Solution Architect

at  VOCUS

Are you looking for an awesome place to work, where you can proudly be your authentic self, and be part of #oneteam?
We are looking for a passionate team player who aligns with our values and culture, takes pride in their unique contributions, and can challenge the status quo with disruptive thinking. If this sounds like you, come and join us!
The Opportunity
Play a key role in the delivery of IT solutions, by designing solutions that achieve business outcomes in a cost-effective way, while meeting Enterprise architecture, regulatory, security and performance requirements.
What you’ll be doing day-to-day

Platform planning and management.

• Embedded within a cross functional team, Solution architects develop a deep understanding of required business outcomes, and documents the technical solutions required to deliver them.
• Determine how solutions can be thinly sliced, to support rapid and iterative delivery that realises value in advance of a full-scale deployment.
• Identify solution options to inform trade-off conversations on balancing delivery speed, levels of automation, re-use, technical debt, and cost.
• Identify and escalate architecture decisions that require input from Enterprise architecture.
• Work with technical architects to size solutions.
• Have a clear understanding of Vocus strategy, and the implication for platform roadmaps.
• Identify where prototypes are required to validate user experience or complex technical requirements.

Maintain ways of working consistent with Vocus standards.

• Build and maintain relationships with external and internal stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement of the System of Work by raising improvement opportunities.
• Deep understanding of how data is used within business processes and its impact on desired business process outcomes.

What you’ll bring to this role

• Minimum 15years commercial IT experience with 10 Years demonstrated experience as a solution architect.
• 3 Years demonstrated experience in the Telecommunications sector and / or an agile solutioning environment.
• Excellent with business analysis processes and ability to work closely with senior business stakeholders.
• Outstanding commitment to customer service and internal and external customer experience.
• Ability to ensure consistency of standards/procedures and promote efficiencies.
• Well-developed relationship building skills.
• Able to work and deliver to committed timeframes.
• Strong leadership characteristics.
• Negotiation, conflict management skills.
• Experience working with Jira, Confluence, Gitlab and Microsoft office products.

What We Offer

Working at Vocus will give you rewarding experiences and the opportunity to do extraordinary work. You will enjoy:

• Diverse and dynamic teams with a supportive and inclusive culture.
• Supportive career development plans with comprehensive ongoing training, support, and development opportunities.
• Flexible hours and a hybrid working environment
• Generous discounts on power, gas, mobile and internet; plus, discounts to over 400 retailers.
• Competitive leave benefits, including anniversary leave, purchased leave, parental leave, volunteering leave, study leave, and much more. We also offer a fifth week of annual leave when you hit five years of service!
• Study assistance programs to excel your personal growth, learning and development.
• Health and wellness offerings, including access to our wellbeing initiatives that can help you from a financial, psychological, and physical perspective.

Working at Vocus is never just a job – it’s personal. We’re crazy about our customers and believe our people are the difference. Our wonderfully diverse team and a vibrant culture define us. We care about the impact we have on our people, our customers, and our communities and are committed to operating as a responsible, ethical business.
We pride ourselves on setting audacious and ambitious goals and believe that we can play our part in changing the Australian telecommunications landscape and make a fundamental difference to people’s lives.
With us, you’ll have the opportunity to lead and inspire teams, work on projects that are shaping the future of telecommunications and become part of a culture that thrives on creativity, encourages new ideas, and provides a collaborative and inclusive environment.
About Us
As Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, we own and operate 25,000km of secure, high-capacity fibre connecting people, businesses, governments, and communities across Australia to the world. Through our well-known retail brands, we deliver simple and affordable broadband, mobile, voice and energy services with the purpose of Building Critical Connections. Enabling Better Possibilities.
Ready to take the next step?
If you like the sound of this role and think you’d do a great job, but are worried you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to back yourself – we know that diverse groups are less-likely to apply for roles they’re not 100% qualified for, but just as likely to succeed at them!
We are a proud equal opportunity employer committed to providing a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where all our team members feel like they belong. We know diversity makes us stronger and we encourage applications irrespective of background, age, origin, gender, sexual orientation, identity, or ability.
If you feel comfortable, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements upon application, so we can make any adjustments required to support you throughout our recruitment process

• Minimum 15years commercial IT experience with 10 Years demonstrated experience as a solution architect.
• 3 Years demonstrated experience in the Telecommunications sector and / or an agile solutioning environment.
• Excellent with business analysis processes and ability to work closely with senior business stakeholders.
• Outstanding commitment to customer service and internal and external customer experience.
• Ability to ensure consistency of standards/procedures and promote efficiencies.
• Well-developed relationship building skills.
• Able to work and deliver to committed timeframes.
• Strong leadership characteristics.
• Negotiation, conflict management skills.
• Experience working with Jira, Confluence, Gitlab and Microsoft office products