Senior Solution Architect

About Seqwater

Water is essential for life. At Seqwater, we’re not just delivering water—we’re driving innovation, growth and transformation to secure the future of water across South East Queensland.

As one of the largest water businesses with the most geographically spread and diverse asset base of any capital city in Australia, our operations extend from the New South Wales border to the base of the Toowoomba ranges and north to Gympie.

As we enter an exciting period of expansion, we're embracing new technologies and sustainable practices to meet the growing needs of our region. We work collaboratively across our organisation and with our stakeholders, constantly striving to enhance the quality of service we provide. As we modernise our systems and invest in smarter water grids, we remain focused on delivering the highest standard of service, always with the future in mind.

Our transformation is about more than just infrastructure—it’s about people. Our team of dedicated professionals are united by a shared passion for creating lasting, meaningful outcomes for the communities we serve, and this is reflected in Our Vision, Water for Life, Our Promise - Safe for Life, and Our Values of integrity, respect, care, and courage that shape everything we do.

You’ll be working on some of the most high-profile water infrastructure projects in the industry, helping to secure Water for Life for generations to come.

About Your Opportunity

As the Senior Solution Architect, you will lead Seqwater’s Solution Architecture team and practice, delivering high-quality, streamlined architecture services across projects and operational initiatives. You will ensure solutions are designed and delivered in line with established standards, governance frameworks and best-practice architecture principles.

You will play a key role in enabling organisational benefits through technology solutions, while driving the ongoing maturity of Seqwater’s Solution Architecture practice. Working closely with technology and business stakeholders, you will identify efficiencies and improve delivery outcomes through the development of reusable solution artefacts, design patterns and architecture standards.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead Seqwater’s Solution Architecture practice, driving best practice and promoting the value of solution architecture across the organisation.
• Act as the design authority for technology solutions, guiding architecture activities and ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and governance.
• Develop and maintain solution architecture artefacts, standards and design patterns to improve consistency, integration and delivery outcomes.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to shape strategic and operational initiatives, ensuring solutions meet business needs and deliver value.
• Lead and mentor the Solution Architecture team, overseeing capability development, resource planning and the quality of architectural deliverables. 

About you

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

• Tertiary qualifications in technology, engineering, science, mathematics or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in Solution Architecture, with strong expertise across business, information, application and technology domains.
• Proven experience developing solution architecture frameworks, artefacts, templates and structured models.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, governance frameworks and reference architectures.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, with experience providing technical guidance and influencing outcomes across complex technology environments.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, consultation and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively across business and technology teams.

This role will be offered on a full-time 2 year fixed term contract, with a competitive salary, plus 12.75% superannuation.

Appointment to this role is subject to the provision of a national police check and may be subject to other medical/character requirements. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically deemed ineligible. Each application will be considered on its merits.

For a more detailed preview of the work that you will be involved in for this role, feel free to take a look at the position description on our careers page - careers.seqwater.com.au   We also invite you to connect with us on LinkedIn and join our growing community of followers to see all the latest news and job opportunities as and when they happen - https://www.linkedin.com/company/seqwater/

If you are looking for an extraordinary career in which you can make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you! 

To apply

Submit your cover letter outlining how you meet the requirements of the role and your resume via the Apply button.

Applications close: 11:55PM AEST, Sunday 30^th August 2026

For further information please email enquiries to recruitment@seqwater.com.au

Please note – applications cannot be accepted via email.