Principal Solution Architect

• IT & Telecomms
• Architect
• Melbourne
• Permanent / Full Time

• Hybrid working arrangement
• Must have experience working across modern MS techs (Fabric, Azure AI Foundry)
• Opportunity to partner with Execs and senior management

This is an opportunity for an experienced Principal Solutions Architect to take ownership of architecture across security, cloud and applications, while establishing and maturing enterprise architecture practices. Working directly with the CTO and alongside an established Integration Architect, you'll help define how technology supports business growth, operational efficiency and innovation.
With significant investment in modern Microsoft technologies, data and AI, this is a hands-on, high-impact role where your architectural decisions will have a tangible influence on how the business operates.
As the senior architectural authority, you will translate business strategy and operational requirements into secure, scalable and commercially sound technology solutions.
Your responsibilities will span security architecture, cloud and platform strategy, application modernisation and enterprise architecture governance. You'll work closely with technical teams, vendors and senior business stakeholders to ensure technology decisions align with the organisation's strategic objectives.

Key responsibilities

Security Architecture

• Own and implement the security architecture roadmap across identity, network, applications and data.
• Establish and lead an Architecture Review Board, embedding secure-by-design principles across new solutions and cloud workloads.
• Partner with data engineering, IT operations and external security specialists on risk assessments, threat modelling and remediation.
• Ensure architectural decisions support relevant compliance, data handling, access control and vendor risk requirements.

Cloud & Platform Architecture

• Own the target-state architecture across a Microsoft-centric, multi-cloud environment spanning Azure and AWS.
• Define standards for cloud governance, identity, landing zones, infrastructure as code, resilience and disaster recovery.
• Work with the Integration Architect to maintain consistency across shared cloud components and application services.
• Guide the evolution of the Microsoft Fabric data and analytics platform and the governance of Microsoft Copilot adoption.

Application Architecture

• Define and maintain the application architecture roadmap across core business platforms, including construction, project delivery, HR and workplace systems.
• Lead architectural design and oversight for new initiatives and custom internal applications.
• Drive application rationalisation and modernisation, reducing unnecessary complexity and fragmentation.
• Provide architectural guidance on technology selection, solution design and build-versus-buy decisions, considering total cost of ownership.

Enterprise Architecture & Technology Leadership

• Establish practical enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures and technology roadmaps.
• Bridge the gap between business strategy and technical delivery, translating requirements into clear architectural direction.
• Provide governance across projects and vendor engagements to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and aligned with the broader technology landscape.
• Mentor and uplift technical capability across the technology team.
• Monitor the Microsoft and AWS technology roadmaps, identifying opportunities to adopt emerging capabilities in cloud, data and AI.

About you
You'll be an experienced architect who combines strategic thinking with hands-on technical expertise and the ability to drive delivery in a growing organisation.
You will bring:

• 10+ years' experience operating as a Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect or in a comparable senior architecture role.
• Deep, current hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure architecture and governance.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365, with exposure to Microsoft Fabric and Copilot.
• Working knowledge of AWS and multi-cloud architecture.
• A solid understanding of security architecture principles across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Experience developing architecture roadmaps, standards and governance practices.
• The ability to operate autonomously as a senior individual contributor within a lean technology team.
• A delivery-focused mindset, with the ability to turn architectural strategy into practical, executed plans.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to communicate technical decisions in commercial terms to executives and senior business leaders.

Highly regarded

• Experience working across integration, data and delivery teams to ensure end-to-end architectural consistency.
• Hands-on generative AI platform architecture experience with Amazon Bedrock and/or Azure AI Foundry, including RAG, guardrails, evaluation and auditability.
• API-led integration experience using MuleSoft or similar platforms.
• Experience with data platform architecture, lakehouse environments and Microsoft Fabric.
• Background in property, engineering, construction or another asset-intensive industry.

Technology environment
You'll work across a modern, Microsoft-centric, multi-cloud environment incorporating:

• Microsoft Azure, including PaaS and IaaS services
• Microsoft 365 and Copilot
• Microsoft Fabric
• AWS
• MuleSoft and enterprise integration technologies
• Construction and business platforms, including ACC, Aconex, JobPac, EmployeeConnect and M-Files
• ServiceNow, Grafana and associated monitoring capabilities

What's on offer?

• Direct partnership with the CTO and the opportunity to influence technology strategy at an executive level.
• A high-impact architecture mandate within a rapidly growing Australian business.
• The opportunity to establish and mature enterprise architecture practices rather than inherit a large, rigid framework.
• Exposure to modern cloud, data and AI initiatives, including active Microsoft Fabric and Copilot rollouts.
• The opportunity to work alongside an established Integration Architect and help shape the organisation's future technology landscape.

Interested? If you're a senior architect who enjoys combining strategic influence with hands-on technical leadership, and you want to make a meaningful impact in a growing business, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now to explore this opportunity.