Senior Solution Architect — End-to-End Digital Design

Publicis Groupe; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive workplace

Learning and development opportunities

Competitive compensation and benefits

Work-life balance flexibility

Generous paid leave

Wellness program

Job summary

Publicis Sapient in Melbourne seeks a senior architect to lead end-to-end solution design for complex business and technology problems, turning client needs into scalable, secure architectures. You will create artefacts, diagrams, and guardrails while partnering with stakeholders, product leaders, and delivery teams.

Bring 8+ years of technology delivery, experience with APIs, microservices, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and strong communication skills to influence trade-offs and drive

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology delivery experience, with strong hands-on engineering foundations and proven experience operating in an architect or technical lead capacity.
• Demonstrated experience in solution design, architecture definition and technical design discussions for business-critical applications and digital platforms.
• Strong ability to produce architecture diagrams and design artefacts that explain system context, integrations, data movement, application components and deployment considerations.
• Experience working with modern application architectures including APIs, microservices or modular services, cloud-native platforms, front-end and back-end integration patterns, and enterprise system landscapes.
• Hands-on cloud exposure across AWS, Azure or GCP, including an understanding of cloud services, networking basics, security principles, CI/CD, infrastructure considerations and operational support models.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to present designs, lead workshops, manage questions and align technical and non-technical audiences.
• Client-facing consulting experience, including the ability to shape solutions, explain trade-offs, influence stakeholders and support commercial or delivery conversations.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end solution approach across applications, services, integrations, data flows, APIs and cloud/platform components.
• Develop practical, delivery-oriented architecture that connects business objectives to engineering execution and measurable client outcomes.
• Define architectural patterns, technology choices, non-functional requirements, integration principles and technical guardrails.
• Facilitate design walkthroughs, technical workshops and architecture reviews with client stakeholders and internal delivery teams.
• Share solution options, recommendations, risks and trade-offs in a confident, structured and consultative manner.
• Identify technical risks early and work with teams to define mitigation plans, spikes, proofs of concept or architecture decision records where needed.

Job description

Publicis Sapient in Melbourne seeks a senior architect to lead end-to-end solution design for complex business and technology problems, turning client needs into scalable, secure architectures. You will create artefacts, diagrams, and guardrails while partnering with stakeholders, product leaders, and delivery teams.

Bring 8+ years of technology delivery, experience with APIs, microservices, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and strong communication skills to influence trade-offs and drive