Lead Solutions Architect

  • Australia
  • Sydney
  • Permanent
  • Negotiable

Lead Solutions Architect

Location: Sydney, NSW
Reporting to: Head of Solutions

Position Summary

A large organisation in the higher education sector is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect to lead a team of architects delivering end-to-end solution designs across key business domains. This role ensures technology solutions align with enterprise architecture standards while meeting current and future business needs.

You will provide technical leadership, architectural governance, and strategic guidance to deliver scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end solution architecture across a portfolio of business applications and technologies

  • Translate business needs into enterprise system designs and technology roadmaps

  • Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture standards and target state

  • Mentor and lead a team of Solution Architects to build a strong architecture capability

  • Partner with Enterprise Architecture to define standards, principles, and future direction

  • Support technology selection, solution design decisions, and architecture governance

  • Work with delivery, infrastructure, and vendor teams to ensure solutions are implemented as designed

  • Contribute to business cases, strategic planning, and technical steering forums

Skills & Experience

  • Tertiary qualification with strong experience in software development and at least 3 years leading a team in a similar capacity

  • Proven experience designing enterprise-scale solutions using recognised architecture frameworks

  • Strong knowledge of cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and integration patterns (APIs, messaging, iPaaS)

  • Experience working in Agile and DevOps delivery environments

  • Strong stakeholder engagement, leadership, and communication skills

  • Ability to balance strategic direction with practical delivery outcomes

Highly desirable: Experience working within a large university or complex education environment.

Why Join?

  • Play a strategic leadership role in shaping enterprise technology direction

  • Work in a collaborative, innovative, and values-driven environment

  • Influence large-scale digital transformation initiatives

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