Senior Solutions Architect

Most senior architecture roles in Australian financial markets sit in a Sydney tower. This one doesn’t have to. We’re looking for a hands on Senior Solutions Architect to shape the platforms behind equities trading, clearing and settlement across Australia based in Perth, Sydney Melbourne or Brisbane.You’ll own the design of our biggest solutions from start to finish, act as technical lead for one of our engineering teams, guide several more through delivery, and still write code. If you want national scale, regulated and genuinely complex work without relocating to get it, read on.About FinClearFinClear provides the technology and infrastructure that brokers, advisers and wealth platforms rely on to trade, clear and settle for their investors.Our Solutions Architecture team turns Enterprise Architecture direction into designs that engineering teams can build. We run an AI first engineering model: architects use AI for design, documentation and code review, and nobody here has stopped coding.What you'll doDesign the solution. Take a problem set by Enterprise Architecture, work with product owners to draw out the functional and quality requirements, and design something secure, scalable and buildable.Lead a team technically. Act as technical lead for an engineering team. Set its technical direction, break work down and guide how it’s built, make the call on design decisions, unblock engineers and hold the bar on code quality.Estimate it. Give Enterprise Architecture and programme management estimates they can plan and prioritise against.Lead it through delivery. Work daily with the technical leads of the other teams involved, sequence delivery with programme management, and manage dependencies and interface risk between teams.Stay hands on. Review code, build prototypes where they help, and use AI tooling to move faster on design, documentation and review.Govern it. Lead and take part in Architecture Review Board sessions, and help build the reference patterns and standards other teams use.Keep it safe, fast and compliant. Make sure solutions meet FinClear’s security, performance and regulatory requirements, and take part in security reviews and performance testing.Work with partners. Collaborate with vendors and third-party teams to design and deliver integrated solutions.Grow people. Mentor engineers and testers across the teams you work with.What you'll bring10+ years building enterprise backend systems in Java or an equivalent language, with strong experience in microservices, REST and gRPC APIs, event-driven design, and messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ and SQS5+ years building web solutions in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS, ideally with React or Next.jsAt least 2 years as a technical lead or architect, both leading a team day to day and accountable for large solutions delivered by several teams at onceDeep hands-on AWS experience across EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS, Route 53 and the services around themSolid data skills in PostgreSQL, SQL and Redis, and in designing data access patterns for distributed systemsA track record of estimating complex work accurately and managing dependencies and trade-offs across technical leadsConfidence explaining designs to engineers, executives and external partners alikeA degree in Computer Science, IT or a related field, or equivalent professional experienceNice to haveFinancial markets, trading, clearing or investment platform experience. If you’ve come from another regulated industry banking, payments, insurance, energy or resources we’d still like to hear from you.AWS Solutions Architect certification at Associate or Professional levelRegular use of AI assisted development tools such as Claude Code or GitHub CopilotExperience working with technology vendors and third-party development teamsWhy this roleReal scale and real stakes. The systems you design move money and shares for investors across Australia, in a market where correctness and uptime are not optional.Lead, don’t just advise. You’ll be technical lead for your own team as well as shaping the work of others, so you see your designs through to production with engineers you know well.Architecture with your hands still on the keyboard. You won’t be pushed into slideware our model expects architects to code, and our AI tooling makes that practical at senior level.Breadth. Application, data, infrastructure, security, vendor integration and public APIs all land on your desk.Influence. You’ll sit on the Architecture Review Board and help set the patterns the rest of engineering builds on.If you’re in Perth. Senior financial markets architecture roles are rare outside the east coast, and many Perth architects end up in resources or government by default. This is a chance to do national financial markets work without moving. The two-to-three-hour time difference works in your favour, giving you quiet, focused afternoons once the east coast has logged off.If you’re in Melbourne or Brisbane. You get the same scope and seniority as a Sydney role, on the same clock or close to it, without the Sydney commute!How to applyApply with your CV and a short note, a few paragraphs, about the most complex solution you’ve designed that was delivered by multiple teams. Tell us what made it hard and what you’d do differently.We’re reviewing applications as they arrive.Please note you must have the right to legally work in Australia, sponsorship options are not available at this time.