Solution Designer

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Find out more about us at www.accenture.com.

What you’ll do 

As a Solution Designer in Technology Architecture Practice at Accenture, you will be joining a team of passionate and experienced architects and designers. You will be responsible for designing application building blocks and IT solutions that address business needs with performance, resilience, and scalability. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about architecture and is eager to grow into a Solution Architect role.

Key responsibilities

As a representative of Accenture, our Fortune-100 clients appreciate your desire to co-create fit-for-purpose solutions with their own IT specialists and designers, leveraging modern and emerging trends in the industry to add business value and improve IT operational maturity. Therefore, the high-level responsibilities of the solution designer include:

• Collaborating with technical leads, product owners, and architects to co-create detailed design documentation that meet functional and non-functional requirements and fit within the client’s overall technology strategy
• Collaborating with developers and testers to ensure solution designs understood and prepped for delivery, with a willingness to oversee and quality-assure code development as necessary
• Working closely with IT security to enable privacy by design and ensure alignment with client security practices
• Communicating design status, blockers, and opportunities to your lead
• Development of proof-of-concept (POC) prototypes to validate solution approaches, prepare Point of Views to assess technical feasibility, and support architectural decision-making across application and integration layers (optional)            

Here’s what you need

• 5+ years of experience as a Solution Designer or Full-Stack Developer, with a strong background in designing and developing business applications throughout the software development lifecycle using open-source technology stack
• Experience in designing and developing applications using open-source technology stacks across Frontend, Backend, Database, and Integration layers.
• Experience with some of modern engineering best practices: Domain-Driven Design (DDD), API-led, event-driven architecture, XaaS, containerization, databases, cloud-native & serverless technologies
• Certification in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) or architecture methodologies (TOGAF, Zachman or similar) though it’s not a requirement, would be an advantage.
• Strong intention to learn new technologies, be passionate about staying at the forefront of modern solution design patterns, and actively follow industry trends and emerging practices
• Strong effective communication skills with solid interpersonal and analytical decision-making
• Ability to convey information to non-technical colleagues (product owners, IT management) in a concise and clear way
• A logical approach to problem solving and complexity disaggregation, tenacity, and patience along with high attention to detail
• You must also have the right to work in Australia

Benefits of working at Accenture:

• Engaging and dynamic projects in digital application development, cloud modernization, and large-scale business transformation initiatives locally and globally
• High-quality hardware and tools tailored to support your productivity and technical needs
• Access to Accenture Technology Architecture knowledge base, internal training programs and Communities of Practice for collaboration with experts worldwide to support continuous learning
• Structured career development program, including unique inhouse Master Technology Architecture certification program and possibility to obtain market certification
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

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Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:

At Accenture, we recognize that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

 

Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

 

We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

 

To ensure our workplace is inclusive and diverse we are setting bold goals and taking comprehensive action. To achieve these goals, we collect information that allows us to track the effectiveness of our Inclusion and Diversity programs. Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement.