Solutions Architect, It

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work

Flexible leave between Christmas and N

Paid parental leave

Free annual flu vaccinations

Professional development

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the design of technology solutions, providing architectural oversight from design through deployment and operation at our Sydney CBD office. You will collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to translate business needs into scalable, secure technology solutions.

As a senior team member, you will guide architectural decisions, ensure alignment with standards, and contribute to the modernization of

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Solution Architecture or senior technology roles.
• Balance theoretical and practical in solution design.
• Strong knowledge of LMS (Moodle), CRM and Content Management Systems.
• Extensive cloud and SaaS integration experience.
• Solid understanding of Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and API-led integration.
• Proficiency with enterprise integration architecture and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and product requirements into solution architectures.
• Conform to enterprise architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps.
• Prepare and present solution designs through governance processes.
• Document architectural decisions, risks, and dependencies.
• Develop detailed solution designs and technical documentation.
• Ensure security, privacy, availability, scalability, and disaster recovery requirements.
• Consider total cost of ownership and lifecycle of technology.
• Support existing solutions and change management for business requests.
• Estimate effort, costs, and impact of solutions from a project perspective.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure alignment with standards.

Skills

Solutions Architecture

Technical Architecture

Cloud-Native

Azure

Dynamics 365

Power Platform

APIs

Security-by-design

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Observability

Team Collaboration

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Job description

Solutions Architect, IT Royal Australasian College of Physicians Sydney CBD, NSW, AU

About the RACP The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) connects, represents, and trains physicians and trainee physicians across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The RACP provides services to support the delivery of training, continuing professional development, and health policy and advocacy to medical health professionals. Our Values Accountable | Collaborate | Indigenise and Decolonise | Lead the way | Respect Why Join Us? As part of our team, you will be offered a competitive remuneration salary and access to some amazing benefits including a flexible hybrid work model, additional paid leave between Christmas and New Year, paid parental leave, free annual flu vaccinations, professional development opportunities, access to our Employee Assistance Program, special corporate discounts and more! To view all our benefits, visit www.racp.edu.au/about/careers-at-racp. Our 3-2-1 Hybrid Working Model 3 days from anywhere in Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand per week, 2 days from an RACP office location per week, 1 of the two days per week in office spent with your team.

• Permanent
• Full Time
• Hybrid Work

The Role

The Solutions Architect leads the design of technology solutions and provides architectural oversight throughout implementation and transition into operation. Furthermore, as a senior member of the team, it provides technical leadership and guidance on complex projects and problem resolution. Key to this role is pragmatism in implementing best practices with considerations for constraints, risks, business objectives and emerging technologies.

The Solution Architect will partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Project Managers and technology teams to translate business capabilities and requirements into pragmatic, scalable and supportable technology solutions. Clearly articulating architectural options and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including cost, risk, complexity, delivery impact and strategic alignment.

Accountabilities

• Translate business and product requirements into solution architectures.
• Ensure solutions conform to enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures and technology roadmaps.
• Prepare and present solution designs through the appropriate architecture governance process.
• Identify and document architectural decisions, exceptions, risks, technical debt and dependencies
• Develop and maintain detailed solution designs and technical documentation
• Ensure solutions address security, privacy, availability, scalability, resilience, performance, supportability and disaster recovery requirements.
• Consider total cost of ownership, maintainability, operability and technology lifecycle—not simply initial project delivery.
• Provide support for existing solutions and change management for business requests, highlighting any impacts and risks
• Effectively estimate work effort, costs, and impact of solutions from a project perspective
• Identify and implement improvement opportunities in conjunction with agreed business units
• Inform, update and advise stakeholders of things related to technical risks, impacts, development processes, costs and efforts
• Evaluate suitability of products and tools by conducting feasibility studies or proof of concept exercises
• Work collaboratively with internal delivery teams and external technology partners to develop, review and assure solution architectures, ensuring vendor-proposed designs align with RACP architecture standards, security requirements, integration patterns and strategic technology direction.

The successful candidate will have:

To be successful in the role, you will possess the following skills and attributes;

• Significant experience in Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture or senior technology roles, with demonstrated experience designing and delivering complex enterprise solutions.
• Able to balance between theoretical verses practical in solution and architecture design
• Sound understanding of core technologies such as Learning Management (Moodle etc), CRM and Content Management System
• Strong experience in:
  • Microsoft Azure and cloud-native architecture
  • Dynamics 365 and Power Platform
  • Azure Integration Services / API-led and event-driven integration
  • Microsoft Fabric / modern data platforms
  • Identity and access management / Entra ID
  • SaaS and COTS integration
  • APIs, integration patterns and distributed architectures
  • Security-by-design and privacy-by-design
  • DevSecOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
  • Observability, resilience, scalability and performance
  • AI-enabled services and emerging technologies
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration architecture, including APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architectures, data integration, integration security and cloud integration platforms.
• Strong understanding of security-by-design principles, identity and access management, authentication and authorisation, data protection, secrets management, network security, API security and cloud security controls.
• Broad knowledge of current development tools and practices (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, testing methods, peer review, Scrum, CI/CD, DevOps etc)
• Demonstrable project delivery experience and Solution Delivery Life Cycle
• Familiarity with cloud solutions such as PaaS and SaaS platforms and emerging technologies
• Strong understanding of database technologies such as SQL and PostgreSQL
• Experience in planning, developing, and maintaining technical documentation.
• Demonstrable ability to contribute to, and work effectively in teams
• Communicates effectively to technical and non-technical audiences

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