Senior Solution Architect - Banking & Cloud, Sydney

QIX Consulting Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

QIX Consulting is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead enterprise architectures for a major banking environment in Sydney. You will shape architectural direction across infrastructure, cloud, on-premise and hybrid solutions and drive governance and certification with senior stakeholders.

The role involves defining concrete designs, ensuring security controls, and coordinating with SMEs, project managers and governance bodies to deliver strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Solution Architect within complex enterprise environments.
• Experience delivering architectures for infrastructure, cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments.
• Experience in Banking/Financial Services or Payments technologies (e.g., SWIFT, NPP, FSS).
• Knowledge of COBIT 2019 and ISO 27001 security frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define solution architectures, high-level designs and impact assessments for key initiatives and systems.
• Own conceptual and solution architecture deliverables from development through stakeholder endorsement.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure architecture solutions.
• Develop high-level designs with SMEs aligned to enterprise standards.
• Partner with Project Managers to scope initiatives and identify dependencies.
• Drive the Architectural Certification process to completion.
• Identify dependencies across projects and platforms.
• Resolve complex architecture contentions and ensure security considerations are incorporated.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Cloud & Hybrid

Security & ISO27001

COBIT 2019

Terraform

Puppet

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Stakeholder Management

Education

Relevant tertiary qualifications in IT/Technology

Tools

Terraform

Puppet

vRA

Chocolatey

Packer

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Active Directory

SQL Server

VMware

Job description

QIX Consulting is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead enterprise architectures for a major banking environment in Sydney. You will shape architectural direction across infrastructure, cloud, on-premise and hybrid solutions and drive governance and certification with senior stakeholders.

The role involves defining concrete designs, ensuring security controls, and coordinating with SMEs, project managers and governance bodies to deliver strategic initiatives.