Key Role Summary:
This highly skilled Solutions Architect role is a key contributor to our organizational success. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing end-to-end architectures that align with our business strategy.
Main Responsibilities:
* Develop scalable, secure, and fit-for-purpose solutions across various domains, including Hire to Retire, Time & Attendance, Rostering, Staff Communication, and Safety & Wellbeing.
* Translate complex business requirements into clear architectural models, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions meet both operational and employee experience objectives.
Architectural Governance & Standards:
* Maintain and uplift architectural standards, reference architectures, and solution design templates for corporate applications and platforms.
* Ensure consistency, quality, security, and reusability across solutions leveraging platforms such as SAP SuccessFactors, UKG, ServiceNow, and related systems.
* Contribute to enterprise architecture forums and governance bodies, advocating for platform alignment and scalable designs.
Technical Leadership & Mentorship:
* Provide architectural oversight and technical guidance to delivery teams across the full solution lifecycle, from conceptual design through to implementation and support.
* Mentor solution designers, developers, engineering, and analysts to uplift capability in modern solution architecture and best practices.
* Champion the adoption of human-centered design and agile delivery principles in technology initiatives.
Integration & Interoperability:
* Design robust integration solutions that connect People Systems with the broader enterprise ecosystem (e.g. Payroll, Finance, ITSM, Learning).
* Ensure interoperability across platforms with a focus on data consistency, automation, and seamless user experience.
* Work closely with integration, data, and security architects to define and validate patterns.
Performance, Scalability & Resilience:
* Proactively identify architectural risks and technical debt, and define strategies to address performance, scalability, and resilience.
* Support non-functional requirements analysis (e.g. availability, reliability, response times) and solution validation through testing and design reviews.
Risk Management & Security:
* Embed security and compliance controls into solution designs, ensuring alignment with privacy, identity, and data protection policies.
* Partner with Cyber and Risk stakeholders to assess solution risks and develop mitigation strategies aligned to Zero Trust and regulatory requirements.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication:
* Act as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders, clearly articulating solution options, trade-offs, and recommendations.
* Drive alignment between architecture, business strategy, and delivery outcomes through ongoing engagement and communication.
Documentation & Knowledge Sharing:
* Produce and maintain high-quality architectural design documentation, including conceptual models, solution overviews, interface maps, and decision records.
* Contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives.