ERP Solution Architect
Are you an experienced ERP Architect or Techno/Functional Solution Designer looking for a new career opportunity in line with the new year ?
Our Client, a leader in innovation is planning to review its business systems to ensure they remain fit for purpose serving the business as it evolves. Operating in a federated, collegiate model with close connections to universities and research partners, you’ll be joining a flexible culture.
With multiple sites in Melbourne and joining an ICT team of approx. 30-50 staff, you can work in the office and home flexibly 2-3 days on site. With easy access to public transport and parking, you’ll be compensated with an attractive salary package.
The Solution Architect will be responsible for designing the roadmap for either the uplift of incumbent systems, or transition to the selected target state vendor(s), to be determined.
Focus is initially on Finance systems in Phase 1, with expansion to HCM/Payroll in subsequent phases. We are seeking Architects with experience across both business domains.
The Role
- Build and maintain a current-state inventory applications and platforms, including ownership, costs, integrations and technical debt.
- Identify duplicated functionality, overlapping solutions and unsupported or low-value platforms.
- Design a simplified target-state architecture built around a smaller number of strategic enterprise platforms.
- Develop and prioritise an application rationalisation roadmap covering consolidation, decommissioning, and platform investment
- Lead solution architecture across the Finance, HR, Procurement and Payroll environment.
- Design secure, scalable, and maintainable end-to-end technology solutions.
- Produce current-state and future-state designs, solution blueprints, integration diagrams, and technical specifications.
- Partner with Finance, HR, Procurement, Payroll, Research and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into practical solutions.
- Guide project teams from initial design through implementation and go-live.
- Evaluate technology vendors, products, licensing models, and integration approaches.
- Drive RFI/RFP processes and vendor selection in conjunction with Program Manager, providing technical ownership and guidance
- Present architecture options, trade-offs, and present recommendations to senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Identify technical risks and dependencies associated with platform consolidation and system decommissioning.
About You
- At least three to five years’ experience in solution design or architecture of business systems across BOTH finance and HCM/Payroll either as Solution Architect, Business Architect, Systems Designer, Senior Techno-Functional Consultant
- Demonstrated experience leading application rationalisation, platform consolidation, and simplification
- Have worked with multiple vendors and been involved in providing technical leadership and guidance for RFI/RFP processes working alongside a PM/Program Manager.
- Experience with Dynamics 365, SAP, Oracle, Workday or comparable Finance AND HCM
- Strong understanding of application, data, integration, and infrastructure architecture
- Experience designing multi-cloud solutions across AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Ability to assess a complex multi-platform environment and develop a practical target-state architecture.
- Experience producing high-quality architecture artefacts and maintaining architecture repositories.
- Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills across technical, business and executive audiences.
- Confidence recommending the consolidation or retirement of familiar systems.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent professional experience.
Nice to Have
- TOGAF, Zachman
- Experience using architecture modelling frameworks and tools such as UML.
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For further information, contact Kylie McManus at kylie.mcmanus@talentinternational.com.