Solution Architect

About Us

Recognised as Australia’s largest regional accommodation provider with over 80 owned and operated holiday parks (under the Discovery Parks brand), 220+ licensed independent holiday parks within our G’day Parks network, over 180,000 G’day Rewards Members, and the leading travel app in Australia, WikiCamps, the G’day Group is embarking on an exciting period of growth.

With roots firmly planted in traditional holiday parks, recent years has seen evolving investment into premium, experiential tourism, including the award-wining Discovery – Rottnest Island, a glamping resort in WA, along with buying a number of other resorts, country clubs and golf courses, and more recently El Questro and Kings Canyon Resorts.

Our software engineering teams have built some of Australia’s most popular websites and apps, with millions of unique visitors each year to our digital platforms. During this time, we have won a global award and continue striving to create the greatest digital experience possible.

Discovery Holiday Parks is undergoing a significant period of growth and is undertaking a historic transformation to build the Park and Digital Experience of the future. Accordingly, significant investment is being made into technology and business processes to ensure we can provide market leading experiences to our customers in both the physical and digital realm. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to design solutions for a state-of-the-art ecosystem that is transforming the regional accommodation industry.

The Role

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing technology solutions based on business, functional and non-functional requirements. The role has an emphasis on ensuring proposed solutions are holistic, scalable, cost-effective, secure and fit-for-purpose.

The role bridges the gap between business problems and technology solutions focusing on how to address the broader business and technical needs of Discovery Parks. The role is responsible for presenting and delivering architecture documentation covering business, applications, integrations, data and cloud domains and providing advice and guidance that will be critical in the future state design and roadmap of our technology assets.

You will work within an agile squad environment within teams that include project managers, business analysts and software development lead as well as an offshore team of engineers delivering the solution. Whilst technical proficiency is important to the role, you will also have the attitude, soft skills and leadership capability to engage with a broad range of business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities will include:

·      Lead product/platform selection processes, contribute to business cases, research and design digital solution options including costs, and prepare current and future state architecture mappings.

·      Be a trusted advisor to business stakeholders understanding their needs and collaborating with them to envision and design technology solutions.

·      Analyse, design and develop Solution Architecture documents and artifacts designed to solve both strategic and tactical problems

·      Collaborate with the project team to produce a roadmap of epics, features, stories and effort estimations that are in alignment with the future state architecture plans, defining release increments and transition architectures.

·      Contribute to pre-project high-level project plans, scoping / design, tasks, estimations and costs.

·      Review user stories, epics, business requirements and functional specifications from a technical feasibility perspective offering technical advice on solutions

·      Collaborate with Development Leads in detailed design workshops and reviews.

·      Work with the Head of Software Engineering to drive new solution and technology architecture, architecture patterns and practices.

·      Perform (as well as facilitate involvement of others e.g., cybersecurity team) architecture/implementation reviews and document any departures / technical debt and plan & sequence any remediation

Your Experience

To be successful in this role you will have completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field and experience working as a Solution Architect in an agile and cloud environment. To be successful in the role, you will have experience working with business leaders to understand capability requirements, and articulate a solution and a plan (MVP, transition architectures) for building out the capability incrementally.

Ideally you will have experience around application integration with a number of core systems such as web and mobile application development, CRM, Marketing automation, Booking, Property management systems, billing and other platforms in a real-time environment and experience in the marketing domain. You will bring experience designing solutions with an API first architecture.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a central part of a vibrant cross-functional team focused on delivering business outcomes through state-of-the-art technology.

Desired skills and experience include –

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience working in the role of a solution architect producing solution design documentation and facilitating design discussions
• Experience in an agile delivery/development environment
• Working knowledge of fundamental Computer Science concepts and algorithms
• Working knowledge of fundamental integration patterns, API development patterns and layered App design patterns
• Experience designing solutions based on open API’s and middleware
• Experience with the Azure ecosystem: App Services, Azure Functions, Web Jobs, Azure Search, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hub, elastic services
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement or similar CRM platforms such as Salesforce

You will possess a high level of energy, self-motivation, autonomy, initiative, flexibility and attention to detail to be successful in meeting the business demands at Discovery Parks. Your naturally upbeat and open style will fit our cultural values. You will have a highly organised mindset with the ability to assess the urgency of work allocated to you by various stakeholders. You will be curious and possess a high level of energy, self-motivation, initiative and flexibility to be successful in meeting the business demands at Discovery Parks.

G’day Group is a dynamic company with an energetic ‘market disrupter’ reputation. If you are passionate, adventurous, and ready to hit the ground running, we want to hear from you.

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Benefits

• Health and Wellbeing – Flexible and hybrid working arrangements / Employee Assistance Program / Discounted private health cover / BeWell Training Program / Weekly yoga and walking group / Free annual flu vaccinations
• Leave Policies – Parental leave / Volunteer leave / Study leave 
• Professional Development – Leadership programs / Support of external training courses / Reimbursement of professional memberships
• Employee Savings – Discounted accommodation and experience rates / Salary packaging / Discovery partner discounts/ Free G’day Rewards membership / Loyalty recognition benefits

Our ESG statement

The G’day Group acknowledges the increasing global expectation to demonstrate our approach to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk factors and sustainability in our daily operations and ongoing decision making. Our five-year ESG strategy is evolving to ensure we are committed to growing with care through supporting our people, giving back to the communities we operate in, and protecting our environment.

Prior to an offer of employment being made, candidates must provide authority for a Federal Police Clearance to disclose any criminal offences or charges. Drivers Licence essential.