Principal Systems Architect

• Enjoy the opportunity to work in lean dynamic and dedicated team, collaborative and dynamic learning environment 
• Excellent work/life balance

About the Role

The Principal Systems Architect is responsible for providing expert technical leadership in the design and optimisation of the organisation’s technology ecosystem, ensuring that systems are integrated, resilient, and scalable. This position ensures that technology investments deliver long-term value, minimise technical debt, and remain compliant with NSW Government digital standards.

This role will suit a senior enterprise architect who has led end-to-end digital transformation initiatives within complex enterprise environments and is motivated by delivering long-term strategic outcomes rather than short-term project engagements.

You will play a critical leadership role in shaping and delivering a future-state architecture across a hybrid on-premise and cloud environment, with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure. The role requires deep experience designing integrated ecosystems that support multiple mission-critical applications, ensuring interoperability, security, performance, and scalability.

Working within a lean but high-performing Technology Assurance function, you will influence architectural direction across large-scale digital programs that underpin high-profile, immovable election events. You will provide strategic oversight across business, application, data, technology and security domains, balancing immediate delivery requirements with long-term architectural integrity.

This is a Temporary full-time position up to 30 June 2027, with potential to be extended.

About the NSW Electoral Commission

The New South Wales Electoral Commission delivers trusted and independent systems, processes, oversight and engagement that support democracy in New South Wales. Our vision is to maintain confidence in the integrity of the democratic process and make it easy for people to understand and participate.

Our work includes:

• Running and regulating elections
• Communicating and engaging with current and future voters, key NSW community stakeholders and NSW election participants; and
• Investigating possible offences and enforcing electoral and lobbying laws such as the Electoral Act 2017 and the Electoral Funding Act 2018.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work on large scale events and assist your local community  
• Career development opportunities through study and face to face training
• Access to self-paced expert-led training via LinkedIn Learning
• Employee Assistance Program for wellbeing support 
• Staff social events to connect with colleagues  
• Work/Life balance (35 hour working week), flex leave
• Access to Fitness Passport for eligible staff 
• Free annual flu vaccination
• Convenient CBD location, access to public transport

Key knowledge, experience and essential requirements:

• Extensive experience in senior systems architecture roles within complex enterprise environments, including significant experience in cloud and hybrid environments, with strong Azure capability.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives and developing target-state architecture roadmaps.
• Demonstrated experience designing integrated ecosystems across multiple critical business applications, including complex integrations between bespoke systems and third-party platforms.
• Extensive knowledge and practical application of security-by-design principles, enterprise risk management, and compliance with NSW Government Cyber Security and Digital standards.
• Strong capability in balancing architectural governance with delivery pragmatism, particularly in environments with fixed regulatory or operational deadlines.
• Politically neutral with no affiliation to political parties or lobbyists/campaigners.
• Satisfactory Criminal Record check result.

How to apply

As part of your application, you will be asked to respond to the two targeted questions:

1. Provide details of the most complex architecture work you have done, outlining its impact on the critical business outcome (maximum 300 words)
2. Provide details of your contribution to the adoption of governance practice to systems architecture (maximum 300 words) 

To apply, please include a cover letter addressing the essential requirements with relevant examples from your experience, along with an up-to-date resume. 

For further information regarding the role please download the Role Description.

To apply, or for additional information, please contact Henry Brosius at henry.brosius@clicks.com.au

Applying for a role in the NSW Public Service

For more information on how to apply for a role in the NSW Public Service, please refer here.

The NSW Electoral Commission embraces diversity and inclusion and is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the population of New South Wales. We welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds and encourage women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+, people with disability, mature-age people, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this role. 

If you have any questions about applying or would benefit from an adjustment to the recruitment process to help you perform your best please contact talent@elections.nsw.gov.au. For more information on recruitment adjustments visit I Work for NSW Adjustments for individual needs.

Applications received and completed after closing time will not be considered for selection. 

The selection process will include a range of assessment techniques to assist in determining your suitability for the role.

For further information, contact NSW Electoral Commission’s Talent team on talent@elections.nsw.gov.au.

Other Information

Your employment will be subject to National Criminal Records Check to determine your suitability for employment. 

The NSW Electoral Commission is committed to maintaining public confidence in the integrity of the electoral system. The Commission requires all its employees to refrain from membership of any political party and from engaging in political activity which could be seen as reflecting adversely on the strict political neutrality of the Commission. To maintain political neutrality, applicants for roles with the Commission who are, who have been or who may be perceived to be or have been connected with political activities may also be ineligible for appointment and should disclose such information as part of their application. This does not include voting in a Commonwealth, State or Local Government election, which is compulsory in NSW.  The Commission’s Political Neutrality Policy may be viewed on its website.

A talent pool may be created from this recruitment action for ongoing and temporary roles of the same work classification that may become available for filling over the next 18 months.

This role is based in at our Elizabeth Street, Sydney office with a hybrid work arrangement.

Applications Close: Sunday 1st March 2026 @ 11.59pm