Join our innovative and energetic team! Our IT experts are creative problem solvers that enable over 1000 Save the Children Australia employees to perform their roles and impact the lives of children. You will drive continuing improvement and your extensive knowledge will help you make complex systems and processes easy to understand. You will contribute to the delivery of outstanding client service and high levels of satisfaction for our user community across more than 25 sites in Australia, the Pacific and beyond.​​

Save the Children is no ordinary not-for-profit

We're ambitious, creative, and outspoken. We stand up for children's rights. We want all children to be educated, healthy and live a life free from violence. We run programs in Australia and overseas and, if there's a disaster - like an earthquake, drought, or conflict - we are there on the ground.

Where you come in:

In this full-time, 6-month fixed-term position based in our Carlton* Head Office, you will be responsible for the architecture of all applications for Save the Children Australia. This will include all architecture disciplines and will establish architecture governance, principles, and tools to develop technical solutions that are fit-for-purpose and align to the target state. Initially your focus will be on understanding and documenting the current landscape, with a view to develop a target-state architecture roadmap. You will play a pivotal role within our Technology Team and report to our Chief Information Officer.

You will make an impact by:

• Providing technical leadership and leading discussion to ensure the appropriate solutions are tabled, planned, and implemented,
• Creating and maintaining architecture artefacts for both the current and the future-state,
• Driving solution architecture and design across our application landscape, from ERP applications through to Digital and Data platforms,
• Developing a system health catalogue to better understand technical debt and work with delivery teams to prioritise appropriately,
• Along with the CIO, providing technical analysis and advice to senior stakeholders, and
• Actively participating in all architecture domains (e.g., application, data, digital, integration, infrastructure, enterprise, and security).

Does this sound like you?

You have a deep expertise in all manner of architecture disciplines and are known as a Change Agent, able to deliver on significant architecture objectives. An impressive communicator, you have a knack for articulating complex technical problems, and solutions, to a non-technical audience and in doing so, garner support for innovative, technology-lead change.

This role requires:

• Significant, expert experience in a wide array of technologies,
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and negotiation skills,
• Strong adaptability and capacity to delivery through change,
• A hands-on approach to solution architecture with an ability to influence and educate stakeholders appropriately, and an
• Ability to achieve architecture objectives and create systematic architecture change.

Working at Save the Children is more than just a job

It's the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place for children and working with others who feel the same. In addition to a connection to social causes, you will have access to:

• Opportunity to work on additional projects alongside business as usual
• Internal employment and development opportunities
• Friendly and flexible work environment
• Agile work environment including working from home and hybrid working styles
• Pet friendly work environment
• Child friendly work environment
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Full salary packaging benefits (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)

For more information regarding our employee benefits, please follow this link.

Sound interesting?

We'd love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume via our Applicant Tracking System below.

Position Description - Solutions Architect

*We understand flexibility is important to you. We've advertised this role as a Full-time, Contract role based in Carlton., but if you're looking for something slightly different, please let us know. We offer flexible hours, remote working, and flexible job structure, among many other employee benefits. All are available for the right candidate!

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation. Successful applicants are required to provide evidence of vaccination against COVID-19, or proof of medical exemption.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it's straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn't quite hit the mark for you, please let us know! We're dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a workplace suitable for all people and can modify our processes to suit you - no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check where necessary, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.