Senior Cloud Solution Architect

CYOS Solutions

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Services Australia is at the frontline of government service delivery, supporting millions of Australians, and is front and centre of a vision to be a world leader in government service delivery. It’s using cutting-edge technology to build world class platforms and capabilities to help Australians get on with their lives. Services Australia is seeking to procure a Senior Cloud Solution Architect to play a pivotal role in delivering complex application development projects on public cloud platforms across the Technology and Digital Program (TDP) Group that align with the agency’s strategic objectives. The position requires a seasoned professional with extensive experience and expertise in architecture and implementation of Public Cloud Services. The Senior Cloud Solution Architect will be responsible for the quality of solution architecture work across an organisation. They provide technical leadership in the design and implementation of systems and software to solve business problems. They will specialise in either Azure or AWS public cloud platforms. This role is focused on building secure-by-design architectures, incorporating reusable patterns and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deliver scalable, compliant cloud solutions in line with APS frameworks and regulations. They will collaborate with Architecture, Cyber Security, and Core Infrastructure teams in the group to establish foundational infrastructure architectures, enforce governance, and apply best practices across networking and resource management in your primary platform, while demonstrating skills in both Azure and AWS. They will be expected to operate with a significant degree of independence with a high level of autonomy, while also maintaining close working relationships with key stakeholders and strict adherence to agency processes and procedures. In performing the role, they will be required to identify and drive innovation, manage and lead change, and has an active role in contributing to and implementing the agency’s strategic direction with decision-making and advice to others highly dependent on their own judgement. It is vital they ensure that Services Australia effectively leverages technology to enhance service delivery and meet the needs of the community.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Architect, with expertise in archtiecting greenfield and brownfield setups in either Azure OR AWS public clouds, including IaC implementations and secure-by-design principles.
• Strong knowledge of networking in either or both platforms: Azure (VNets, peering, NSGs, routing) and/or AWS (VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT gateways), including hybrid connectivity.
• Experience in governance and security: Implementing policies, guardrails, RBAC/IAM, and tools like Azure Security Center or AWS Security Hub.
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline), and scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
• Understanding of Australian government cloud requirements, including data sovereignty, security classifications, and regulatory compliance.
• Proficiency in relevant technologies, frameworks, and tools, as well as the ability to translate complex technical requirements into scalable and sustainable solutions is imperative.
• Data governance, privacy laws, and other pertinent policies that impact solution delivery within Services Australia.
• Proven ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and facilitate discussions that drive consensus on ensuring alignment with project and organisational goals.
• Understanding of architecture principles, and enterprise technologies.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Professional presentation skills
• Business process improvement: Level 6 (SFIA) Plans and leads strategic, large and complex business process improvement activities aligned with automation, or exploiting existing or new technologies. Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for business process improvement. Leads the introduction of techniques, methodologies and tools to meet business requirements, ensuring consistency across all user groups. Leads the development of organisational capabilities for business process improvement and ensures adoption and adherence to policies and standards.
• Consultancy: Level 6 (SFIA) Manages the provision of consultancy services and/or a team of consultants. In own areas of expertise, provides advice and guidance to consultants and/or the client when delivering consultancy services. Engages with clients and maintains client relationships. Establishes consultancy agreements/contracts and manages completion and disengagement.
• Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA) Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation. Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
• Enterprise and business architecture: Level 5 (SFIA) Develops models and plans to drive the execution of the business strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance. Contributes to creating and reviewing a systems capability strategy which meets the business's strategic requirements. Determines requirements and specifies effective business processes, through improvements in technology, information or data practices, organisation, roles, procedures and equipment.
• Innovation: Level 6 (SFIA) Obtains organisational commitment to innovation. Develops organisational capabilities to drive innovation. Leads and plans the development of innovation capabilities and implementation of innovation processes, tools and frameworks. Leads the communication and an open flow of creative ideas between interested parties and the set-up of innovation networks and communities.
• Software design: Level 5 (SFIA) Specifies and designs large or complex software applications, components and modules. Adopts and adapts software design methods, tools and techniques. Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision-making. Evaluates software designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action. Ensures that the software design balances functional, quality, security and systems management requirements. Contributes to the development of organisational software design and architecture policies and standards.
• Solution architecture: Level 5 (SFIA) Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available. Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development. Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration. Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions. Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
• Stakeholder relationship management: Level 6 (SFIA) Leads the development of comprehensive stakeholder management strategies and plans. Builds long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external). Facilitates the engagement of stakeholders in support of the delivery of services and change projects. Acts as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders, facilitating relationships between them. Negotiates to ensure that stakeholders understand and agree on what will meet their needs, and that appropriate agreements are defined. Oversees monitoring of relationships including lessons learned and appropriate feedback. Leads actions to improve relations and open communications with and between stakeholders.
• Systems design: Level 6 (SFIA) Develops and drives adoption of and adherence to organisational policies, standards, guidelines, and methods for system design. Champions the importance and value of system design principles and the selection of appropriate systems design life cycle models. Leads system design activities for strategic, large and complex systems development programmes. Develops effective implementation strategies consistent with specified requirements, architectures and constraints of performance and feasibility. Develops system design requiring the introduction of new technologies or new uses for existing technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Governance: Level 6 (SFIA) Implements the governance framework to enable governance activity to be conducted. Within a defined area of accountability, determines the requirements for appropriate governance reflecting the organisation's values, ethics and wider governance frameworks. Communicates delegated authority, benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks. Leads reviews of governance practices with appropriate and sufficient independence from management activity. Acts as the organisation's contact for relevant regulatory authorities and ensures proper relationships between the organisation and external stakeholders.
• Information assurance: Level 5 (SFIA) Interprets information assurance and security policies and applies these to manage risks. Provides advice and guidance to ensure adoption of and adherence to information assurance architectures, strategies, policies, standards and guidelines. Plans, organises and conducts information assurance and accreditation of complex domains areas, cross-functional areas, and across the supply chain. Contributes to the development of policies, standards and guidelines.
• Requirements definition and management: Level 6 (SFIA) Champions the importance and value of requirements management principles and selecting effective requirements management life cycle models. Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for requirements definition and management. Plans and leads scoping, requirements definition and priority setting for complex, strategic programmes. Drives adoption of, and adherence to, policies and standards. Develops new methods and organisational capabilities for requirements management.
• Strategic planning: Level 5 (SFIA) Collates information and creates reports and insights to support strategy management processes. Ensures that all stakeholders are aware of the strategic management approach and timetables. Provides support and guidance to help stakeholders adhere to the approach. Develops and communicates plans to drive forward the strategy and related change planning. Contributes to the development of policies, standards and guidelines for strategy development and planning.

