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About the Role

As the Solutions Architect, you will lead Treasury's architectural governance and solution design assurance, ensuring technology initiatives align with Treasury's enterprise architecture framework, digital strategy, and target technology landscape. You will review and guide solution designs across a diverse portfolio of initiatives, providing oversight throughout the project lifecycle. This includes identifying design risks, managing technical debt, assessing exceptions, and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, integrated, supportable, and sustainable. You will develop architecture standards, reference architectures, solution designs, roadmaps, and transition plans, while providing trusted advice on technology investments, emerging technologies, and strategic technology direction. A key contribution will be balancing timely delivery with strong architectural governance, cyber security, privacy, and government compliance requirements. You will promote common platforms, shared services, and reusable design patterns to reduce complexity, improve consistency, and deliver lasting value.

Responsibilities

Lead Treasury's architectural governance and solution design assurance.
Ensure technology initiatives align with Treasury's enterprise architecture framework, digital strategy, and target technology landscape.
Review and guide solution designs across a diverse portfolio of business and technology initiatives.
Provide oversight throughout the project lifecycle.
Identify design risks, manage technical debt, and assess exceptions.
Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, integrated, supportable, and sustainable.
Develop architecture standards, reference architectures, solution designs, roadmaps, and transition plans.
Provide trusted advice to governance forums and senior leaders on technology investments, emerging technologies, and strategic technology direction.
Balance timely delivery with strong architectural governance, cyber security, privacy, and government compliance requirements.
Promote common platforms, shared services, and reusable design patterns.
Lead, coach, and develop team members.
Create a shared understanding of technology priorities and expected outcomes.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience as a Solutions Architect designing and delivering complex enterprise technology solutions across cloud, infrastructure, application, integration, and data domains.
Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, architecture principles, solution design methodologies, and technology road mapping.
Experience developing high-quality architectural artefacts, including solution designs, architecture diagrams, standards, roadmaps, and reference architectures.
Experience supporting Architecture Review Boards and other formal technology governance and assurance processes.
Experience supporting digital transformation, cloud adoption, and technology modernisation initiatives within a large and complex organisation.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess solution options, identify risks, and develop practical, sustainable outcomes.
Excellent communication and documentation skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
The ability to build productive relationships, influence architectural decisions, and work collaboratively with business leaders, project teams, technical specialists, vendors, and service providers.
The judgement and resilience to balance delivery priorities with architecture standards, cyber security, privacy, cost, integration, and long-term sustainability.
An up-to-date resume detailing knowledge, skills, and experience in relation to the role.
Complete pre-screening questions as part of the application process.
Partake in a behavioural based interview and undergo additional assessments if shortlisted.
Be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident of Australia.
Undergo background checks and provide confirmation of tertiary academic qualifications before commencement.

Skills

Enterprise architecture frameworks
Architecture principles
Solution design methodologies
Technology road mapping
Architectural artefacts development
Solution design
Architecture diagrams
Standards development
Roadmap development
Reference architectures
Architecture Review Board support
Technology governance
Assurance processes
Digital transformation support
Cloud adoption support
Technology modernisation support
Analytical skills
Problem-solving skills
Communication skills
Documentation skills
Relationship building
Influencing architectural decisions
Collaborative work
Judgement
Resilience
Leadership
Coaching
Mentoring

Location

Sydney CBD
Flexible working options available

Work Type

Temporary
Full-time
Flexible working

Experience Level

Clerk Grade 11/12

Salary/Compensations

$154,231 - $178,369
plus, Superannuation and Leave Loading

Benefits

Buddy system for new starters
Flexible work at our Sydney office
35-hour standard weeks
Accrual of flex time for extra hours worked
Ongoing learning opportunities through expert-led sessions and online training
Wellbeing programs
Various leave options, including paid parental and carers leave

About the Company

Treasury is a whole-of-government financial and economic advisor.
Treasury is a critical component of the government and provides advice that informs a wide range of financial, economic and policy driven work for the state of NSW.
NSW Treasury is committed to building a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve, where everyone feels welcome, supported and able to contribute and do their best work.
NSW Treasury is committed to fair and equitable recruitment processes.
As a Disability Confident Recruiter, NSW Treasury is committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment and supports adjustments so candidates with disability can participate fairly at every stage.
As a Level 1 Activate Carer Employer, we recognise and support employees with caring responsibilities through inclusive and flexible workplace practices.

Equal Opportunity

Encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including First Nations peoples, people with disability, people of all ages and genders, LGBTQIA+ people, and people from diverse cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds.
Actively support workplace and recruitment adjustments to remove barriers and enable equitable participation.
If you require an adjustment or assistance at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact the Talent Advisor listed on the job advertisement or visit the following link for more information: https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/nsw-treasury/about-us/careers