EL1 - Assistant Director, Solution Architect

As a world leading library, the National Library of Australia offers an innovative and collaborative workplace where exceptional team players and technical specialists can flourish. As part of the Library’s team, you will help support organisational reform, working collaboratively with your team to shape the Library’s future.

The Library is seeking to fill a ongoing EL1 Assistant Director, Solution Architect role in the Strategy and Architecture Section of the Digital Branch.

The Assistant Director, Solution Architect provides a dedicated point of technical leadership between business needs and delivery. The role helps ensure technology decisions are made consistently, risks are identified early and delivery teams have clear direction before implementation begins. 

We are looking for an experienced solution architect who can work confidently across business and technical teams, exercise sound judgement and turn complex problems into practical, supportable solutions. The ideal applicant will be collaborative, pragmatic and comfortable influencing decisions without over-engineering, with strong experience across applications, integration, cyber and modern technology environments. 

To succeed in this role:

• Experience across integration, APIs, cloud and hybrid environments, cyber security and digital storage is desirable, along with familiarity with recognised architecture frameworks.
• The ideal applicant will bring strong technical judgement, practical delivery experience and the ability to communicate clearly with business and technical stakeholders.

• Applicants should be Australian citizens to be eligible for APS employment.
• The preferred applicants will be required to successfully undergo a police record check and must be willing to disclose all relevant and required information.
• The preferred applicant must be able to obtain and maintain a baseline security clearance (with the ability to apply for a NV1 security clearance). 

We encourage and welcome applications from people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQA+ people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and mature age people.