Introduction A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities As Solution Architect, you will own the end-to-end design of customer connection and portal platforms for a major energy network business. You'll shape solutions across Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure and MuleSoft. You'll also take them through enterprise architecture governance and keep delivery true to the endorsed design from build through to handover.

Working with project managers, business owners, enterprise architects and onshore and offshore build teams, you'll be responsible for:

Solution Design and Governance: Producing the solution brief and solution architecture through to as-built, keeping the assumptions, constraints, risks and decisions registers current, and presenting ADRs and options papers to the Architecture Review Board for endorsement

Integration Architecture: Designing API-led integration across experience, process and system layers, and picking the right mix of synchronous, batch and event-driven patterns for each interface

Platform Trade-offs: Assessing Dataverse capacity and file limits, Power Pages versus custom front ends, and Azure hosting options, then making a clear recommendation

Identity and Access:



Designing external user access on Entra External ID, including migration from Azure AD B2C, tiered access and organisation and contractor entitlement models

Data Migration: Designing migration, reconciliation and in-flight cut-over approaches between core systems and Dataverse

Approvals and Assurance: Working with cyber, privacy, data and AI governance reviewers to get designs approved, and running design conformance and technical debt reviews during build

Estimation and Handover: Giving architecture input to estimates and fixed price proposals, and preparing runbooks, interface catalogues and known limitations for the support team

You'll work across several programs running at the same time. These include a customer portal consolidation, a large squad-based connections automation program, and the handover of a live land development platform. Many design decisions cut across programs, so you'll need to think at portfolio level as well as project level.

Required technical and professional expertise Mandatory Requirements

8+ years in solution architecture, with at least 5 years on Microsoft business applications

Deep hands-on knowledge of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 - Dataverse, model-driven apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, plugins and Custom APIs

Solid Azure solution design experience - Functions, Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Key Vault, App Insights and Log Analytics

Experience designing identity for external users with Entra ID, Entra External ID or Azure AD B2C





A track record of taking designs through formal architecture review and security approval processes

Robust written and diagramming skills - system context, sequence, state and data model diagrams, and papers fit for a review board

Integration & Data

Experience with MuleSoft Anypoint and API-led connectivity, or a comparable integration platform

Data architecture across system of record design, ETL, reconciliation and migration

Understanding of Dataverse platform limits and how to design around them at scale

Experience guiding offshore or distributed build teams through design and conformance

Automation & AI (Desirable)

Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI or Copilot Studio, delivered under a responsible AI framework

Rules engines, pricing or eligibility automation, and RPA (Automation Anywhere or similar)

Optimizely DXP or similar CMS platforms

PL-600 Power Platform Solution Architect Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert or TOGAF

Preferred technical and professional experience Utilities Industry Experience (Preferred)

Experience in utilities, energy or other regulated industries

Understanding of customer connection processes, distributed energy resources (DER) and the AEMO market context

Familiarity with GIS and network data in a utilities setting (e.g. ArcGIS)

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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📌 Solution Architect (Perth)
🏢 IBM Computing
📍 Perth