Senior Cloud Solution Architect

Role Overview

• 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
• Architect the end-to-end functional landscape and solution design to support desired business processes and business/ICT requirements of the customer
• 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
• 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

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Architect
• Expertise in architecting greenfield and brownfield setups in either Azure OR AWS public clouds
• 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
• 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

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Python

Benefits

• Must be able to obtain Negative Vetting Level 1