Sydney, NSW, Australia

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