Hands-On Solutions Architect — APIs, Microservices & AWS

DWS Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

DWS Group is actively seeking a hands-on Solution Architect in Sydney to lead architectural work across a regulatory technology delivery portfolio. The role collaborates with engineers, platform teams, analysts, and vendors to create practical, buildable solutions for complex enterprise environments.

The position offers a hybrid work style with 3+ days onsite in Sydney. You will define APIs, data contracts, and migration strategies while ensuring robust security and non-functional requirements

Qualifications

• Hands-on architectural experience delivering enterprise-grade solutions.
• Proven API and integration architecture expertise.
• Experience with AWS/AWS EKS and microservices.
• Strong REST/OpenAPI knowledge and security understanding.
• Ability to drive architecture decisions with engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain Solution Architecture Documents (SADs), High-Level Solution Architecture artefacts and Solution Design Documents (SDDs).
• Define REST APIs, interface contracts, OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, request/response models, schemas and error handling.
• Develop system context, component, integration, sequence, data-flow and deployment diagrams.
• Design synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns, including API, event, messaging, batch and file-based interfaces.
• Work with engineering teams to define microservice boundaries, responsibilities and contracts.
• Define system-of-record responsibilities, data ownership, data flows, identifiers, reconciliation requirements and state transitions.
• Analyse impacts to legacy systems and design coexistence approaches between legacy and modern platforms.
• Define migration, transition, cutover, rollback and reconciliation strategies.
• Work with security and identity teams to define authentication, authorisation and security requirements.
• Define non-functional requirements covering availability, resilience, scalability, performance, observability and recoverability.
• Lead technical design workshops and support backlog refinement activities.
• Work directly with developers and technical leads throughout implementation.
• Review detailed designs and implementation approaches for alignment with agreed architecture.
• Resolve solution and integration issues encountered during delivery.
• Maintain architecture decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks and deviations.
• Support testing, release readiness, operational transition and knowledge transfer activities.

Skills

Hands-on architect

API integration architecture

AWS

OpenAPI/Swagger

REST APIs

Event-driven architecture

Kubernetes

Kafka

Security architecture

Microservices

Tools

Kong API Gateway

Confluent

Salesforce

Snowflake

Oracle

Job description

DWS Group is actively seeking a hands-on Solution Architect in Sydney to lead architectural work across a regulatory technology delivery portfolio. The role collaborates with engineers, platform teams, analysts, and vendors to create practical, buildable solutions for complex enterprise environments.

The position offers a hybrid work style with 3+ days onsite in Sydney. You will define APIs, data contracts, and migration strategies while ensuring robust security and non-functional requirements