Lead Solution Designer

Position Summary

The candidate must possess the vision and hands on experience to formalize, standardize, govern, and evolve the architecture design, standards, and processes in our Intranet systems with the objective to deliver best practice, relevant, timely, reliable, and cost effective solutions. Assist in overseeing a balanced IT project portfolio that meets business objectives and align the strategic plans of both IT and the business. Assist IT management to develop and align a 3 year roadmap for the SingTel Group’s IT systems with the business’ strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Partnering with IT management and business stakeholders in understanding business issues and translating business needs into a technology solution
• Working with various Domain/Solution Architects and other Architecture and Design Managers to document SAP and non-SAP Technical Design Standards and Processes
• Gaining and retaining detailed technical knowledge of the portfolio of systems
• Ensuring vendor specifications comply with the technical requirements of the design
• Ownership within multiple independent projects simultaneously
• Ability to challenge user requirements to ensure that appropriate IT due diligence is placed on requirements as opposed to delivering unreasonable or unnecessary functionality
• Cost effective justification of designs

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher degree in Computer Science or IT.
• More than 10 years software development experience
• Proven track record of successful project/product implementation with minimal 10 years of software development experience
• Minimum 3 years’ experience with front-end development using ReactJS, Angular, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3
• Minimum 4 years’ experience developing mobile backends or APIs on .NET Framework (C#), with minimum 5 year of experience working with .NET Core and node.js
• Experience with front/back-end package management tools
• Good OO-skills. Must demonstrate strong familiarity of design patterns
• Strong knowledge of REST, JSON, XML, WSDL, GraphQL, ODATA
• Experience developing on both mobile and web platforms. Proficient with TDD, MVVM, SOLID principals
• Hands-on experience with Azure App Services and Functions
• Experience working as part of an Agile / Scrum team

We understand that flexibility means different things to different people. We're proud to offer a variety of options to work in different ways, such as our Blended Ways of Working and job share. Our Blended Ways of Working lets our people work across home and our offices. Please talk to us about how we can make this role work for you!

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So, Why Optus?

Our vision is to be Australia's most loved everyday brand with lasting customer relationships. By creating unique customer connections, being digital everywhere and delivered by our amazing people.

Every role at Optus helps us to achieve our vision. We believe in the value of an inclusive and diverse workforce for our people to build stronger connections within our teams, with our customers and fuel innovation.

We're a highly collaborative workplace, and offer a range of perks such as:

• Discounts to Optus products and services, and to over 400 retailers Australia wide
• Ongoing training, mentoring and development opportunities
• Hybrid ways of working
• Competitive salary (expand upon STI, Comms etc.) (OPTIONAL)
• Vibrant campus life, variety of facilities including restaurants, cafes, gymnasium, GP, and post office (Admin/SYD ONLY)

It starts with Yes!

To find out more about our culture at Optus, go behind the scenes with our people by searching #OptusLife on LinkedIn.

Please no recruitment agencies, we’ll be managing this role in-house. Any resumes submitted outside of our process will be deemed the sole property of Optus.

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