As a Solution Architect, you will be accountable for:

• Taking responsibility for Design and Architecture and adherence to our client's wide Vision and Enterprise Architecture standards and blueprints
• Providing architecture and design leadership and guidance (working with analysts, designers, other architects, and developers) in achieving project outcomes that align with whole of our client's strategy and direction
• Producing solution designs, integration designs and associated functional specifications
• Implementing operational solutions based on the EA target reference architecture and the client's Technology Principles
• Scoping and designing the overarching solution design in conjunction with Subject Matter Experts, Project Managers and other Architects
• Developing proposals and business cases
• Liaising with stakeholders as needed to understand client and customer needs in a rapidly evolving environment
• Ensuring that recommended architectural and technology solutions satisfy current and future business needs, ensuring effective, secure, scalable, convergent, flexible and manageable solutions of high standards
• Ensuring that recommended architectural solutions are convergent to take advantage of internal and external needs along with a broad range of service needs
• Contributing to the quality of technical solutions developed by other Solution Architects
• Contributing to estimating resource and capacity requirements for the application solution
• Providing expertise to assist with high priority production and deployment issues
• Contributing to the operations and improvement of the client's Architecture Governance process, including leading discussions at Architecture Boards to seek endorsement or direction on key architecture decisions
• Supporting the operations of the Solution Architecture team, including BAU activities
• Contributing and maintaining an architecture repository in an Enterprise Architecture tool

Qualifications and experience:

• TOGAF certification highly desirable
• ArchiMate certification desirable
• Bachelor's degree or higher in information technology, computer science or related discipline
• Extensive experience in a similar Solution Architect role

Knowledge and Technical Skills:

• Extensive experience in designing end-to-end solution architectures aligned with enterprise target reference architecture and enterprise principles
• Experience developing architecture blueprints and technology roadmaps
• Proven experience in providing leadership and guidance across the domains of application architecture and integration
• Proven experience in one or more of the following: APIs and integration, digital experience and portal technologies, case management and workflows, low-code application platforms, digital identity and access management
• Proficiency in the client's primary technology platforms: Boomi, Dynamics 365 CRM, OutSystems, .NET, SharePoint, Optimizely, Databricks, Azure and AWS Integration in a secured environment
• Knowledge of the client's legacy technology platforms: Adabas / Natural Mainframe, Lotus Notes, Siebel, Java, Oracle Service Bus
• Experience in delivering Digital Experience projects and technologies, including Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) desirable
• Experience architecting solutions in multi-cloud environments (M365, Azure and AWS)
• Experience in Agile delivery methodology and DTA's Digital Service Standards, service design and delivery process desirable

Business Acumen:

• Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills
• Excellent business writing and verbal communication skills to establish and develop effective client relationships
• Works well with Enterprise Architecture, Design and Analysis, Service Delivery and Project teams
• Shows resilience, pursuing challenging situations with drive to achieve specified goals
• Problem solving, analytical and critical thinking skills for investigating and resolving stakeholder, client or system concerns, and for improving work practices and processes
• Issue ownership through to resolution.

Darragh Devane
Senior Consultant, NSW/QLD

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