Senior Solutions Architect

Our Architecture Services team provides Architectural services that clients, sales and other internal business units can consume. The team is responsible for creating, maintaining, and overseeing the integrity of end-to-end technology designs and solutions ensuring they address specific opportunity and project business requirements. The work within the team predominantly consists of client-facing pre-sales and project-related activity.

With growth in our team, we are now seeking a Senior Solutions Architect (IT Infrastructure) to take on a key role in our WA team. 

We’re seeking a highly experienced Senior Solutions Architect with deep capability across enterprise infrastructure, including compute, virtualisation, storage and backup technologies. This role suits a seasoned architect who thrives in client-facing engagements, excels in solution design, and can confidently lead both pre‑sales and project delivery activities.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of technical expertise, commercial awareness, and consulting experience, paired with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels and operate as a trusted advisor. They will be comfortable working within complex enterprise environments, developing end‑to‑end solutions, and ensuring technical integrity throughout the solution lifecycle.

Key Skills and Experience

Technical Leadership & Architecture Expertise

• 7+ years architectural experience designing and delivering complex IT infrastructure solutions, ideally in a Managed Services environment.
• Proven experience with HPE server and storage platforms, Cisco networking, Netapp storage, and complementary enterprise technologies (e.g. Aruba, Fortinet, virtualisation, cloud platforms etc).
• Demonstrated capability in installing, configuring and integrating infrastructure technologies across on‑prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
• Ability to serve as Technical Lead during both pre‑sales engagements and delivery phases, providing solution design, technical oversight, and guidance to engineering teams.

Client Engagement & Consulting Skills

• Strong customer-facing presence, able to build trusted advisor relationships and clearly articulate technical concepts to business and technical stakeholders.
• Skilled at uncovering client business requirements and translating them into high-quality, commercially sound solution designs.
• Experience facilitating client workshops, solution demonstrations and presentations.
• Ability to work on billable customer engagements, with a focus on great customer outcomes.

Pre‑Sales & Commercial Acumen

• Extensive background contributing to bids, proposals and tender responses as a subject matter expert.
• Ability to produce accurate cost models, solution scopes, and architecture documentation.
• Demonstrated success influencing clients and supporting sales teams to drive solution adoption.

Team Contribution & Mentoring

• A collaborative mindset with a passion for lifting capability across the architecture team.
• Experience mentoring associate architects or engineers, supporting their development in both technical skills and consulting capability.

Qualifications & Certifications

• Certifications across HPE, Cisco, Aruba, and Netapp technology stacks.
• AWS, Microsoft Azure certifications (preferred).
• TOGAF and/or ITIL certifications.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (undergraduate or postgraduate) highly regarded

Our Company

NEC is a leading global software and solutions technology business. Over the last 50+ years of business here in Australia, NEC has helped future-proof organisations in a dynamic and fast changing business environment, driving growth and efficiencies through smart technology solutions, manage risk, solve workforce issues and help businesses improve their customer and employee experience. Working with government agencies and private enterprise, NEC streamlines and simplifies the complex technology requirements, working in areas including health, transport, construction, manufacturing, emergency services, corrections and law enforcement and many more.

At NEC, we offer an outstanding working environment and the opportunity to be part of a high performance team. We place great emphasis on our staff satisfaction and have a fantastic corporate culture and a highly responsive management team.

Please apply online now!

NEC is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.