Lead Solution Architect

• $158,839 per annum + superannuation
• Full time, Ongoing
• Geelong location (hybrid working model – 3 days in office / 2 days from home)

At WorkSafe we’re dedicated to supporting all Victorians to be healthy and safe at work and to recover from any workplace injury or illness as quickly as possible. Our passion for safety and wellbeing is what unites us.

About the role

The Lead Solution Architect is a key leadership position in the WorkSafe Technology division and operates at a senior level, to influence and ensure technology investment is optimised. The Lead Solution Architect is required to engage with key business and technology stakeholders ensuring effective business outcomes that align with WSV’s strategic direction.

Key accountabilities:

• Lead and mentor domain/project architects and technical specialists, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, best practices, and standards, as well as the creation and maintenance of architecture documentation including high level designs, technical specification and integration diagrams
• Review and approve technical designs to ensure they meet quality standards, security requirements and business objectives. Identify potential risks or challenges and proactively develop mitigation strategies as required
• Provide guidance on technical challenges and decision-making, ensuring that design choices support both current needs and future scalability
• Define and implement architectural governance processes to ensure consistency and alignment across all solutions and ensure solutions are designed with the consideration of security, compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Lead efforts to balance quality, time, and cost constraints, ensuring that the chosen solutions are both effective and cost-efficient and recommend and implement strategies for optimizing resources and operational costs while maintaining solution quality and performance.

Please ensure you take a look at the Position Description here for additional information on accountabilities for this role.

About you

You have deep knowledge of Salesforce platforms and its capabilities including Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Field Service, Public Sector Solutions and Marketing Cloud. You have a passion for Program Architecture with specific demonstrable experience in data and applications and integration architectures. Your proven mentorship and guidance to other solution and technical architects highlights your excellent team management skills and ability to foster collaboration within cross-functional teams. Further, you will also possess:

• Strong proficiency in Salesforce architecture, including designing scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions that leverage Salesforce best practices
• Experience in designing and deploying Salesforce applications, managing customization, automation (e.g., workflows, Process Builder, Flows), and building declarative solutions using Salesforce's low-code features
• Experience in assessing various platforms objectively and perform cost-benefit analysis to identify the right fit to support the business capability
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives and business stakeholders
• Exceptional proven stakeholder management and interpersonal skills including coaching, facilitation, influencing, negotiation and liaison skills, and the ability to adapt these to a diverse range of stakeholders and contexts.

Qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or Enterprise Architecture qualification (e.g. TOGAF)
• Relevant Salesforce certifications will be highly advantageous.

Working with Us

At WorkSafe, we aspire for every employee to feel connected, safe and valued in their team, for teams to feel valued in the workplace, and for WorkSafe to be valued in the community.

We believe that a diverse workforce is the key to delivering the best outcomes for the Victorian community and strongly encourage applications from all people, including First Nations people and people with disability, diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, sexualities and genders. 

What’s next?

Applications close 11:00pm Wednesday 5th February, 2025. Click the link to apply, and join us in making a difference to Victorian lives.

Due to the ongoing nature of this role, only those with Australian Citizenship, Permanent Residency or New Zealand Citizenship will be considered. You may be required to undergo a National Police Check, Reference Checks, Qualification Checks and/or Medical Assessment/s as part of the recruitment process.

Candidate screening may take place prior to the advertisement closing, so get your application in.

For further enquiries please contact Talent Acquisition Specialist, Brittany Walker via email Brittany_walker@worksafe.vic.gov.au. Please note, only applications submitted via our formal channels (WorkSafe Careers Website, SEEK, LinkedIn or Vic Gov Careers) will be considered.

About us

WorkSafe's Strategy has our core purpose front of mind – reducing workplace harm and improving outcomes for injured workers. We don’t shy away from the importance of our purpose to the Victorian community, that’s why we have a stated ambition to be world leading.

We want Victoria to be the safest place to work in Australia and one of the safest in the world; and we aspire to be a world leader in return to work after a workplace injury.

WorkSafe are striving to build a diverse workforce that reflects the Victorian community we serve.