Solution Architect

Challenger Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Challenger Day

On-site cafe nearby Martin Place

Extra superannuation contributions

Fitness Passport

Job summary

Challenger Limited in Sydney is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead end-to-end architecture across multiple programmes. You will design High Level Solution Architectures, guide delivery teams, and partner with Product Owners and engineers to ensure scalable, governance-compliant outcomes.

This role offers hybrid work with 3 days in-office at Martin Place, enabling close collaboration with external partners and visibility across the enterprise architecture function.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or regulated industries.
• Investment management architecture across platforms and operating models.
• Experience with investment data architectures and integration.
• Hands-on architecture across complex enterprise environments.
• Owns end-to-end solution architecture: business, application, information, integration, infra.
• Proven ability to work in complex delivery environments and SDLC.
• Strong stakeholder communication and ability to guide senior leaders.
• Commercial and architectural judgement, weighing trade-offs.
• Broad knowledge of enterprise technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• Design High Level Solution Architectures (HLSAs) and review designs across programmes.
• Make and document key technology decisions to unblock delivery.
• Partner with Product Owners, engineers and delivery teams to ensure scalable solutions.
• Represent Challenger in technical discussions with external partners.
• Manage technology vendor relationships and partner delivery.
• Identify and manage technical debt and interdependency risks.
• Ensure solutions meet governance, cybersecurity, privacy and data standards.
• Contribute to enterprise architecture direction and reference architectures.
• Participate in Architecture Review Board and governance across designs.

Skills

FinServ domain

Investment management

Investment data integration

End-to-end architecture

SDLC management

Stakeholder communication

Architectural judgement

Enterprise tech knowledge

Education

TOGAF certification

Job description

Solution Architect · Martin Place, Sydney CBD · Hybrid (3 days in-office)

Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $128 billion in assets (as at 31 March 2026). Life with us is fast moving and always exciting. Together we’re driving to deliver our vision to provide our customers with financial security for a better retirement. We achieve this goal by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed.

About the role

Challenger is in the middle of a genuine technology uplift; Several concurrent programmes, external partner integrations, and a modernisation agenda that is generating real architecture work. Not governance for governance's sake. Actual design, actual decisions, actual delivery. We're looking for an end-to-end Solution Architect to join a small architecture function with broad scope and strong visibility. You'll hold context across a portfolio of high-priority initiatives, make decisions that stick, and produce architecture artefacts to a high standard from day one. For the right person, this is a role with real ownership. You’ll be close to the work, close to decision-making, and able to see the impact of your thinking play out across the business.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing and producing High Level Solution Architectures (HLSAs) and review low-level designs across multiple programmes
• Making and documenting key technology decisions that unblock delivery teams and reduce downstream rework
• Partnering with Product Owners, engineers, and delivery teams to keep solutions practical, scalable and aligned to business outcomes
• Representing Challenger in technical discussions with external partners
• Managing technology vendor relationships and keeping partner delivery on track
• Identifying and managing technical debt and interdependency risks across overlapping workstreams
• Ensuring solutions meet governance, cybersecurity, privacy and data standards
• Contributing to the enterprise architecture direction and reference architecture where relevant
• Participating in the Architecture Review Board and supporting governance across solutions, designs and decision

What you’ll bring

• Essential experience in Financial services or other relevant regulated industry experience (medical, defence etc.)
• Investment Management Domain Expertise: Experience delivering solution architecture across investment management platforms and operating models, including portfolio management, trading, custody, investment accounting, and outsourced service providers
• Investment Data & Integration Expertise: Experience in investment data architectures, including integration across investment ecosystems
• Hands-on architecture experience across complex enterprise environments
• End-to-end solution architecture capability; business, application, information, integration, infrastructure and non-functional - you're comfortable owning the whole picture, not just one layer of it
• A track record working across complex delivery environments: SDLC, multiple concurrent initiatives, external technology partners
• Strong stakeholder communication skills - you can translate complexity for non-technical audiences and guide decisions with senior leaders
• Sound commercial and architectural judgement, comfortable weighing trade-offs and making pragmatic calls
• Broad enterprise technology and IT landscape knowledge

Nice to have

• TOGAF certification or equivalent Enterprise architecture experience aligned to technology strategy

Why Challenger?

Working at Challenger means being part of a connected team that enjoys what they do. We’re small enough to move quickly, and big enough to make meaningful change. We support your growth and development, offer flexibility, and value the unique contributions people bring. We provide access to a range of exclusive employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally and a hybrid work environment including.

• Challenger Day - one extra day off every year in recognition of the effort our people make.
• Subsidised on-site café and fantastic central location a stone's throw from Martin Place Metro
• Extra superannuation contributions.
• Access to Fitness Passport

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Challenger's employee value proposition guides how we work: Grow and realise your potential, supporting each other, stronger together and making things happen. Our culture encourages curiosity, considered thinking and meaningful contribution, with opportunities to build a broad and rewarding career. We are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities and ways of thinking can thrive, and promoting flexible working to support work-life balance. Challenger is proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a Family Friendly Workplace and recognised as a Bronze Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), the national benchmark for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion.

Job type: Permanent

Posting Close Date : 16/10/2026

Life at Challenger is fast moving and always exciting. Together we’re driving to deliver our vision to provide our customers with financial security for retirement. Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and perspectives to a workplace which is inclusive, flexible, and driven by our values - act with integrity, aim high, collaborate and think customer. Our environment is one where our passionate teams can thrive. Our people quickly discover that a role at Challenger is much more than just a job. Our working environment is unique and encourages our employees to share their ideas and feel empowered to tackle new opportunities.