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Solution Architect

Employer
Downer EDI Limited
Location
North Ryde, Australia
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Oct 28, 2021

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Category
Trade & Skilled
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English
Solution Architect
Apply now Job ID: 579751
Job type: Full Time - Permanent
Location: North Ryde
Categories: Information Technology

Who we are
Downer is the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand. Through trusted relationships and world leading insight we work closely with our customers to design, build and sustain assets, infrastructure and facilities.
Position summary
We are currently looking to recruit an experienced Solution Architect to work within the Architecture team across our Business Applications. As a part of the IT Strategy and Business Engagement function you will be responsible for overall solution design to identify effective technology solutions and showcase IT as a business enabler.

This is a permanent role and is ideally suited to someone with a mixture of Business Applications and Infrastructure experience, looking to progress their career within a large enterprise environment. This role offers the opportunity to work on a range of small to transformational projects.

Responsibilities
  • Defining End to End Architecture solutions aligned to technology standards and roadmaps and strategies in response to business requirements.
  • Leading the governance of the overall solution architecture during the design, build and test phases of the project to ensure alignment to the endorsed solutions and architecture principles.
  • Collaboration with business and technology stakeholders during the definition of solutions and evaluation of solution options .
  • Assisting Security Analysis with the assessment of business and technological impacts of proposed IT solutions.
  • Governance, oversight and review of solution strategies, solutions architectures and detailed designs over entire lifecycle of project, including participation in appropriate governance boards
  • Actively guiding and advising projects with technical leadership and architectural expertise
  • Work with IT Strategy team and service providers to support the development of IT policies, guidelines, standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
  • Collaboration with the architecture community and technical delivery teams to drive towards common architectures and standards.
  • Documentation and modelling of the company's existing and future systems architecture and technology portfolio, using industry standard modelling ArchiMate notation.
  • Research, evaluation and assessment of technology trends, market influences, industry frameworks, best practices and available technology solutions and their potential impact/ opportunity for Downer.
  • Facilitate trials of potential new technologies.

ABOUT YOU:
  • 10+ years' experience within Information Technology industry;
  • 5+ years of experience on complex projects as a Solution Architect.
  • Demonstrable track record in leading architecture, design, development or deployment of a wide range of IT solutions with a focus on Business Applications
  • Experience delivering infrastructure based architecture solutions in complex project environments including cloud based technologies.
  • Knowledge and understanding of industry trends and technology
  • Demonstrated solution design experience across at least 2 of the following domain areas:
    • Enterprise resource planning and financial systems
    • Payroll systems
    • Time capture systems
    • Work management systems
    • Inventory and supply chain systems
    • HR systems

Desirable:
  • Tertiary qualification in Technology discipline or related field.
  • Experience in the Engineering and Construction or other Heavy Industry sector.
  • Demonstrable experience working in a complex Enterprise environments comprising internal and external service providers.
  • Broad range of experience in solution design across applications and infrastructure domains.
  • Experience with the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Framework and ArchiMate notation

For more information, please contact Susie Cooper at susie.cooper@downergroup.com . Please do not send applications to this email address as it will not be accepted.

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