1 Lead Security Architect

Overview The Department of Finance (Buyer) is seeking a self-motivated and experienced Security Architect to lead the assessment, identification and implementation of solutions to improve the Buyer's cyber security posture and support an enterprise approach to cyber security architecture and practices. Purpose The Security Architect role reduces organisational risk, improves consistency of security controls across the technology portfolio, supports regulatory compliance, and enables the delivery of secure, resilient, and trusted digital services. It also strengthens the maturity of the organisation's enterprise architecture capability by providing a dedicated security architecture function aligned to strategic business outcomes. The Role The Security Architect is responsible for ensuring security requirements, principles, and controls are embedded into the Buyer's enterprise architecture, technology investments, and digital transformation initiatives. Providing strategic security architecture leadership, ensuring technology solutions are secure by design, aligned to enterprise objectives, and compliant with government security obligations Working closely with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Cyber Security teams, other security architects, and project delivery teams to develop target-state security architectures, security standards, and architectural roadmaps that enable secure and resilient business outcomes Ensuring security is integrated into enterprise architecture and technology decision-making from the outset, rather than being applied as a compliance activity after solutions are designed Instructions to Tenderers The Department of Finance will not consider or invite additional sellers to this RFQ. Unsolicited emails and requests will not be answered.