Application Architect x 2
Job Description:
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.
Send your responses to jobs@softtestpays.com
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