Position: Information Architect
Location ACT (Canberra) — Hybrid, 2 days onsite per week; interstate candidates onsite for quarterly PI Planning
Security clearance - Must be able to obtain Baseline
Experience: 10+ yrs

About the role

An Information Architect is required to support a Change Program for a Federal Government agency. The role is responsible for designing, structuring and governing business information assets to align with business needs and strategic objectives — ensuring information assets are consistently structured, classified, governed and integrated across business systems and services.

The Information Architect will design, document and govern information architectures that support business capabilities, service delivery and enterprise information management objectives. The role works closely with business and technical stakeholders to understand information requirements, develop information models and structures, define metadata and taxonomy frameworks, support information governance initiatives, and ensure information assets are aligned with enterprise and data architecture strategies. The contractor will contribute to Agile delivery practices, maintain work items in Azure DevOps, support governance activities, and provide knowledge transfer to build internal capability.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Design and document information architectures that support business capabilities and service delivery
• Run stakeholder engagement and information discovery workshops
• Assess the current-state information landscape, including existing assets, repositories and structures
• Analyse information flows, dependencies and governance requirements
• Develop information models, taxonomies and metadata structures
• Establish information classification and content structures
• Document integration and interoperability requirements
• Develop information governance recommendations and standards
• Ensure alignment with enterprise, data and solution architecture strategies
• Deliver stakeholder briefings, governance presentations and knowledge transfer materials
• Contribute to Agile delivery practices and maintain work items in Azure DevOps
  

Delivery milestones

1. Information discovery and assessment

Stakeholder workshops, current-state information landscape assessment, documentation of existing information assets and structures, and identification of information management risks and opportunities. Outcome: an agreed understanding of the existing information environment and requirements.

2. Information architecture design

Development of the information architecture framework, information models, taxonomies and metadata structures, classification and content structures, and integration requirements, plus governance recommendations. Outcome: a future-state information architecture aligned with business, data and enterprise architecture objectives.

3. Governance and implementation support

Finalisation of information architecture artefacts and governance documentation, stakeholder briefings, knowledge transfer and handover materials, and support for implementation and adoption. Outcome: an approved, sustainable information architecture backed by governance and stakeholder buy-in.

Required capabilities

Information architecture expertise

Proven experience designing, implementing and governing enterprise information architectures, information models, taxonomies, metadata frameworks and content structures.

Information management and governance

Demonstrated experience developing information management standards, governance frameworks, classification schemes and practices that improve information quality, accessibility, compliance and usability.

Stakeholder engagement and facilitation

Demonstrated ability to engage, influence and collaborate with business and technical stakeholders at all levels, including senior executives, architects and governance forums.

Information modelling and design

Experience designing logical and conceptual information models, classifications, metadata standards, taxonomies and structures that support discoverability, reuse and interoperability.

Enterprise integration and architecture alignment

Experience ensuring information architecture aligns with enterprise, data, solution and business architecture practices while supporting integration across systems and services.

Communication and documentation

Strong ability to produce high-quality information architecture artefacts, governance documentation, briefing papers, standards, roadmaps and executive presentations.

Regulatory, security and privacy knowledge

Understanding of information management obligations relating to privacy, records management, security classifications, information governance and regulatory compliance.

Agile delivery and governance experience

Experience working in Agile delivery environments, using tools such as Azure DevOps, and ensuring alignment with enterprise governance and architecture standards.