Lead Specialist, Technical Solutions

• Why This Role Matters The Lead Specialist, Technical Solutions enables the successful delivery of technology and innovation initiatives by transforming business needs into scalable, integrated, and deployable technical solutions. The role ensures that technology investments deliver measurable business outcomes while remaining aligned with enterprise architecture, operational requirements, and long-term strategic objectives. Acting as a key technical authority across complex initiatives, the role bridges business priorities, domain requirements, and enterprise technology capabilities. It ensures solutions are architecturally sound, operationally viable, secure, and capable of supporting sustainable growth across mining, processing, and enterprise operations. Through technical leadership, stakeholder alignment, and delivery assurance, the role strengthens solution quality, accelerates implementation effectiveness, and promotes the adoption of reusable technology patterns that improve scalability, reliability, and value realization. 2. What You Will Deliver Solution Architecture & Design Develop end-to-end technical solutions that align business objectives, operational requirements, and enterprise technology standards. Define scalable architectures, integration patterns, data flows, interfaces, deployment approaches, and non-functional requirements. Ensure technical solutions remain secure, supportable, resilient, and adaptable to future business needs. Technical Leadership & Delivery Enablement Guide multidisciplinary delivery teams through implementation, testing, deployment, and transition into operations. Strengthen delivery quality through technical oversight, design assurance, and proactive resolution of complex technical challenges. Ensure implemented solutions meet agreed performance, reliability, security, and business outcome expectations. Business Alignment & Value Realization Translate business priorities into practical and achievable technical solutions that support strategic and operational objectives. Shape solution scope, success measures, value hypotheses, and implementation roadmaps with business and technology stakeholders. Drive alignment between technology delivery, operational needs, and targeted value outcomes. Integration & Technical Assurance Enable seamless integration across data, applications, OT, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and enterprise platforms. Resolve technical dependencies, design risks, and implementation constraints that may impact solution success. Maintain architectural consistency through design reviews, technical governance, and documented decision-making. Innovation & Continuous Improvement Develop reusable solution patterns, standards, templates, and best practices that improve delivery efficiency and consistency. Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption opportunities based on business value, scalability, and maintainability. Strengthen organizational capability through coaching, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing. 3. What Success Looks Like Technical solutions are approved, implemented, and consistently aligned with enterprise architecture standards. Solutions demonstrate strong reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and operational readiness. Technical risks, integration challenges, and dependencies are identified and resolved effectively. Delivery teams achieve successful implementation outcomes with minimal rework and strong architectural compliance. Stakeholders report high levels of satisfaction with solution quality, business alignment, and value delivery. Reusable technical patterns improve delivery speed, consistency, and long-term sustainability. 6. Skills That Matter Functional Expertise Solution Architecture & Technical Design System Integration & Interface Design Application, Data & Infrastructure Architecture Technical Risk Assessment Non-Functional Requirements Definition Solution Lifecycle Management Business & Delivery Enterprise Technology Alignment Agile & Product Delivery Practices DevSecOps & Deployment Governance Technical Assurance & Quality Management Value Realization & Outcome Tracking Architectural Decision Making People & Collaboration Stakeholder Management Cross-Functional Leadership Technical Coaching & Mentoring Communication & Facilitation Problem Solving & Negotiation Influencing & Relationship Building

Desired Candidate Profile

Bachelor s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related discipline. Master s degree in a relevant technical or management discipline is preferred. Relevant solution architecture, cloud, integration, agile, or delivery certification is advantageous. 5 10 years of experience in technical solution design, digital delivery, engineering, applications, analytics, data, or related technology environments. Proven experience leading solution design activities and guiding multidisciplinary delivery teams through implementation. Experience translating complex business requirements into integrated and scalable technical solutions. Experience working across architecture, OT, IT, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, and enterprise application environments.