Senior Solution Architect - FinOps & Payments (Remote)

Employment Hero; Sydney; Remote; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

AI tools

ESOP (Employee Share Options)

Parental leave

Home office allowance

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

Employment Hero is seeking a Solution Architect to design and lead money-movement, payroll and financial services integrations in a remote-first environment. You will influence engineering, product, and business decisions while ensuring secure, scalable and compliant solutions.

You will collaborate with partners and internal teams to drive architectural choices, guide delivery across markets, and mentor engineers in a multi-tenant SaaS setting, including exposure to AFSL-related workflows and

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing or operating money-movement systems with responsibility for financial correctness and production outcomes.
• Experience as Solutions Architect, Staff or Principal Engineer, or comparable senior technical role.
• Strong knowledge of payment lifecycles, ledger design, and reconciliation in reliable financial services.
• Experience with payment, banking or card-issuing partners and cross-rail integrations.
• Solid software engineering background with ability to reason about implementation choices.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design across money movement, superannuation clearing and related financial services and connections to HR, payroll and external partners.
• Provide architectural consultation to engineering and product teams to evaluate options and inform decisions.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into practical designs balancing reliability, security, scalability, cost and delivery priorities.
• Guide architecture of payment processing, ledger and reconciliation capabilities for the financial lifecycle.
• Collaborate with payment, banking and financial services partners to assess capabilities and integration approaches across markets.
• Work with Security, Risk, Compliance, Legal and Finance to ensure solutions meet obligations and assurance requirements.
• Partner with engineering teams to review designs and contribute hands-on where valuable.
• Guide service performance and resilience requirements and production readiness for demand growth.
• Develop architecture documentation and build business cases for significant technical initiatives.
• Coach and mentor engineers and share reusable patterns across the organisation.

Skills

Money movement systems

Solutions Architect

Payment lifecycles

Cloud architecture

Security & compliance

Communication & influencing

AFSL experience

Ruby/Rails experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ruby/Rails

PostgreSQL

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Employment Hero is seeking a Solution Architect to design and lead money-movement, payroll and financial services integrations in a remote-first environment. You will influence engineering, product, and business decisions while ensuring secure, scalable and compliant solutions.

You will collaborate with partners and internal teams to drive architectural choices, guide delivery across markets, and mentor engineers in a multi-tenant SaaS setting, including exposure to AFSL-related workflows and