IT Solutions Architect - Contract

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At Centorrino Technologies (CT), we’re more than just tech—we’re a community that goes beyond expectations. We’ve been recognised as a Great Place to Work in 2024-2025 and one of the Best Places to Work Medium & Large Size in Australia for 2025, with an outstanding eNPS score of 68. And we’re not stopping there. We're on a mission to redefine the customer experience, and we need a passionate IT Solutions Architect to join our Staff Augmentation team in Hobart or Melbourne.

This is a 5 month contract role.

The Contract IT Solutions Architect will provide enterprise infrastructure and cyber-resilience architecture leadership across multiple critical initiatives. The role is responsible for guiding and governing solution architectures to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory obligations and future-state capability, with a strong focus on backup and recovery, cyber resilience, VDI modernisation and end-user compute security hardening. The role will work closely with infrastructure, security, procurement and executive stakeholders to deliver technically sound, commercially viable and operationally sustainable solutions.

What you'll do:

• Guide and govern solution architectures to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and broader architectural impacts
• Define current and future-state enterprise backup, recovery and cyber-resilience architectures
• Lead requirements-gathering workshops and stakeholder interviews, translating business needs into target architectures
• Conduct architecture and design reviews to validate vendor solutions against standards, requirements and resilience patterns
• Perform technical and commercial assessments of vendor proposals, including licence models, support arrangements and cost benchmarking
• Provide clear recommendations balancing architectural fit, cost, risk and strategic alignment
• Develop service definitions, operating models and future-state documentation
• Perform fit-gap assessments to support solution selection and change management
• Produce high-quality, executive-ready architecture documentation and decision papers
• Lead and contribute to detailed solution design activities, including OS hardening and EUC architecture uplift
• Develop integrated solutions across existing and new systems as required
• Engage effectively with infrastructure, security, procurement and executive stakeholders
• Provide architecture governance oversight of vendor-delivered solution designs
• Support enterprise initiatives including CyberVault and Backup, VDI modernisation and OS Hardening projects
• Provide architecture support to additional IT initiatives as required

What you'll bring:

• Strong infrastructure-focused IT Solutions Architecture experience across compute, storage, cloud, networking and security
• Proven delivery of enterprise backup, recovery and cyber-resilient architectures
• Hands-on experience with enterprise backup platforms (e.g. Veeam, Dell PowerProtect, Commvault, HPE or similar)
• Experience designing immutable storage, isolated recovery and CyberVault-style solutions
• Proven capability conducting architecture and design reviews of vendor solutions
• Strong commercial assessment skills across licensing, vendor proposals and cost benchmarking
• Ability to translate business and operational requirements into target architectures
• Solid understanding of RTO/RPO requirements and recovery planning
• Experience supporting multi-hypervisor and hybrid cloud/on-prem environments
• Knowledge of ransomware-resistant design patterns and Tier 0/1 system protection
• Understanding of enterprise governance, risk and cyber-resilience compliance obligations
• Knowledge of Essential Eight (E8), AESCSF and related frameworks
• Experience designing EUC and OS hardening solutions using SCCM, Intune, Group Policy, Microsoft Defender and CIS Benchmarks
• Strong stakeholder engagement and executive-level communication skills
• 5–10 years’ experience delivering enterprise infrastructure and solution architectures

Why You'll Love Working Here:

Our company is more than just a workplace, it's a hub of inspiration and creativity where employees love to work! Here's why:

• Hybrid working (for majority of our roles) with team anchor days to support collaboration.
• Extensive training and development opportunities that enable continual growth as part of your career planning.
• Extensive discounts and benefits to maximise your money.
• A choice of your IT equipment to maximise your success and access to cost-price tech for your personal needs.
• Fun team events to celebrate achievements and connect with colleagues outside work as part of our engaging culture.

CT celebrates diversity and enables every voice to be heard as we drive to create the world we want. Apply today and be part of a team that values innovation, inclusivity, variety and diverse backgrounds.

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