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* Full time, 6 months initial contract position
Excellent opportunity for a Solution Architect Lead, a permanent position with VIC State Gov
Start ASAP / After serving notice period
Your new company
Your new company is a prominent Victorian State Government department, whose responsibilities and work have a long-lasting and genuine impact on the quality of life for all citizens in Victoria. The department is proud of having an organisational culture that delivers innovation, energy, and results.
Your new role
The primary focus of the Solution Architect Lead is to ensure all IT enabled customer, digital and operations services are designed in alignment with business requirements, are fit for purpose, responsive, reliable, secure, and cost effective.
The Solution Architect Lead will create, maintain, leverage and use industry best practice solution designs to enable the organization's future-state architecture and business capabilities.
In addition, the Solution Architect Lead will:
* Be responsible for managing the establishment and maintenance of technology designs for the portfolio of products and services in alignment with Enterprise Architecture principles and blueprints
* Collaborate with key stakeholders and team members on how to align business and technology requirements to the appropriate solution designs
* The Solution Architect Lead will form part of the delivery team, and will be involved in leading detail requirement workshops, produce solution designs and technical specifications through to build, test and implementation
* Assist with the development of effective digital strategies to drive faster user adoption, greater utilisation and higher proficiency of portfolio applications and actively support the execution of IT strategies and roadmaps
* Provide technical leadership and lead technical discussions to ensure the appropriate technical solution is implemented, manage complex system designs and integrations using modern architecture ensuring modularity and reuse by design
What you'll need to succeed
Skills and experience
* Expertise in integration technologies and enterprise architecture patterns (e.g., REST APIs, ESB, iPaaS).
* Strong grasp of networking and infrastructure upgrade projects.
* Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 ecosystem including Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams.
* Experience in assessing various platforms objectively and perform cost-benefit analysis to identify the right fit to support the business capability.
* Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives and business stakeholders.
* Strong problem-solving, and analytical skills, with a focus on delivering efficient solutions to complex business challenges.
* Exceptional proven stakeholder management and interpersonal skills including coaching, facilitation, influencing, negotiation and liaison skills, and the ability to adapt these to a diverse range of stakeholders and contexts.
Qualifications
* Relevant tertiary qualifications and/ or Enterprise Architecture qualification (e.g. TOGAF)
What you'll get in return
You will play a key role in a major project within this department and will significantly improve the lives of all Victorians.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or email Neeta. Email @
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Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Information Technology
* Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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