Solutions Architect / Technical Consultant

Solentive is an Australian owned Digital Consultancy who solve clients’ unique challenges using a combination of products and software development. Our team is a collection of hard-working, talented people, who value connection, continuous learning, and solving problems in new and unique ways. 

We strive to work only with ethical companies, and our clients are some of the most forward-thinking organisations in Australia and come from all different industries. You will gain invaluable experience working across a variety of domains and technologies. 

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. 

What we can offer you: 

• 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
• Team lunches and activities
• Health & fitness benefits

Key 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 (e.g., Azure, AWS), SaaS products (e.g., decision platforms, process automation, CRM, etc.) and custom software
• Continue to evolve Solentive’s service offerings in response to market needs and technology trends 

Essential Skills: 

• 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 the ability to self-manage to deliver against clients’ expectations, set timeframes and budgets
• Background with hands-on experience in .NET software engineering, PaaS (Azure or AWS), SaaS, and integrations
• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert or experience in architecting complex PaaS-based applications in Azure. 
• 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
• 3+ years of client-facing or Consulting experience

Experience in the following areas is highly desirable but not essential: 

• Integrations: 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

How to apply:  

Apply via Seek or through the Solentive website - www.solentive.com.au or contact us directly by email to ****@solentive.com  

Recruitment agencies, thank you for your interest but we plan to fill this role ourselves.