Reporting to the Digital Lead, you will lead the design and delivery of end-to-end infrastructure solution architectures supporting major health capital works in Cairns. You will provide expert architectural leadership across complex, multi-stream projects, ensuring scalable, integrated digital solutions that enable clinical and operational outcomes. You will work closely with stakeholders, infrastructure partners, and system integrators to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions across a rapidly expanding portfolio, while strengthening resilience and reducing delivery risk across the program.

Job details

The role:  

Queensland Health is currently undertaking one of the largest health infrastructure programs ever seen in Australia. The largest of these, the Hospital Rescue Plan (HRP) is a visionary program designed to bring service and capabilities to more Queenslanders than ever before. The HRP will deliver 3 new hospitals, a new Queensland Cancer Centre, and the expansion of 11 existing hospitals resulting in 2,600 additional beds across Queensland, including the expansion of Cairns Hospital and the development of future campus-wide infrastructure under the Cairns Hospital Campus Master Plan.

As a Solution Architect (Infrastructure), you will provide technical leadership across multiple concurrent initiatives, including refurbishment works, new service implementations, and future expansion planning. You will play a key role in ensuring ICT infrastructure is designed, integrated, and aligned with evolving clinical and facility requirements. You will be working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, supported by a wide array of multi-disciplinary teams and will need to operate effectively in times of ambiguity.

This role has a strong focus on core infrastructure and systems integration, including:

• Core facility infrastructure (communications rooms, structured cabling, antenna systems)
• Wired and wireless networks and external connectivity
• Telephony and messaging platforms
• End user computing environments
• Server and storage platforms
• Audio visual and collaboration technologies
• Clinical and facility systems (e.g. nurse call, patient systems, digital wayfinding)
• Engineering and building systems integration (e.g. security, access control, BMS)

You will work closely with system integrators, project teams, and stakeholders to ensure infrastructure solutions are scalable, sustainable, and aligned to both current project needs and future campus expansion.

This role is critical to supporting the increasing scale and complexity of digital delivery across Cairns infrastructure projects. With multiple concurrent initiatives—including the Cairns Hospital Expansion Project, the Cairns Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Service, and emerging Master Plan works—there is a growing demand for dedicated solution architecture capability.

You will help mitigate delivery risk, reduce single points of dependency, and ensure infrastructure solutions are well-integrated, future-ready, and aligned to Queensland Health standards.

Are you right for this role?

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Proven experience delivering infrastructure solution architecture across complex, large-scale environments
• Strong expertise in systems integration across multiple infrastructure domains
• Experience working on capital infrastructure, health, or construction-related projects (highly desirable)
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple projects and stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including working with senior executives, vendors, and delivery partners
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into simple language, and ideally contextualised to a clinical environment
• Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate architectural risks in high-pressure delivery environments

This is a unique opportunity to shape the digital foundations of one of Queensland's most significant regional health expansions.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity submit your CV or resume and a short statement (maximum 2 pages) addressing your experience in each of the key areas outlined above.

While initially aligned to Cairns projects, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to other major health infrastructure initiatives across Queensland as program needs evolve.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applications will remain current for a period of up to 12 months and may be considered for other vacancies which may include an alternative employment basis such as temporary, full time or part time.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Solution Architect RD (PDF)
  
  DoH Applicant Pack (PDF)