Job Description

• Application Transformation Project with a Fortune 200 company
• High visibility and Accountability role
• Fantastic Work Environment – long term opportunity

Our client is a fortune 200 American company with presence in over 57 countries and with over 48,000 staff worldwide. However, the culture of entrepreneurial ship and shared responsibility is the most attractive benefit of working with this company.

If you are someone who likes ownership and a challenge but for whom culture is really important then this will be great role and place to consider.

Role’s Primary Purpose:

You'll collaborate with technical leaders and stakeholders on solution-level decisions and analysis of their impact on overall business goals and outcomes.

The Solutions Architect position is a hands-on technical position with a primary focus being effective translation of business requirements into technical solutions. You must love technology to get hand on if required but your strength must be conversing with business and converting the business requirements to technical solution.

Moreover, we are looking for someone who can not only design the solution but someone who can hand guide the team on how to implement the designed solution. If you are someone who can design but not guide the team about how to implement the solution then this is not the right role for you.

Breaking the role’s Primary Purpose / responsibilities further, you will be accountable for the following:

1. Product Management

• Define and develop technology solutions, plans, roadmaps and timelines to assist the business in meeting their objectives.
• Provide guidance to the development teams on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.

2. Requirements, Technology & Product Vision Management

• Understands customer's requirements, current/future IT infrastructure, application framework, business opportunities and vision to guide the architecture; owns the architecture and works with development staff on project/feature implementation
• Assists in problem solving, resolving design disputes, and making tradeoffs
• Creates a vision and plan for evolutionary paths and development roadmaps; plans for new technology insertions

3. Product Development Management

• Participate in Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Retrospectives and Backlog Grooming to effectively communicate with team members and stakeholders
• Serve as a subject matter expert for architectural frameworks, methods and tools; educates software development staff in architecture disciplines and assists in their application
• Participate in peer review sessions of solutions and related code, ensure software quality throughout the complete SDLC
• Relationships with the software support and product management team members to ensure quality outcomes.

Qualifications, skills & experience:

• Experience with legacy systems and complex technical environments using multiple technologies and languages.
• Proven experience establishing and maintaining architectural standards and principles
• Experience designing and implementing service-oriented and evolutionary architectures
• Strong understanding of Agile/Lean development methodologies
• Solid foundation of architecture models, database platforms and modern infrastructure topologies
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to communicate at a technical, business, or executive level
• Ability to understand business objectives and translate into architectural deliverables
• Thorough knowledge of data, infrastructure and programming concepts
• Experience in multi-platform infrastructure distributed environments
• Advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other departments to achieve complex business needs
• Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in Computer Science or Engineering related fields.
• Few years of experience as a Senior Software Developer, atleast 2-4+ years’ experience designing whole solutions or sets of related solutions
• Ability to adapt to other working styles, organize, lead, and influence others
• Ability to adapt in a dynamic work environment
• Ability to work individually or in a team environment
• Strong conceptual, analytical and decision-making skills
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build productive cross-departmental relationships and motivate team members
• Well-versed in object-oriented and functional design paradigms
• Source code analysis and development tools used in the Windows environment; i.e.  Visual C++, C#, VB.net, VB6, Fortran, MFC, Bamboo, GIT, Install Shield, OOA/D, SQL, and Win 32 GUI.
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable in a changing environment.
• Friendly, positive and customer focussed personality.

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of ALM/Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools and technologies
• Strong understanding of Construction/Building industry

What is on offer

• Good salary & culture
• Permanent position
• Excellent culture & work environment
• Opportunity to work with Fortune 200 company
• Loads of other Benefits  

How to apply

• If you on our website, apply below
• If you are NOT on our website, please apply on the link: https://portal.appetencyrecruitment.com.au/5c29ffa2/information-technology-jobs/solutions-architect-moorabbin.php

Other titles for this role in other organisation might be: Solutions Architect, Software Solutions Architect, Senior Software Engineer, Software Product Transformation Consultant, Architecture Re-design, Applications Architect