Solutions Architect
The Game Changers:
Australian Payments Plus (AP+) is here to shape the future of payments for Australia. We aim to deliver more innovation to Australia’s payments ecosystem, for the collective benefit of Australian businesses, government, and consumers.
Our solutions include Australia’s domestic debit network, real-time, data-rich payments infrastructure, secure bill payments, digital identity verification, QR payments and experiences, and open wallet solutions. It’s a new chapter with more possibilities.
Life @ AP+:
We are one connected team in pursuit of one inspiring purpose – to unite people and technology to power better experiences. Each of us has a part to play in making that happen. You’ll be encouraged to bring your big ideas forward and make a difference through your work.Taking steps forward in your career whilst still having room for fun, friendships, and flexibility in your daily life.
We’re driven by our core values: lead with heart, learn for tomorrow and live our legacy. A purpose like ours takes the inspired impact of an incredible team. Ready to change the game with us? Read on to learn more about this exciting role…
The Purpose:
The Solution Architect plays a key role in driving AP+ toward becoming Australia’s leading digital payments firm. Acting as the crucial bridge between our IT capabilities and business goals, this role ensures the successful delivery of software features by overseeing analysis, design, testing, and deployment activities.The Solution Architect works across both agile product teams and waterfall project teams, ensuring that architectural decisions align with business objectives, technological advancements, and regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Translate business requirements into viable technical solutions for the enhancement of our payment solutions. This involves working with both agile product teams and waterfall project teams.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, analyse and understand business needs, and translate these needs into architecture and design requirements.
- Ensure architectural integrity and consistency across the entire product landscape.
- Provide technical guidance and leadership to development teams in the implementation of the designed solutions.
- Perform regular reviews of system architecture and design, offering recommendations for improvements or enhancements.
- Understand, advocate, and support IT strategies, and analyse its impact on the business objectives.
- Maintain a high level of knowledge regarding the company's business plan and its technology standards.
The capabilities we’re seeking are:
- Minimum 7 years of experience in a solution architecture role, ideally in the payment industry.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing complex systems architectures.
- Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields.
- Professional certification in Architecture (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) would be an advantage.
- Strong understanding of architectural principles, models, patterns, and perspective on IT architecture and the financial industry.
- Knowledge of the full technology stack including front-end, back-end, database, network, and DevOps.
- Familiarity with regulatory compliance standards in the payments industry in Australia.
We know applying for a role can be a nerve-wracking experience, so we endeavour to review applications and plan to schedule screening interviews within the next two weeks. If you are among selected candidates, we’ll be in touch to schedule a phone interview.
In any case, we will keep you posted on the status of your application.
We want to remove all barriers to inclusion so if you need advice or support with your application, we’re here to help. Please reach out to recruitment@auspayplus.com.au We also encourage you to let us know your pronouns at any point during the recruitment process.
AP+ are not partnering with Recruitment agencies for this role.