Davidson Technology have teamed up with a Victorian Governance Organisation to help them find their next Solution Architect.

This is a 12-month initial contract, Melbourne based working a hybrid style.

Key Responsibilities.

• Solution Architecture - Produce Solution Architecture Documents (SAD) outlining architecture and integration across Energy Markets, Trading and Corporate Systems
• Security - Collaborate with security architecture to ensure solutions are aligned to organisations security standards and policies.
• Technology Governance - Ensure solution designs are aligned to organisations architectural principals and standards and present solutions to design governance bodies.
• Partnering and co-creation - Work alongside key business and technology stakeholders to capture future business needs and enable solution identification. Identify and partner with users/stakeholders/experts to ensure active collaboration in the design process to understand user needs, obtain ideas, insights and input.
• Technology Roadmap - Perform technology and product research to identify opportunities that impact business strategy, business requirements and performance and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Experiences and Skills:

• Knowledge of data architectures, compute, network, cloud, and virtualization, with an emphasis on SaaS applications and Azure technologies.

• An innovative mindset that ensures consideration of all alternative options and the development of creative solutions.

• Experience establishing and shaping a 'fit for purpose' architecture framework within small/medium organization.

• A strong team player who demonstrates flexibility, pro-activeness and required soft skills to align technology to business objectives.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, a proactive approach and ability to thrive in a fast-paced and changing environment.

• Influence and Persuasion: ability to gain agreement to proposals & ideas; build behind the scenes support for ideas to ensure buy-in & ownership; use chains of indirect influence to achieve outcomes; Involve experts or other third parties to strengthen case.

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
• Extensive technical breadth gained via experience across multiple architecture disciplines, including business, application, infrastructure and information/data disciplines.
• Implementation of Data Modelling and/or Data Visualization applications.
• Experience in an architecture role within the Energy/Utilities industry (Desirable)
• Azure or AWS Software Certification Program (Desirable)
• TOGAF 9 Certification Program (Desirable)

Please apply by upload your current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you would like to have a confidential discussion, please contact David Chisholm on 03 9929 9500, quoting reference JN -022025-39542. Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com