• Senior Solutions Architect - Azure I Application I Software I Cyber Security I Network
• 12 to 18 months initial contract
• 2 days onsite / 3 days WFH
• $1200 to $1250 p/d

Role

My client is looking for a Senior Solution Architect to support the management and delivery of technology solutions within its business systems/applications and Cyber Security landscape. The role will work with an Enterprise Architect, project managers and external systems vendors. These solutions may be project-specific as well as supporting enterprise-wide IT-enabled business changes.

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 10+ years demonstrated experience as a Solution Architect in enterprise organisations, successfully designing and implementing business solutions within complex, enterprise IT environments.
• Experience with application solutions involving integration across internal, custom-built software components and as "as a service" or COTS components, where strong vendor management skills are required to ensure a robust end-to-end solution.
• Strong experience with Azure (certified).
• Experience delivering application solutions with a significant custom component, using a Microsoft .net and SQL Server or Oracle technology stack.
• Demonstrated ability to produce design artefacts to support conceptual designs that are appropriately detailed while being business-readable.
• Experience with and an understanding of TOGAF.
• Good understanding of security and network-level architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of end-to-end solution architectures and designs across multiple applications and technology components, which may be delivered by multiple internal and external teams, to ensure overall alignment.
• Create architecture deliverables required to support new business requirements and the ongoing improvement of business systems.
• Influence and negotiate with key stakeholders to ensure solution alignment with business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions so that projects do not prioritise short-term needs without having due regard to longer-term objectives and the accumulation of excessive technical debt.
• Critically assess business requirements, artefacts provided by external technology vendors and other project inputs, escalating proactively to the Enterprise Architect, Director Business Systems, Project Owners, Project Managers, any gaps or risks that will impact adversely on the quality of systems architectures and designs for assigned projects.
• Review, interpret and guide detailed designs to ensure alignment across project requirements and IT capabilities, both current and future.
• Support the Enterprise Architect to build and improve common principles and standards applicable to business, application, data, technology and security architecture domains.
• This person will be part of the architecture advisory team.

To apply online, please click the 'Apply' button below. For a confidential discussion about this role please contact Tito Tealdo at [email protected] or 0434418729