Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $142,790 - $191,084
Grade: VPS 6
Occupation: IT and telecommunications
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: VG/DE/FPIS/1956748
Corporate Digital Services (CDS) Branch
Corporate Digital Services (CDS) is responsible for enabling effective operation and transformation of the department through the delivery and management of corporate digital products, platforms and services. The branch partners with corporate business areas and portfolio entities to understand business needs, shape digital solutions and deliver connected, reliable and secure technology experiences for employees.
CDS provides strategic leadership across corporate technology, including enterprise business systems, business applications, digital workplace technologies and employee-facing platforms. It brings together business product management, enterprise architecture, demand and portfolio management to ensure technology investment is aligned with business priorities, delivers value and supports continuous improvement.
The branch is focused on strengthening the employee experience, improving business processes, enabling collaboration and productivity, and ensuring corporate technology is sustainable, well-governed and fit for the future. Through strong partnerships with business stakeholders, technology providers and other areas of the department, CDS enables better ways of working and contributes to improved outcomes for Victorian students.
Key platforms and applications include; Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Brief Connect, Canvas LMS, Atlassian, Lucid and Grammarly.
The Opportunity
The Solution Architect is responsible for shaping and designing end-to-end technology solutions in response to new business demand across the Department.
Working with Product Managers, business stakeholders, Platform Managers, Platform Architects and technology delivery partners, the role translates business needs into conceptual solution designs, evaluates options, assesses complexity and provides indicative effort estimates to inform investment and delivery decisions.
The role ensures solutions are technically sound, align with enterprise architecture and technology standards, and integrate effectively across the Department's technology ecosystem. It brings together the relevant technology teams and suppliers to ensure individual components form a cohesive, sustainable end-to-end solution.
The role will work across the department's enterprise platforms and associated corporate applications, including:
The role requires a broad understanding of these platforms and how they work together, ensuring new solutions are integrated, aligned with technology standards and deliver cohesive end-to-end business outcomes.
What you'll do
Solution design and demand shaping
Enterprise integration and architecture
Technical coordination and assurance
Stakeholder engagement
Key skills and capabilities
About You
Qualifications and experience
Essential
Desirable
Why join us?
Join Corporate Digital Services and help shape technology solutions that make a real difference across the Department of Education. You will work across a diverse enterprise technology environment, solving complex business challenges, shaping new demand and bringing together business and technology teams to design integrated solutions. This is an opportunity to influence technology direction, work with talented specialists and help deliver better experiences for the people who support Victorian schools and students.
If you want to make a genuine difference at enterprise scale, we'd love to hear from you.
For more details regarding this position please see attached position descriptions.
The Department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page
Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person
Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au.
Applications close on 11:59pm 23 November 2026.