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We're reimagining the way Australians live, work, and play. We own and manage some of the most recognisable and loved retail destinations across Australia. We’re evolving our portfolio into destinations that offer a broad selection of retail, residential, and office spaces. Through our diverse portfolio, data-led decision-making, and nationwide development pipeline, we do things differently. We are Vicinity. Role purpose Solution Architect – Salesforce Focus We’re looking for a strategic, hands-on Solution Architect with deep Salesforce expertise — someone who thrives in complexity, sees the bigger enterprise picture, and can design solutions that scale. In this role, you’ll shape high impact architectures spanning customer, corporate and digital ecosystems. While Salesforce is a critical enterprise platform, you’ll architect end-to-end solutions across multiple domains, working closely with business leaders, delivery teams, platform owners and external partners to turn strategy into executable, value driving outcomes. If you love influencing at the highest levels while staying close to the tech, this role gives you the best of both worlds. What you’ll be doing Solution Architecture Lead architecture planning for complex initiatives where scope and requirements evolve quickly. Design solution architectures across Salesforce and other enterprise platforms including digital channels and core platforms. Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, cohesive and aligned with business and technology strategy. Act as a trusted technical authority from discovery through to delivery. Salesforce & Platform Leadership Define and govern Salesforce architecture across Experience Cloud, Sales & Service, Agentforce, Data Cloud and related products. Design integration and platform data architecture connecting Salesforce with enterprise and third-party systems. Lead architectural direction for Salesforce DevOps, CI/CD, environment strategy and release governance. Oversee platform health, including security reviews and architectural assessments. Shape the Salesforce technical roadmap and evaluate current and emerging capabilities. Stakeholder Engagement Build strong, influential relationships with senior business and technology leaders. Partner with Program Managers, Product Owners, BAs and delivery teams across the lifecycle. Work across corporate, customer and digital domains to ensure alignment and consistency. Architecture Craft & Innovation Produce and govern architecture artefacts including Solution and High Level Desing, as well as contributing to patterns, principles and templates to uplift architecture practice. Evaluate technology options using structured, enterprisealigned approaches. Identify innovative opportunities to enhance customer experiences and business performance. Mentor and support other architects and technologists. About you Experience 5–10 years in solution architecture within complex environments. Deep, handson experience designing and delivering Salesforce-based solutions at scale. Proven ability to architect across Salesforce, Corporate, digital and data platforms. Experience working across Agile and Waterfall delivery environments. Comfortable collaborating with multiple delivery partners and vendors. Technical Capability Strong grasp of solution architecture principles, patterns and tradeoffs. Expertise in cloud, integration and data architecture (Salesforce, AWS, APIs, identity, security). Skilled at balancing customer-facing innovation with enterprise platform and security constraints. Thrives in ambiguity and can bring clarity to complex problem spaces. Personal Attributes Outstanding communication and influencing skills. Strategic mindset coupled with practical, outcomedriven thinking. Able to operate handson where needed while providing architectural leadership. Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple architecture engagements simultaneously. Why Vicinity? Our benefits program focuses on creating an awesome place to work in which our people are rewarded and recognised. This includes: Flexible working options Birthday leave & purchased additional leave $1,000 worth of VCX securities rewarded for eligible team members Generous Parental Leave We live and work by our values of Respect, Integrity, Customer Focus, Collaboration and Excellence. They are the foundation to everything we do and provide us a north star with which we can shape meaningful places where communities connect. At Vicinity we embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where we attract, retain and develop our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community. We are aware of current limitations with our website accessibility and are working towards improving this. Should you experience any issues accessing information in this job advertisement or the application form, and require this in an alternate format, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team. Similarly, if you would like to discuss workplace accessibility, any reasonable adjustments we can make to better support you during the recruitment process, or your potential future role please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team: Email: talent.acquisition@vicinity.com.au Phone: +61 3 7001 4000 (request to speak to our Talent Acquisition team) Note: To be eligible to apply for this position, you must have existing, relevant Australian work rights. At the later stages of the recruitment process the shortlisted candidate/candidates will be required to undergo a Criminal History Background/Police Check as a mandatory part of the process. Additional qualification checks may also be required dependant on role and level. We exist to shape meaningful places where communities connect Together we want to prosper with our people and communities by creating Australia’s most compelling portfolio of retail-led destinations. Our values and behaviours set the expectations we have of each other and how we work together They are simple and easy to connect with, and living these values will help us nurture the culture we would love to have at Vicinity.