Senior Solution Architect (PROJ-4595)

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Conduct stakeholder engagement across the Defence and National Intelligence Community (NIC), manage complex relationships, identify emerging and potential risk and recommend strategies to mitigate risk to Mission Data Division’s delivery of capability in accordance with ASD’s Top Secret Integration as a Service (TSIaaS) to Defence.
• Establish and/or maintain technical engagement mechanisms to foster a culture of collaboration and partnership to align Defence project deliverables to the ASD’s strategic direction.
• Interpret and communicate high level architectures and design patterns to shape and guide the design and development of Defence capability integrated solutions.
• Assess emerging and or proposed Defence capability solutions to validate and verify existing requirements and capture emerging requirements.
• Collaborate with ASD business units and technical directors to find alignment between Defence customer expectations and current or future ICT capability.
• Contribute to continuous business improvement process.
• Ensure all work completed meets agreed quality standards and quality control measures.

Technical skills:

• Essential: At least 5 years’ experience providing technical services to Defence capability projects
• Essential: Strong leadership experience and skill as a technical leader
• Essential: Excellent organisational, communication and negotiation skills
• Desirable: Qualifications in relevant technical discipline/s Experience providing technical directions to projects delivering complex software solutions

Essential criteria:

• Autonomy: Works under broad direction. Work is often self-initiated. Is fully responsible for meeting allocated technical and/or project/supervisory objectives. Establishes milestones and has a significant role in the assignment of tasks and/or responsibilities.
• Influence: Influences organisation, customers, suppliers, partners and peers on the contribution of own specialism. Builds appropriate and effective business relationships. Makes decisions which impact the success of assigned work, i.e. results, deadlines and budget. Has significant influence over the allocation and management of resources appropriate to given assignments.
• Complexity: Performs an extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities. Undertakes work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts. Understands the relationship between own specialism and wider customer/organisational requirements
• Business Skills: Advises on the available standards, methods, tools and applications relevant to own specialism and can make appropriate choices from alternatives. Analyses, designs, plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets. Assesses and evaluates risk. Communicates effectively, both formally and informally. Demonstrates leadership. Facilitates collaboration between stakeholders who have diverse objectives. Takes all requirements into account when making proposals. Takes initiative to keep skills up to date. Mentors colleagues. Maintains an awareness of developments in the industry. Analyses requirements and advises on scope and options for continuous operational improvement. Demonstrates creativity, innovation and ethical thinking in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder.