Job Description

Solution Architect

• Location – Greater Sydney Area / Parramatta
• Employment type – Ongoing Full-Time, 35 hours per week
• Grade – Clerk Grade 11/12
• Salary – $149,739 pa - $173,174 pa plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

As a Solution Architect, you’ll design and deliver technology solutions that meet business requirements while aligning with enterprise architecture standards. You’ll provide expert advice, create detailed solution specifications, and collaborate with project teams, analysts, and vendors to ensure successful delivery. Reporting to the Solution Architect Manager, you’ll maintain governance, reduce duplication, and support efficient, scalable, and innovative ICT initiatives across the organisation.

What you’ll do

Join the Solution Architecture Team to design and deliver fit-for-purpose, compliant technology solutions. You will:

• Capture and evaluate solution requirements
• Develop artefacts and present for architecture approval
• Collaborate with stakeholders and vendors on best-fit solutions
• Define integrations and enhance user experience
• Ensure security, governance, and compliance
• Provide technical guidance across projects
• Balance competing priorities and stakeholder needs

Work in a supportive, experienced team with flexible hybrid work—two days from home weekly to support work-life balance.

What we’re looking for

We’re seeking a Solution Architect with broad expertise across infrastructure, applications, cloud, networking, security, and information management.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Experience with hybrid Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and on-prem deployments
• Strong business acumen, workshop facilitation, and cost estimation skills
• Expertise in technology research, RfX participation, and solution impact assessments
• Excellent communication and documentation skills for architecture artefacts
• Preferred: Azure/AWS/security certifications, SAP, Power BI, Salesforce, Pega, Dynamics
• Preferred: Middleware integration experience (e.g., Mulesoft) across diverse technical landscapes

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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

A challenging and rewarding career

Flexible, autonomous work environment

Competitive pay and conditions

Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date resume (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

• Targeted Question 1

Describe the reasons of failure of a technical project you may have handled in the past. What was your approach to fix the same?

• Targeted Question 2

In an impasse how do you communicate the issue and gain buy-in from stakeholders like Operations or EA Team?

Applications closeSunday, 12 April 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Jitender Arora at jitender.arora@dcj.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Poppy Sgro on poppy.sgro@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visitInclusion and diversity on the DCJ website

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