Head of System Architecture
On-siteSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Job Summary
Lead and develop the Systems Architecture function, building a high-performing team of architects and domain specialists across AP+'s payment ecosystems, including NPP, eftpos and BPAY. Set the architectural direction for AP+'s payment platforms, developing target-state architectures, principles, standards and patterns aligned with business and technology strategy. Own end-to-end solution architecture across complex initiatives, providing technical leadership from early-stage concept and feasibility through design, delivery and production deployment. Shape secure, resilient and scalable technology solutions, balancing business outcomes with technical quality, operational resilience, performance and long-term maintainability. Partner across Engineering, Delivery, Infrastructure and Operations, resolving complex technical challenges and ensuring solutions are operationally ready and successfully delivered. Influence senior stakeholders and strategic partners, translating complex technology considerations into clear options and decisions that support AP+'s priorities and the future evolution of its payment platforms.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience in Solution and Systems Architecture
- demonstrated technical and people leadership across large, complex technology environments
- Proven experience designing and implementing Account-to-Account and Card scheme architectures
- ideally within payments, banking or financial services
- Deep architecture expertise combined with broad technical knowledge
- spanning architecture principles and patterns through to applications, databases, networks, infrastructure and DevOps
- Demonstrated experience designing large and complex systems
- evaluating architecture options, dependencies, risks and trade-offs
- balancing functional and non-functional requirements
- Strong stakeholder leadership and influencing capability
- ability to operate credibly from executive conversations through to detailed technical discussions
- build alignment across internal teams, partners and suppliers
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related discipline
- architecture certification such as TOGAF or Zachman
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