Principal Cloud & Enterprise Architecture Lead

This is a senior architecture leadership role focused on designing secure, scalable, and cloud-first technology environments across complex enterprise landscapes.
You’ll shape enterprise, solution, and cloud architectures while defining future-state technology roadmaps and reusable design standards.
The role spans Azure and AWS, cloud modernization, enterprise integration, identity and security, DevSecOps, data services, and architecture governance.
You’ll act as a trusted technical adviser to executives, delivery teams, security stakeholders, and business leaders, translating strategic priorities into practical technology decisions.
A strong focus on secure-by-design principles means you’ll help ensure platforms meet demanding security, compliance, resilience, and operational requirements.
You’ll also influence multidisciplinary engineering teams through architecture reviews, mentoring, design workshops, and technical guidance.
This is an opportunity to shape technology strategy at enterprise scale while remaining close enough to the technical detail to influence how solutions are actually delivered.

• 15+ years of ICT experience, including at least 8 years in architecture leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise and cloud architectures within large, complex, and regulated environments.
• Strong experience creating architecture artefacts, governance documentation, reference architectures, and technical standards.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure and strong experience designing solutions using AWS services and architecture patterns.
• Proven experience with cloud migration, modernization, and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of API-first architecture, enterprise integration, and middleware platforms.
• Experience designing event-driven architectures using Kafka or equivalent technologies.
• Strong understanding of REST, SOAP, microservices, and modern integration patterns.
• Experience designing identity and access management solutions and applying Zero Trust principles.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise security frameworks and government security controls, including application, network, and cloud security architecture.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, or equivalent DevOps tooling.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automated deployment pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to advise executives and collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to provide technical leadership, facilitate architecture decisions, mentor engineers and architects, and operate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification is desirable.
• TOGAF, SABSA, or an equivalent architecture certification is desirable.
• Experience within Australian Government, Defence, financial services, or critical infrastructure environments is desirable.
• Experience delivering AI, analytics, or enterprise data platform solutions is desirable.
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy while balancing strategic architecture priorities with practical delivery needs.