Senior Solution Architect | Wellington
This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: Colorado (USA) Our Why Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
About the Role
As a Senior Solution Architect in our Architecture team, you will help our customers by shaping the high-level design of IT environments and ensure our solutions are aligned with strategic objectives, industry frameworks, and emerging technologies. You will lead and mentor other architects and technical staff, provide technical consulting in multiplatform environments, and work closely with stakeholders to define optimal technology solutions that meet business needs. This is a senior architecture role that combines strategic thinking, technical expertise, and the ability to inspire others to deliver exceptional results whilst enabling our customers to best leverage their ICT investment. Our offices are based in Wellington. We like to bring people together in person when we can, but we are mindful of the benefits of working from home for work/ life balance. We therefore leave it to you and the team you join to figure out what works best! What you’ll do At the moment, as Senior Solution Architect you will work with our customers and be focused on:
- Reviewing and ensuring IT projects comply with architecture strategies and standards.
- Providing technical consulting across multiple platforms.
- Delivering Roadmaps to remediate technical debt and modernising customer environments.
- Engage with stakeholders from the senior management level through to technical teams charged with managing the technology environments.
- Ensuring optimal technology environments for our customers maximising their technology investment.
- Leading architecture activities for complex projects and programmes.
- Exploring and evaluating emerging technologies for innovative, cost-effective solutions.
- Performing current state assessments at the Infrastructure and Application levels.
- Integrating Public Cloud designs and services where appropriate.
- Understanding and aligning architecture and designs to Government standards and policies where relevant including Certification and Accreditation requirements.
- Mentoring, supervising, and developing Solution Architects.
- Defining and documenting industry frameworks, policies, and best practices.
- Working closely with users and technical teams to define solution requirements and support implementation.
We are an agile company, and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders’ changing requirements — and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs. What you’ll bring Required experience:
- Knowledge of industry standards and government regulations relevant to architecture and designs for technology solutions.
- Advanced understanding and experience in designing concepts and technology solutions across Infrastructure, Public Cloud, Networking, Security, and industry frameworks.
- 7+ years of systems development and design experience.
- Strong strategic planning, research and architecture skills.
- Advanced abilities in evaluation of hardware and software options, complex solution design, and project specification.
- Proven analytical, problem-solving, and technical documentation skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
Nice to have:
- Understanding of emerging technologies in the communications sphere and their potential commercial application.
- Experience with various networking vendors.
Why join us here at Datacom? Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment. We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities. We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported. This offer from "Datacom" has been enriched by Jobgether.com and got a 72% flex score. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job