Responsibilities

• Identify the appropriate end-to-end solution portfolio, considering all relevant ICT solutions and service offerings such as best practices.
• Identify solution gaps and develop gap closure options such as the inclusion of components from Independent Software Vendors or customer-specific development.
• Architect the end-to-end functional landscape and solution design to support desired business processes and business/ICT requirements of the customer, ensuring alignment.
• Design robust and reusable architectures to support the deployment of greenfield and brownfield cloud platforms in either Azure or AWS.
• Provide technical guidance, documentation, and training to teams on best practices for both Azure and AWS environments.
• Document, present and discuss the end-to-end architecture and solution options, recommendations and implications, facilitate and support the decision process.
• Identify cross-process and cross-solution integration points and lead the coordination across various software and service components of the end-to-end solution.
• Lead end-to-end solution analysis, design, integration, architecture, co-existence and migration.
• Ensure work aligns with business processes and overall delivery outcomes.
• Act as single point of contact to orchestrate the various parties involved in large and complex projects/programs from a primarily architecture/technical perspective.
• Drive innovation, continuous improvement and manage and lead change.
• Proactively share knowledge and expertise as the subject matter expert.
• Oversee and prepare a range of architecture documentation and reports.
• Collaborate with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to achieve project outcomes.
• Resolve very complex, sensitive and/or escalated technical issues.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees