The Platform Architect works as part of the larger team to support the ongoing operation, development, and integration of an enterprise system within our customer portfolio, with a view to managing the architecture and roadmap of the underlying platform on which the system runs.

Under the direction of the Architect Team Lead, the Platform Architect will be required to develop and update architectural standards and provide integration support and level 4 technical support for the platforms running the application. This role will be full-time, onsite, based at our customer’s premises, a Federal Government department.

Who Are We?

Citadel Edge is an Australian-owned specialist technology company with over 25 years of experience. We serve a range of critical sectors, including government, health, defence, national security, higher education and commercial. Delivering secure, end-to-end solutions, we’re trusted to solve complex problems with clarity, speed, and precision. Citadel Edge unites specialist teams under one trusted brand – streamlining access to advanced and integrated capabilities in software, cyber, and technology.

What’s The Role?

• Design long and short-term plans for development, management and maintenance of the system and platform.

• Ensure that proposed and existing systems architecture is aligned with the Records Management Policy and Enterprise Architectural standards.

• Provide architectural guidance and assistance to technical teams, particularly with reference to platform.

• Develop, document, assess and communicate plans for investing in systems architecture including identification of rationalisation, risk and cost reduction opportunities.

• Review new and existing systems design projects and outsource plans for compliance with standards, architectural plans and sustainability.

• Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts, and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.  Review systems development activities for architectural and quality compliance.

• Provide level 4 support for technical issues in production and liaise with the vendor to diagnose and resolve core COTS product issues.

• Provide senior technical advice on product upgrades and enhancements.

• Develop, document, communicate and enforce a policy for standardising systems and software as necessary.

• Contribute to process improvement initiatives to increase efficiencies across the team.

What’s Our Edge?

• Extra leave – Parental, Volunteer, Pawrental, Birthday, and the opportunity to purchase more.

• Opportunities for leadership & development.

• Employee recognition & celebrations.

• Wellbeing led & community focused environment.

• Most of all, a supportive, inclusive, and diverse company. 

What’s Your Edge?

• NV2 Security Clearance required.

• Experience as an infrastructure architect or systems administrator in Windows, Solaris and Oracle environments, with a strong understanding of infrastructure and platform topologies.

• Experience in Enterprise level multi-server infrastructure and operating system build and administration.

• Configuration and complex problem-solving skills including strong knowledge of platform level scripting languages, for example, Bash, Powershell or Perl.

• Demonstrated understanding of networking, hardware and software technologies.

• Strong architectural knowledge of various high-level applications development languages (particularly PL/SQL, VB, C, Java, Perl and Powershell)

• Familiarity with project management tools, including JIRA.

Not confident that you have everything listed above? Don’t let that stop you applying, and if there are any reasonable adjustments you may need throughout the hiring process, please reach out. We will be happy to assist.