About us:

United Energy distribute electricity to more than 660,000 customers across east and south-east Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula, about 90% of our customers are residential. We own and manage the technology, which includes a network of 204,000 poles and over 13,000 kilometres of wires. All day, every day we’re working for our customers, bringing energy into your homes and businesses to keep your world running the way you want it to.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to be the best they can be.

About the Role:

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly driven and capable leader to make this role their own as a Domain Architect – Applications, in our IT Workplace Technology team.

In this critical and highly visible role in, you will be responsible to provide specialist technical leadership in the selection, design, definition and implementation of IT business solutions. The majority of this role will be architecture to drive project delivery and success, with strategic and future roadmap creation. Your expertise in this space, your strong leadership capabilities and your ability to drive key relationships with stakeholders, will be relied upon to maximise business value through the most efficient IT spend.

You will learn and understand the many technologies we use, and continually refresh the roadmap and ongoing strategy for all applications.

We are excited to welcome a practical yet strategically minded individual to our team, who is highly energetic and driven to deliver the needed outcomes for this role.

With exceptional written and verbal communication skills, high energy, and your broad IT application knowledge, this is a permanent opportunity that should not be passed by.

Further responsibilities in this role:

• The development and maintenance of the overall Workplace Technology Application strategy, including guiding the business, people, strategy, technology, and the roadmaps for success
• Ensuring solutions adhere to our security principles and act as a point of escalation for the resolution of application architecture issues encountered on projects
• Contributing to the ongoing development of the architecture practice, ensuring that architecture standards, policies, toolsets, and procedures are continuously improved
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives, and ensuring strategic principles and roadmaps are used to drive future IT project investment decisions to ensure simplification of our IT environment and cost efficiency

About you:
To succeed in this role you’ll have:

• Excellent communication with all levels of the organisation.
• Broad experience with on-premise and in-cloud applications and technologies including SAP
• A good understanding of Project Management fundamentals, as well as exposure to a broad range of technical IT disciplines
• Strong working experience in the Software Life Development Cycle (SDLC) and advanced ability to identify and resolve technical problems
• Demonstrated strong mentoring skills and people uplift capability and proven expertise in driving change across complex stakeholders
• Tertiary qualifications in IT/Computer Science or business-related discipline preferred, as is Waterfall and/or Agile certifications

Your career with us:

When you join our business, your work-life balance and career development are high priorities. We place emphasis on your development through diverse training programs, leadership courses and internal opportunities.

Some of our benefits:

• Exposure to industry leading practices within a strong and stable company
• A great incentives package including an annual performance bonus, health and fitness subsidy, salary packaging options and much more….
• A supportive team culture

If you possess the required skills and experience and you are looking for a fantastic career opportunity, please submit your application by COB 12th July 2022.

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