D365 Platform Architect

The purpose of the Department of Health, Disability and Aging (department) is to develop and deliver policies and programs and advise the Australian Government on health, disability and aged care. The department is responsible for achieving the Government’s strategic priorities for better health outcomes and reduced inequality;   Affordable, accessible, efficient and high-quality health systems.  Design and maintain scalable, secure, and reusable technology platforms that support multiple products and services, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, design principles, and organisational strategy. Enable efficient, reliable, and sustainable platform capabilities while minimising technical debt and supporting delivery at scale.  HPRG Digital Branch leads the modernisation of Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and Office of Drug Control’s (ODC) digital systems for the HPRG. This includes building a modern intuitive digital platform for the TGA and the ODC that aims to make interactions with us easy, seamless, secure and efficient for industry, and that supports HPRG staff to enable faster and smoother processing of applications and provides better support for our compliance and regulatory functions.   The Department is seeking to add a D365 platform architect to assist in driving the digital transformation.  Working within BTSS's Program Architecture capability, the Platform Architect acts as the architectural bridge between strategy, program architecture, product delivery teams, enterprise architecture and platform engineering teams. The role supports platform roadmap development, transition planning, dependency management, architecture assurance and the progressive delivery of the TGA future state architecture.  Essential criteria: Microsoft D36 Power Platform Industry certifications, IT Degree or equivalent  Extensive experience in architecting solutions on the D365 platform and the Power Platform at large scale Enterprise level.  Strong understanding of the care economy and underlying regulatory restrictions ensuring informed architecture decision making.   Strong analytical, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills.  Deep knowledge of data governance and compliance in the public sector environment Desirable criteria:  Experience in delivering large scale digital transformation including transitioning from legacy technology onto Azure platforms  Experience working within government or highly regulated environments (desirable).  Certifications in TOGAF 9, COBIT 5 Foundation, SAFe, Scrum and/or ITIL v3 Foundation are desirable.  Demonstrated experience designing complex ICT solutions in large, federal environments.  Key duties and responsibilities The department is seeking to recruit a D365 Platform Architect SFIA 6, to undertake tasks that include, but are not limited to, the following:  Develop and maintain platform architecture aligned to enterprise standards and design principles.  Establish and enforce design standards, patterns, and best practices for platform implementation and adoption.  Ensure platforms meet performance, scalability, security, and reliability requirements.  Identify and manage platform-level risks and technical debt, including maintaining asset metadata.  Develop strategies to improve platform efficiency, reduce risk, and support modernisation.  Provide technical leadership and guidance to platform and delivery teams.  Support integration and reuse of platform services across multiple products and initiatives.  Contribute to architecture governance, including design reviews and alignment with enterprise architecture.  Ensure platform roadmaps support the Department’s target operating model and future state architecture(s).  Identify opportunities to retire legacy technologies and reduce technical debt.  Define platform transition strategies and migration pathways.  Ensure platform design decisions support long-term transformation objectives  Provide architecture assurance across initiatives entering the transformation pipeline.  Assess proposals, discoveries and delivery activities against platform standards and target-state architecture.  Resolve platform-level dependencies impacting the transformation.  Other duties as required and advised by the Architecture Hub and Directors.   The seller must ensure that the Labour Hire worker performing the services during the term of this contract, facilitate an effective transfer of skills and knowledge to the buyer to enable full use of services and deliverables and associated documents.  Criteria The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a response to each criterion. Each response is limited to 3000 characters. Essential criteria 1. - Experience in delivering large scale digital transformation including transitioning from legacy technology onto Azure platforms 2. - Experience working within government or highly regulated environments (desirable). 3. - Certifications in TOGAF 9, COBIT 5 Foundation, SAFe, Scrum and/or ITIL v3 Foundation are desirable. 4. - Demonstrated experience designing complex ICT solutions in large, federal environments. Opportunity summary Sellers can submit Up to 2 candidates Number of sellers invited Between 5 and 10 Number of candidates submitted Fewer than 10 Send us feedback About Accessibility Privacy Terms of use Disclaimer and copyright An initiative of the Digital Transformation Agency The Australian Government acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land, waters and community. 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