Solution Architect

The Role

This is a hands-on Solution Architect opportunity embedded within a mid-sized technology function at a purpose-driven financial services organisation. Working autonomously across a portfolio of concurrent initiatives, you will own end-to-end solution design across payments, business process automation, and integration, with meaningful exposure to customer-facing digital channels including mobile and online banking. The environment is collaborative and fast-paced, sitting within a team of around 40 spanning delivery, engineering, development, and application support. This role demands a proactive practitioner who can engage confidently with business and technology stakeholders, translate complex requirements into practical architectures, and context-switch across multiple workstreams without sacrificing quality or momentum. Infrastructure is vendor-managed, so the focus here is firmly on applications, integration, and process architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution design across multiple concurrent initiatives, with a focus on payments, business process automation, and integration, translating business and technology requirements into clear, scalable, and risk-balanced architectural solutions.
• Design and deliver customer-facing digital solutions including mobile banking and online banking platforms, ensuring cohesive integration across applications, systems, and third-party services.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to business and technology stakeholders, providing proactive guidance on solution feasibility, architectural trade-offs, and risk, and influencing outcomes through clear, credible communication.
• Contribute to the development and governance of architectural principles, standards, and documentation, ensuring all solutions align with the enterprise architecture roadmap, regulatory requirements, and security policies.
• Collaborate with delivery teams, vendors, and cross-functional partners to ensure solutions are built as designed, managing dependencies across concurrent workstreams and maintaining delivery momentum throughout.

Skills & Experience Required

• 10+ years of solution architecture experience within financial services, ideally banking, with deep knowledge of banking capabilities including payments, business process automation, core banking, and digital channels.
• Strong hands-on expertise across integration architecture, APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms, with demonstrated ability to design and deliver solutions concurrently across multiple domains without infrastructure dependency.
• Proven track record delivering customer-facing digital solutions including mobile banking and online banking platforms, with the ability to operate autonomously, context-switch effectively, and maintain delivery quality across a varied project portfolio.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the confidence to provide proactive, candid technical advice to senior business and technology leaders and drive alignment across complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline; TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise or solution architecture framework experience is advantageous.

What’s in it for You

• Initial 6-month contract with a competitive day rate on offer.
• Melbourne CBD location with hybrid working arrangements.
• Financial services environment with a focus on payments, integration, and customer-facing digital banking channels, not infrastructure.
• Embedded within a collaborative technology team of around 40 spanning delivery, engineering, and application support, with genuine scope to shape architectural direction.
• High-autonomy role with real breadth across concurrent initiatives, ideal for an architect who thrives on variety and meaningful technical challenge.

Apply today and Jimmy Nguyen will reach out to disclose further information.