ASD 6 & EL1 Solution Architects

The Opportunity

An ASD 6 and EL1 Solutions Architect may lead a team and will be accountable for the outcomes of the teams work through appropriate use of resources to produce and achieve outcomes. An EL1 Solutions Architect will also be responsible for actively managing key stakeholder relationships.

Key Duties:

• Work collaboratively with delivery divisions to develop designs, policies, standards and frameworks to support a broad range of business use cases, ensuring consistency across the organisation, and compliance with security standards.
• Ensures appropriate tools and methods are identified, understood and employed in architecture development. In order to retain consistency with specified requirements across projects or programs.
• Facilitate the review and evaluation of proposals against existing architectural standards, guidelines, principles, design patterns and technical reference models.  
• Act as a subject matter expert and a source of guidance for projects to ensure architectural designs and solutions align with ASD’s Enterprise Architectures.
• Demonstrate detailed research and analysis skills in support of the solution design activities and the development of options to achieve the required business needs.
• Represent the interests of the ASD on a range of internal and external forums and committees.
• Draw upon project management knowledge to contribute to project plans and documentation.
• Actively manage key stakeholder relationships and be required to identify relevant stakeholders’ expectations and concerns to develop and communicate methodologies and practices to achieve outcomes.

Further information can be found at: I’m changing my career | Australian Signals Directorate (asd.gov.au).

ASD is seeking applicants to fill current and anticipated vacancies and to create a merit pool for future vacancies. In line with the Australian Public Service Commissioner’s Direction 2022, upon completion of the recruitment activity, the merit pool will be available to locations across Australia.

We are looking for applicants with the ability to think critically, those who are able to communicate with both technical and non-technical people, and who are motivated to learn and develop their skills. Our Ideal candidates will:

• Have the ability to be innovative, team orientated and have a passion for building or supporting strategically important ASD capability. 
• Be able to exercise good judgement, demonstrate initiative and have a focus on continuous improvement.
• Be team players, great communicators and have a high level of emotional intelligence to work within our growing team and bring others on the journey as we mature ASD’s enterprise architecture practice.
• Have a passion for providing excellent support to business stakeholders, senior leadership and the organisation as a whole.
• Value the importance of being part of a diverse and inclusive team to deliver results in support of broader organisational goals and aims in a fast-paced environment.
• Have the ability to think critically, communicate with both technical and non-technical people, and who are motivated to learn and develop their skills.
• Embrace the challenge of joining an organisation undergoing rapid growth and transformation, and supporting outcomes to further Australia's national interest.

To be eligible for employment with ASD, you must meet all of the following eligibility criteria:

• Australian Citizenship - Applicants must be an Australian citizen. Only in exceptional circumstances can this requirement be waivered. 

• Organisational Suitability Assessment - The preferred applicant will be required to undergo an Organisational Suitability Assessment (see Organisational Assessment section).

• Security Clearance - It is a condition of employment that applicants are willing and able to obtain and maintain the requisite security clearance for the duration of their employment with ASD.

• Health Assessment - The preferred applicant may be required to undergo a medical examination conducted by the Agency’s preferred medical provider. 

Please ensure that you meet the eligibility requirements outlined in this Information Pack prior to submitting an application.

Desirable Qualifications, Experience or Training

• Relevant tertiary degree in an ICT, business, organisational change management, information systems, computer science, computer engineering, data engineering, software engineering, cyber security or related fields.
• Industry certifications in relevant architectural and security frameworks, methodologies or notations. (e.g. TOGAF and/or Archimate Enterprise Architecture certifications, Business Process Modelling Notation, SABSA, CISSP, BCS Enterprise Architecture).
• Industry Architecture certifications related to large scale cloud providers (AWS, Azure).
• Cloud infrastructure and systems, Customer Relationship Management systems, and/or experience with cloud migrations, and telephony call centre integration.
• Contribute or develop solution architecture documentation and artefacts, solution designs, architecture diagrams, integration/data flows, technical decisions and implementation guidance.
• Certifications in portfolio, program and project methodologies. (Agile, Prince 2, PMP, Lean Six Sigma).
• Demonstrated ability to perform against relevant SFIA 9 skill categories STPL, ARCH.