• Leads the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements;
• Establishes policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components;
• Manages trade-offs and balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation;
• Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders;
• Coordinates and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives;
• Maintains a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.

Requirements definition and management:

• Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives;
• Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques;
• Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards for requirements management;
• Obtains input from, and agreement to requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders;
• Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts;
• Establishes requirements baselines;
• Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.

Systems development management:

• Sets policy and drives adherence to standards for systems development;
• Leads activities to make security and privacy integral to systems development;
• Identifies and manages the resources necessary for all stages of systems development projects;
• Ensures that technical, financial and quality targets are met.

Network design:

• Produces, or approves network providers', network architectures, topologies and configuration databases for own area of responsibility;
• Specifies design parameters for network connectivity, capacity, speed, interfacing, security and access, in line with business requirements;
• Assesses network-related risks and specifies recovery routines and contingency procedures;
• Creates multiple design views to address the different stakeholders' concerns and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.