AddressBig challenges require big solutions. And the transition to a net-zero world is about as big as it gets. Working at Shell Energy - one of Australia’s leading energy retailers - puts you at the heart of that endeavour.
Based in Brisbane, Shell Energy are seeking an experienced Cloud Solutions Architect who can bring ideas to life and create views of the thoughts that flow through the minds of Business and IT stakeholders; a person who inspires broader thinking, gets their hands dirty in the trenches, can simplify complexity and isn’t afraid to embrace turbulence along the way.
This role focuses on the business domain of our metering business, Powermetric. You may have been a CTO in a startup, or an enterprise architect that thrives on both consulting & building solutions, or a solution architect that solves really big engineering problems. Regardless of title, you are a leader, coach, facilitator and creator of architectures that enable our teams to build great solutions that solve real problems for our customers and for the business and IT.
You are comfortable in conversations about operational efficiencies, growth opportunities, market trends and especially Cloud Computing. You speak the mantras about well-architected solutions that operate at scale, you know how to describe the pitfalls of distributed systems, and you know how to extract value out of reference architectures.
Lead the change, from the frontline
In this role you’ll:
- Work with stakeholders across the Executive, Product, Data, Design and Engineering teams to provide architecture guidance and support;
- Work with engineering teams to design transformed, incremental architectures that enable operational efficiencies through the use of DevOps practices;
- Ensure squads are able to meet business outcomes with fit-for-purpose solutions that are consistent with the Shell Energy Australia architectural runway, seeking to create and leverage opportunities for acceleration across all of DTS;
- Hands on solution prototyping and testing architecture patterns;
- Design and model the infrastructure required to support the squads migrating solutions to AWS;
- Provide subject matter expertise with AWS services to constantly challenge the squads and improve the solutions, while considering performance, stability, availability and costs;
- Develop a strong understanding of strategic business initiatives and support strategic planning across the business and IT;
- Build out & maintain the architecture landscape, roadmaps, patterns & application/technology portfolios;
- Support the elaboration of platform designs and component models;
- Maintain an understanding of market offerings that could complement our solutions to assist in high level design scenarios;
- Design architectures that support large, complex processing workloads that meet functional / non- functional business requirements;
- Align architectures with the AWS well architected framework; and
- Design solutions and provide guidance that focuses on broadening the engineering mindset.
What you’ll bring
- Demonstrated experience within Australian electricity industry, specifically related to provision of meters and meter data;
- AWS certified Solutions Architect;
- Experienced in application, integration, security, network & data architecture;
- Hands-on, proficient experience with programming in Python;
- Experience with containers and serverless architectures;
- Experience with Windows, Linux, Unix environments;
- Practical experience building solutions within AWS and experience with architecting AWS production workloads for Business and IT operations, across a hybrid Cloud environment;
- Experience transitioning from legacy Microsoft technology stacks to modern architectures operating within AWS;
- Experience designing distributed systems and working with event driven design patterns;
- Experience designing and guiding the breakdown of monolithic systems into a microservices architecture;
- Ability to present and communicate clearly on complex technical issues to a variety of audiences, including senior management; and
- Developed business acumen along with a curiosity of the bigger picture, and how your work contributes to it.
Every day, our people bring deep expertise, true innovation and investment to help our clients - and the world - reduce their environmental footprint. You can be part of that change.
Here are the top reasons why our people choose us:
- Purpose that you can see. As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you’ll have the best shot at energising a better future, one business at a time.
- Work that’s interesting, innovative and high impact. We hope you’ll love the challenge and opportunity to achieve - for our clients and for you.
- People who bring the expertise and drive to succeed. Our Team is respectful, inclusive, and supports connection and collaboration.
We think you’ll love it here too. Some of our benefits include:
- Competitive remuneration packages, including an attractive incentivised bonus program.
- Generous paid parental leave options that give team members more time to enjoy what matters most.
- Flexible working arrangements, with modern workplaces and technologies that support new, hybrid ways of working.
- An Employee Assistance Program for you and your family when you need it.
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Join us. Together, we can make the difference count.
