Osborne Richardson are public sector specialists, and we are delighted to be assisting our local council client in Melbourne with the following exciting opportunity:

• Initially to 10 Oct 2025
• $ strong market rates
• Melton location
• Immediate start

About the role:

The Principal Architect – Technology Change Program (TCP) is a senior strategic role responsible for leading the architectural design and integration oversight of the TCP portfolio. This role ensures that all program components – including ERP, CRM, integration platforms, and legacy system transition – are designed and delivered in alignment with the endorsed Enterprise Architecture principles, the Integration Strategy, and organisational priorities.

Working closely with the CIO, Program Director, and vendors, the Principal Architect ensures technical decisions support long-term sustainability, security, and service delivery improvements across council systems

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the architectural vision for TCP, ensuring strategic alignment with enterprise goals and long-term ICT roadmap.
• Oversee architectural design and integration across modules such as Finance, HR, Property, Rates, Customer, and Regulatory Services.
• Ensure future-state design accommodates legacy systems and data migration plans, minimising disruption and supporting continuity.
• Work closely with project teams, technical experts, solution architects and business leaders to ensure integration solutions are smoothly implemented and align with strategic goals. This position plays a key role in bridging technical and operational perspectives, facilitating consensus among stakeholders, and ensuring that system and data integration support both the organisation’s short-term objectives and long-term vision.
• Lead and facilitate workshops (as needed) for assessing, analyzing, developing, documenting, and planning changes to the current and future integration environment, including evaluating risks to the integrity of infrastructure inherent in proposed implementations.
• Accountable for tracking decisions and managing the development, publication, implementation and compliance of deliverables and related standards and procedures.
• Implement the Integration Strategy endorsed by Council, ensuring interoperability across platforms using APIs, middleware, or integration layers.
• Provide architecture assurance across TCP workstreams, including vendor solutions and in- house components.
• Champion data, security and performance standards across systems.
• Implement the Integration Strategy endorsed by Council, ensuring interoperability across platforms using APIs, middleware, or integration layers.
• Provide architecture assurance across TCP workstreams, including vendor solutions and in- house components.

Required Skills & Experience:
• Proven expertise in system integration, data architecture, and cloud-based design patterns.
• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as TechnologyOne, Salesforce, or similar.
• Strong understanding of API-based integration, middleware, and legacy decommissioning strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence outcomes and present to executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage architectural dependencies and decisions across a multi-year change program.