Domain Architect

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)

The Domain Architect is a diverse role and incorporates the technical leadership and domain expertise for their technology function within the Technology Domain within the Internal Corporate IT Team. This role will ensure systems, offerings, and processes are fit-for-purpose and designed to meet our contracted services across our technology towers of responsibility. The Domain Architect will provide expertise on client engagements, manage small to medium technical programs, and develop, coordinate and deliver all aspects of customer IT needs or parts of large customer engagements. This role includes building roadmaps and doing gap analysis.

What you’ll do

• Providing advanced technical support and advice to others on engagement/program during proposal writing, solution design and implementation.
• Leading team members, third parties, and technological counterparts in client organisations in the integration of technological methodologies and components of projects.
• Ensuring and being accountable for the technical integrity of the design, in accordance with the clients' requirements.
• Developing and assisting in the development of rapid prototyping demonstrations. Managing day-to-day technical program or segment activities, including relationships with the client, managing and reviewing assigned consulting staff.
• Developing and delivering client and internal technical presentations.
• Ensuring new or supported systems are designed to meet and integrate with organisation requirements for quality management, health and safety, legal stipulations, environmental policies and general duty of care.
• Designing, developing and documenting complex infrastructure architectures for the specific domain that meet the evolving IT requirements of our customers.
• Contributing to the Major Incident & Business Continuity plan for Technology Operations.
• Providing architectural assurance for proposed changes to customers’ environment.
• Defining and documenting network architecture within guidelines set by the organisation's chief IT architects/gurus.
• Developing comprehensive technical reports outlining proposed methodologies to achieve desired outcomes.
• Providing technical planning advice to IT management in relation to their needs, current system performance and required solution.
• Maintaining an excellent knowledge of industry/vendor products and solutions within the networking/infrastructure sphere.
• Evaluating the potential of new products to enhance or supersede existing network architecture.
• Providing ongoing support and guidance associated with the organisation's existing networking architecture.
• Reviewing technical infrastructure or system designs to ensure consistency with set standards and policies.
• Providing technical planning advice to business units in relation to their needs, including up front analysis of needs and hardware/software recommendations.
• Ensuring that systems comply with government legislation and standards in those countries in which Datacom operates.
• Responsible for implementing a principle driven health and safety culture that cares for employees and ensures their safety in line with Datacom policy.

What you’ll bring

• Working knowledge of industry best practice relating to Industry standards, ITIL, ISO 27001 and Zero Trust
• Experience in an IT contracting environment.
• Understand of ITAM, IT Asset Management
• Experience in financial modelling for domain solutions.
• Experience with developing and presenting solution options with consideration of financial impacts.
• Proven experience with developing Rodmaps
• Domain Architect experience.
• Developing project management skills. Analytical, communication, and presentation ability.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Exceptional trouble shooting, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong Technical documentation skills.
• Scheduling skills.
• Ability to design complex, technical networking solutions.
• Proven project leadership and technical leadership skills.
• Ability to work on assignments requiring considerable judgement and initiative.
• Assures adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements.
• Ability to work in large collaborative teams to achieve organisational goals, and act as informal leader and mentor developing employees.
• Togaf Certification

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.