Contract Solution Architect

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact on a transformative enterprise initiative? We are seeking an experienced Contract Solution Architect for a 1-year contract to join a dynamic team and play a key role in delivering a strategic programme aimed at revolutionising employee experience across the organisation.

This is your opportunity to work on a high-profile project involving the implementation of Workday and supplementary solutions, driving automation for Learning, Performance, and Talent management processes.

About the Role

As a Contract Solution Architect for an initially 1-year contract, you will lead the design and delivery of solutions that enable seamless data flow and process integration between systems. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture strategies while maintaining compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

Your expertise will be pivotal in consolidating fragmented data, enabling consistent validation across the organisation, and supporting future-state reporting needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architectural engagement and oversight for the project, ensuring alignment with enterprise data strategy.
• Design and maintain data models to support required processes and reporting.
• Collaborate closely with the Enterprise Architect to ensure strategic alignment with target state architecture and promote adoption of standards.
• Partner with delivery teams to consolidate fragmented data for consistent enterprise-wide validation.
• Provide leadership across integration patterns, APIs, event-driven design, and data lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Advocate for platform simplification while maintaining solution documentation.
• Facilitate governance procedures and enable respective solutions.

What You’ll Bring

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience in solution or data architecture related to processing employee-related information.
• Experience working on large-scale data or platform transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, integration patterns, and enterprise architecture principles.
• Familiarity with HCM, payroll, and LMS systems.
• Ability to design and implement solutions in API-first, event-driven architectures.
• Experience collaborating with vendors and cross-functional teams in complex environments.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Exposure to technologies such as Kafka, Snowflake, AirFlow, SpringBoot.
• Experience working within cloud environments (AWS or Azure).
• Understanding of Agile delivery practices (Scrum or Kanban).
• Knowledge of data governance, compliance, and security frameworks.
• Tertiary qualification in a technology or business-related discipline.
• Industry certifications in Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Data Management are advantageous but not essential.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a multi-year strategic programme that will shape the future of employee experience within the organisation. You’ll work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative environment where innovation is encouraged, and your expertise will be highly valued.

If you’re passionate about designing impactful solutions that drive transformation at scale, we’d love to hear from you!

Assignment Duration: 12 months
Start Date: ASAP

Apply now to be part of this transformative journey!

Robert Walters endeavours to review all applications in a maximum of five working days. If you have not received correspondence within this timeframe please do not hesitate to contact Bianca Madden on 64 9 374 7300