Job Title: Senior Enterprise Architect

This role is a full-time opportunity to join the Local Peoples team permanently, with your first project supporting the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) Indigo Tranche 2 Transformation Program. Local Peoples is a preferred partner for the Australian Federal Governments Department of Health and Aged Care’s Human Centred Design (HCD) Centre of Excellence (CoE). Beyond this project, you would be contributing to impactful co-design projects that improve services, policies, and products for communities across Australia.

About the first project:

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to support the Indigo Tranche 2 Transformation Program. The role will work closely with service designers, business analysts, program architects, ICT teams, and senior stakeholders to design and assure enterprise solutions that align with strategic objectives.

This position requires strong expertise in enterprise architecture, Agile project delivery, and ICT transformation within complex government environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with AEC Enterprise Architecture, service design teams, solution managers, and technical delivery teams to:

  • Develop conceptual solution designs and solution delivery roadmaps.

  • Define program epics and features for Agile delivery.

• Secure endorsement for proposed solutions from AEC Architecture Board, Technical Advisory Group, and Cyber Security.

• Work directly within Agile delivery teams to translate service design outcomes into deliverable ICT components.

• Ensure integrity and alignment across application, data, technology, and solution architectures.

• Contribute to technical documentation and procurement evaluation activities.

• Develop and maintain key stakeholder relationships, including senior executives, to influence and drive alignment.

• Represent and present architectural views across governance forums.

• Perform additional duties as directed by APS management.
  
  

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrated experience in:

  • Agile project delivery frameworks and managing ICT change in Agile environments.

  • Enterprise Architecture in a complex ICT environment, ensuring alignment with organisational constraints.

  • Working with Program Managers and Product Owners to manage competing requirements.

  • ITIL processes and structures.

• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence senior executives.

• Proven track record in delivering enterprise solutions that meet business and ICT requirements.
  
  

Desirable Criteria

• Experience producing innovative Enterprise Architectures (both current and future state).

• Ability to translate technical concepts into business language and vice versa.
  
  

Working Arrangements

• Hybrid work model, primarily based in Canberra, ACT.

• Initial contract until 30 June 2026, with a 12-month extension option.

• Up to 40 hours per week.

Who are Local Peoples?

Local Peoples is a strategic research and design studio based in Melbourne and Canberra.

Our mission is to design healthy, resilient and resourceful communities. We are proud to be a certified B-Corporation with a strong focus on our social, environmental and economic impact.

We work across brand and digital design, place and experience design,, content and community engagement. Our key partners include state and local government, social enterprises, universities and large commercial organisations. All are experiencing complex challenges right now and we believe that design research, thinking and delivery can help to solve these challenges and make positive change for people and the planet.

We produce www.mattersjournal.com, a publication and community of 100K+, which focuses on design-led social innovation and impact.

Why join Local Peoples?

• Representative and inclusive - we are dedicated to building an inclusive and accessible workplace for people from diverse backgrounds

• Impact driven - work towards achieving real impact for people and the environment

• Fantastic culture - driven by a welcoming, supportive and collaborative team environment

• Professional support for design excellence- benefit from being a part of one of Australia’s fastest growing design and delivery communities

• Flexible working arrangements - including the ability to work remotely

• Market rate salaries - attractive remuneration packages in line with the market rate

• Flexible employment types - including the preference for permanent, but will consider contracting

Local Peoples proudly supports the LGBTQ+ community, neurodiverse individuals, and First Nations people. We are committed to creating inclusive spaces where everyone, regardless of their identity, feels valued and respected. Together, we strive for equality and a positive future for all.

Local Peoples works, creates, and plays on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Bunurong, and Wathaurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, land which has never been ceded. We thank them for caring for this land for over 40,000 years and recognize and pay our deepest respect to Elders past, present, and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land