABSA, DAMA) in a complex enterprise environment.
Deep technical understanding of cloud platforms (specifically Microsoft Azure) and experience in designing secure, scalable cloud-native solutions.
Demonstrated experience in modern data engineering, including cloud-based data ingestion, transformation.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

High-Level Designs (HLDs)cloud architecturecloud-native solutionsdata pipelinesETLELTdata governancedata transformationsecurity architecturetechnical assessments

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaboration

Certifications

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