Senior Solutions Architect

We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local to state government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens.
Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we're at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration.
As a company, we’re passionate about what we do and the citizens we help to serve. If you too would like to help champion the use of technology in public services, to improve outcomes for citizens and public sector organisations, then Civica is the right place for you. We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, achieve growth in your career whilst making a real difference to people and communities.
About role:
Civica is currently seeking for a Senior Solution Architect with significant experience with a wide range of platforms and technologies for our Health Business Unit.
Working as part of our Health Team, the Solution Architect will design and build best-in-class architectures for central platforms and components to be used across the Civica product range.
This role is a key member of the team responsible for envisaging, delivering, and maintaining a repository of software artefacts to accelerate the development and improve supportability of new and existing Civica products.
Requirements
Essential competencies:
Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks:

• Extensive knowledge and experience of architecture integration patterns and associated standards and technologies.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of microservices, web services and associated technologies and frameworks, such as RESTful API design.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of web application development, such as Microsoft ASP.NET.
• Knowledge and experience of database technologies including MS SQL, operating systems including Windows & Linux and network design with an excellent understanding of how these components interact to meet the solution requirements.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice for solution security. E.g. OWASP, NCSC cloud security principles.
• Experience of working within a Microsoft technical stack and development environments, such as .NET Core and associated tools and frameworks.
• Knowledge and experience of infrastructure as code practices, tooling, and techniques.
• Knowledge and experience of software development best practice.
• Experience of Agile development, preferably Scrum.
• Knowledge and experience of Javascript based frameworks such as Angular.

Personal attributes:

• Degree level education, or equivalent.
• Ability to articulate and present different points-of-views on various technologies.
• Highly results focused.
• Solution-oriented with the imagination to identify workarounds for critical problems.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to guide, direct, motivate and support staff either directly or indirectly.
• Effective time management and an ability to recognize and respond to changing priorities and requirements.
• Good organization skills.
• Self-starting and self-motivated with a positive, can-do attitude.

Principal responsibilities and tasks:
As part of your customer-facing role, you will be responsible for developing and managing the applications' whole development lifecycle. Along with designing and coding new features, you will also analyze new requirements and offer third-line application support.
Provide leadership, support, and work collaboratively within the product team to develop Health products. Manage the software applications' technical development and collaborate with the product strategy manager to identify and plan deliverables and the project's timeline.
Benefits
Why you'll love working with us.
We know that when our people are happy, they will work better and have greater work satisfaction. Here's what you can expect:
We're all different - and we love this about us.
We provide an inclusive, safe, and welcoming environment to all Civicans, new and old Focus on learning- there are heaps of opportunities to enable you to grow and be your best.
Giving culture - we encourage you to "give back" with benefits such as our Days of Difference leave where you can volunteer for a charity of your choice.
Flexible Work - we have the technology and tools to support you to work from home and come into our offices now and then to catch up and socialise with colleagues.
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