Solutions Architect / Technical Consultant

• 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