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.
Job Description
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
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.
Desired Skills and Experience
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-technicalaudiences
To apply, please send your resume and short cover letter by clicking Apply
We will be reviewing applications as they are received. If a suitable candidate is identified, the advertisement may close earlier than the advertised closing date.
For any further information, please Email: recruitment@racp.edu.au
