About the Role
We are looking for a talented Solutions Architect / Technical Consultant, with excellent communication skills, who welcomes a challenge, and enjoys working with people and technology to drive positive change and improve how we do business.
About Solentive
The opportunity to work on highly innovative projects with a diverse range of clients across all industries
Career Growth: The opportunity to grow your consulting skills with the support of your team
Opportunity to experience a variety of software technologies in different domains
A team that challenges you to be your best. Work in an environment where people come first, teamwork is critical, and we encourage you to learn and tackle interesting problems
Fantastic employee benefits including:
Hybrid working and flexible hours
Additional loyalty leave – 1 & 2 weeks additional leave annually at certain tenure milestones
Team lunches and activities
Health & fitness benefits
About You
Tertiary degree in Information Technology or Computer Science
Industry standard architecture certifications, either:
Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Background with hands-on experience in .NET software engineering, PaaS (Azure or AWS), SaaS, and integrations
5+ years of hands-on technical role such as a Software Engineer or Technical Consultant.
3+ years of client-facing or Consulting experience
Ability to understand a client’s technology requirements and recommend a product suite that is fit-for-purpose
Ability to think creatively and devise pragmatic, innovative technology solutions to clients across a range of industries and budgets
Ability to provide accurate estimation of solutions
An excellent communicator with both clients and technical team members at all levels
A desire to collaborate across the business, working with the Sales team to help achieve strategic outcomes
Attention to detail and ability to self-manage to deliver against clients’ expectations, set timeframes and budgets
Drive quality in every aspect of your work, setting the standard for others
Passionate for achieving outcomes for clients
A self-motivated team player
Ability to energise clients with your enthusiasm, drive, and innovative thinking
Develop high-quality documentation including polished diagrams and prose, for a variety of audiences and purposes
Be one of the driving forces behind the Consulting group achieving outstanding results
A growth mindset and a desire to further your knowledge in the technology space
Responsibilities:
Engage with businesspeople to understand the commercial strategy and objectives that drive technology strategy
Engage with technical staff to understand technical requirements and objectives that contribute to the technology strategy
Based on each clients’ technology strategy, create innovative, fit-for-purpose architectures that may leverage combinations of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, legacy systems, custom software and data platforms
Excite clients’ businesspeople and technical staff through the communication of ideas, options and potential solutions
Collaborate with the Sales team to put forward estimates and progress sales to potential and existing clients
Build strong, trusting relationships with clients at all levels through confident, clear and concise communication
Manage communications and delivery of your consulting services
Provide architectural oversight and technical design advice to Technical Consultants implementing COTS & integrations, and to the Software Engineering teams implementing custom software
Strengthen your technical expertise and credibility in technical design by participating in some hands-on implementation of a variety of technologies including cloud platform PaaS (eg Azure, AWS), SaaS products (eg decision platforms, process automation, CRM, etc), and custom software
Continue to evolve Solentive’s service offerings in response to market needs and technology trends
Nice to Have
Integrations: APIs, Zapier, MuleSoft
Workflow & Automation: Microsoft Power Platform or AWS Honeycode
CRM: Microsoft Dynamics 365 or Salesforce
Data platforms: Azure Synapse, AWS Athena
Business Intelligence: Power BI, AWS QuickSight