Application Architect

Candidates with valid work visa residing in Australia only respond.

• Contract start ASAP to 5 months, 1 x 2.5 months extensions.
• Any working visa, Brisbane, Sydney, or Perth role.

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Overview
Position Description
Responsible for deal shaping, scoping, solution development, competitive costing, and commercial proposition integration and business case alignment of solutions supporting client business, applications and/or information technology environments. Solution scope includes technology design, system integration or project services, steady-state IT service delivery, and services startup and transition. The solutions need to include aspects of people, technology and process for transformation and steady-state delivery.
Key Responsibilities:

• Owns design and development of application solutions, costing/pricing and their internal reviews (deal qualification, delivery assurance and commercials).
• Engage with client to understand requirements, provide thought leadership, advice on application selection, configuration to meet their needs and service transformation as needed.
• Leads client interaction during 'Application Solutioning' including solution/capability presentations, workshops as well as inbound and outbound due diligence.
• Engages throughout the opportunity lifecycle as required.
• Works with application and solution architects and SMEs assembled as necessary for supporting solution development.
• Research and gain knowledge on client and their industry context as well as competitors to enable winning solutions.
• Providing estimated timeframe and technical assessment of the tasks and activities to deliver the solution
• Be the trusted advisor to client and sales teams.
• Develops ideas and communicates status, issues, designs and plans
• Actively engage with service delivery to ensure ability to deliver the solution with quality.

Qualifications and Experience:
Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Seven or more years of experience in application analysis, design and delivery, preferably within a consulting environment
• Experience working with company, client, and/or equivalent vendor-mandated methodology
• Experience working with software, hardware, data and testing standards
• Experience working with delivery assurance principles and procedures
• Experience working with business, management, and technology concepts
• Hands on experience with IT outsourcing or project opportunity lifecycle, sales and pre-sales process, deal costing and pricing concepts and tools, proposal writing, conducting client-facing presentations/workshops and deal governance.
• Sound knowledge and experience of ITSM and project management and advantage.
• Experience with mining industry focus areas

Other Qualifications

• Good research, analysis, and problem solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to adapt in a changing environment
• Ability to produce work products under pressure and within deadlines
• Ability to convey a strong presence, professional image, and deal confidently with complex technical problems
• Willingness to travel

Client/Customer Relationship

• Builds strong professional relationships with key IT and business executives
• Communicates the value of technology in business terms
• Understands and addresses CxO issues in relevant business terms
• Is perceived as a trusted technical/application advisor by the customer
• Manages problem resolution and customer satisfaction issues through strong partnering capabilities