Enterprise Architect
Contract Type
Contract
Location
New South Wales, Sydney
Industry
IT
Specialisation
Government
Salary
Negotiable
Contact Name
Laurie Weeks
Contact Email
laurie@talenza.com.au
Date published
16-06-2026
Job Reference
BBBH21608
Description
Role: Enterprise Architect
Contract Length: 12-months
Location: Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, or Hobart
NV1 or Baseline Security Clearance Required
An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join a major enterprise transformation program responsible for modernising critical business capabilities and legacy technology platforms.
This role is ideal for a senior architect who enjoys operating across business, application, data and technology domains while partnering closely with delivery teams, stakeholders and governance bodies to drive transformational outcomes.
What You'll Be Doing
- Develop enterprise architecture models, solution concepts, strategic roadmaps, blueprints and implementation strategies.
- Provide architectural guidance and assurance across complex business and technology transformation initiatives.
- Partner with service designers, business analysts, cyber security specialists, architects and delivery teams to shape future-state solutions.
- Translate business outcomes into scalable, secure and sustainable technology architectures.
- Review and assure application, data and technology architecture artefacts across multiple workstreams.
- Produce architecture documentation including solution assurance reports, options papers, statements of requirement and enterprise architecture artefacts.
- Present architecture recommendations to governance forums, architecture boards and senior stakeholders.
- Support procurement activities, vendor engagement and technical evaluations where required.
- Drive alignment with enterprise architecture principles, standards, guardrails and strategic ICT objectives.
About You
- 10+ years' experience working in ICT architecture roles.
- Minimum 5 years' experience operating as an Enterprise Architect on enterprise-wide transformation programs.
- Proven experience delivering architecture artefacts including transformation roadmaps, enterprise solution architectures, integration maps and solution blueprints.
- Strong experience supporting business and technology transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience designing cloud-first architecture strategies and modernisation roadmaps.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking capability with the ability to navigate ambiguity and risk.
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
- Expert knowledge of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Microsoft Well-Architected Framework and/or DoDAF.
Highly Regarded
- Federal Government transformation experience.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in ICT or a related discipline.
- Professional architecture certifications across enterprise, business, application, data or technology domains.
- Cloud architecture certifications across major cloud platforms.
- Experience with ArchiMate, BPMN, UML, Azure DevOps and iServer.
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