Senior Solution Architect, Digital

Beyond Bank Australia; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 extra paid work-life balance days

Volunteer days for community programs

Employee discounts and wellbeing perks

Flexible, diverse working environment

Career development and coaching

Job summary

Beyond Bank is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to own the target-state architecture for its member-facing digital channels, including mobile and internet banking and digital onboarding. You will act as the Digital domain's design authority, shaping patterns, standards, and delivery approaches.

You will design scalable, secure digital solutions using modern patterns (API-led, microservices, cloud-native) and govern identity, access management, and security controls, collaborating with

Qualifications

• Experience as a Solution Architect in Australian banking, mutual, or regulated financial services.
• Deep architectural expertise across modern front end and mobile stacks, especially React/React Native, with API, identity, integration and cloud design on Azure.
• Strong understanding of digital banking, member authentication, payments, regulatory obligations, cyber security, and operational resilience.
• Tertiary qualification in IT/Engineering/CS; architecture certifications highly regarded.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills with the ability to translate complex concepts into practical outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the target-state architecture for the bank's member-facing digital channels (mobile, internet, digital onboarding).
• Act as the single design authority for the Digital domain, setting architecture patterns and standards.
• Design scalable, secure digital solutions using API-led, microservices, event-driven, cloud-native patterns.
• Define and govern identity and access management capabilities (auth, authorization, MFA, biometrics).
• Translate strategic objectives into architecture roadmaps, designs, and delivery outcomes.
• Lead digital integrations with core banking systems, third-party providers, and engagement platforms.
• Ensure regulatory, security, accessibility, and resilience requirements are met.

Skills

Solution Architecture

React

React Native

Azure

API-led Architecture

Security & Compliance

Education

Relevant IT/Engineering/CS degree

Tools

Microsoft Azure

APIs & Integration

Identity & Access Management

Job description

Work from any of our corporate offices across Australia.

Full time (75 hours per fortnight)

12 Month Fixed term contract

Hybrid work arrangements

Beyond Bank is one of Australia's largest, 100% member-owned mutual banks with a credit union heritage. We provide personal, business and community banking to more than 300,000 members and operate over 50 branches nationally.

Our vision is to create better lives by caring for our members and communities.

Beyond Bank is a Certified B Corp, meeting high standards of social and environmental impact. We are proud to use our business to drive positive outcomes that benefit our members, communities and people.

Our values of Member Obsession, Empowering Communities, Shared Ambition and Championing Sustainability are integral to all that we do and are the standards to which we hold ourselves. The way we work is also demonstrated by the behaviours that we are accountable to uphold: Own It, Call it Out, Be Respectful, Bring Your A Game, Make A Difference and Right Things Right Way.

Job Description

The role

The Senior Solution Architect is a senior design authority within Beyond Bank's architecture practice. This role is assigned to the Digital domain, where it owns the target-state architecture across mobile banking, internet banking, digital origination, public web platforms, and the identity, content, integration and personalisation capabilities that support them. Working closely with Product, Digital, Technology, and business stakeholders, this role governs end-to-end digital solutions that deliver exceptional member experiences while ensuring security, resilience, scalability, regulatory compliance, and alignment with Beyond Bank’s strategic objectives. Drawing on deep expertise in digital architecture, the role provides leadership from concept through to delivery, establishing standards, guiding architectural decisions, and driving the evolution of the Bank’s digital channels and capabilities.

In this role, you will

• Own and maintain the target-state architecture for Beyond Bank’s member-facing digital channels, including mobile banking, internet banking, public websites, and digital onboarding and origination journeys.
• Act as the single design authority for the Digital domain, setting the architecture, patterns and standards that engineering teams build to, and retaining ownership of the design through delivery.
• Design scalable, secure and resilient digital solutions using modern architectural patterns including API-led, microservices, event-driven, cloud-native and backend-for-frontend approaches, including how journeys degrade gracefully when a dependency is unavailable.
• Define and govern customer identity and access management capabilities, including authentication, authorisation, MFA, biometrics, session management, and digital security controls.
• Partner with Product, Digital Experience, Engineering, and business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into architecture roadmaps, solution designs, and delivery outcomes.
• Lead the design of digital integrations with core banking systems, third-party providers, content platforms, personalisation capabilities, and member engagement solutions.
• Ensure digital platforms meet regulatory, security, accessibility, and operational resilience requirements, including CPS 230, CPS 234, privacy obligations, and banking industry standards.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts, decision records, and governance documentation, while providing thought leadership, mentoring, and guidance to delivery teams throughout implementation.

Qualifications

About you

You are an experienced Solution Architect with a passion for secure, modern digital solutions and a proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive successful outcomes.

• Demonstrated experience as a Solution Architect within an Australian banking, mutual, or other regulated financial services environment, with deep expertise in digital channel architecture.
• Deep architectural expertise across modern front end and mobile stacks, in particular React and React Native, setting the patterns and standards for in-house engineering teams, together with API, identity, integration and cloud solution design on Microsoft Azure.
• Strong understanding of digital banking, member authentication, payments, regulatory obligations, cyber security, and operational resilience requirements.
• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, with architecture certifications highly regarded.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and business audiences and translate complex concepts into practical outcomes.

See yourself in our team

You will be joining a small architecture team working across the Bank's technology estate, where architects own their designs from concept through to delivery, working directly with engineering and with business and product stakeholders.

Additional Information

Why work for Beyond Bank?

We welcome candidates that reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate. We actively encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people living with disability, LGBTQIA+ as well as culturally diverse community members to apply for our roles.

Beyond Bank is committed to creating an accessible recruitment process and employment experience. If you identify as a person living with disability and require adjustments to our online application, recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, or modifications for accessibility to our locations, please contact us at [e-mail]

And there’s even more benefits:

• Additional 3 paid work-life balance days
• Paid community volunteer days to support many community charities across Australia
• Access to employee discounts, health and wellbeing initiatives, employee and family assistance, plus more
• A flexible, and diverse working environment
• Career development opportunities, training and coaching

By joining Beyond Bank, you will have the opportunity to work alongside talented professionals who will support and encourage you to achieve your full potential. If you are passionate about people and want to make a difference, we would love to hear from you.

What does our recruitment process look like?

The process can include a phone screen, video interview, virtual or face-to-face interview, psychometric testing, and all relevant background checking. Some positions may require undergoing 4 weeks of mandatory full training.

Applications close midnight 20/09/2025