Platform Architect – Dynamics 365 and Azure
- Brisbane, QLD
- Contract
- Full-time
Contract: Initial contract through 30th June 2026 with possible extension
Location: Brisbane CBD, hybrid working arrangementsJob SummaryOur client, a leading Queensland Government agency, is seeking an experienced Platform Architect to support a major customer-facing program. The Information Services team plays a critical role in delivering IT infrastructure, platform support, and digital solutions across various departmental business units.
As part of their digital transformation journey, Information Services is aligning its ICT capabilities to support the expansion of digital services to Queenslanders. This includes adopting modern practices that emphasise security, scalability, cost-effectiveness and future growth.
The agency’s client and case management platform is built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Customer Service), Dynamics Portals, Azure-based integration services, and a suite of supporting technologies. The system serves both internal staff and external users and features numerous integrations.
In this role, the Application Platform Architect will be responsible for ensuring the platform can evolve securely and efficiently. The focus will be on enabling continuous improvement and scalability to meet current and emerging business needs.Key responsibilities
- Developing and maintaining the technical roadmap for Dynamics 365 solutions, including integrations with other systems and Azure services in alignment with business objectives.
- Providing technical expertise and advice to key business and executive stakeholders and guidance to implementation and support teams, ensuring successful implementation and adoption of solutions.
- Review standards, guidelines and best practices for platform use and integration
- Maintaining and improving the performance, scalability, governance and reliability of Dynamics 365 and Azure environments ensuring they support current and future business needs.
- A flexible, pragmatic, team oriented, customer focused approach to the development, consultation and implementation of solution architectures
- Work with application teams, infrastructure teams, DevOps, security and product owners to ensure platform alignment and integration.
- Experience developing architectures and supporting delivery of cloud hosted and on-premise services, with the constraints of configurable-off-the-shelf (COTS) application platforms (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics 365), in an enterprise environment
- Ability to contribute to strategies, plans and implementations of the rollout of enterprise solutions to departmental users
- Provide architecture assurance and design reviews for platform-dependent solutions
- Ability to translate functional and non-functional requirements into solution component architectures suitable for implementation
- Integration practices including API, batch and messaging solution architectures
- Data management practices including data modelling, data schemas, reference data management, data mapping and data migration
- Strong understanding of information security and information privacy practices
- Understanding of enterprise and solution architecture practises including business analysis practises within an agile environment
- High level of verbal communication and documentation skills
- Ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary team and with third-party suppliers.
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE) methodology experience and/or accreditation desirable
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