Senior Solutions Architect, Payments

Commonwealth BankSydneyHybridFull-time2 weeks ago

Senior Solutions Architect role at CommBank in Sydney, focused on end-to-end solution architecture for domestic, international and high-value payments. Requires strong payments expertise, ISO 20022 knowledge, and architecture experience across APIs, microservices, event-driven and cloud-native (AWS) systems.

What you'll do

Lead end-to-end solution architecture for complex payment initiatives across multiple crews.
Shape Payments domain architecture and translate strategic direction into practical solution designs.
Establish and promote reusable architecture patterns, guardrails and API standards.
Guide engineering and delivery teams to apply architecture standards consistently while making pragmatic trade-offs across cost, risk, resilience, performance and delivery.
Design secure, scalable and highly available solutions that meet resilience, risk and regulatory expectations.
Own significant architecture decisions from concept through delivery, ensuring architectural intent is maintained as solutions evolve.
Engage deeply with engineers and technical leads, challenge designs constructively and translate architecture into implementable patterns.
Design for operability, observability, recoverability and production resilience.
Identify practical opportunities for generative and agentic AI across the Payments technology landscape.
Produce clear architecture artefacts and drive effective decisions through architecture and governance forums.
Partner across enterprise architecture, engineering, security, risk, product and business teams to turn complex requirements into practical, future-ready solutions.

What you need

Must-have

ISO 20022APIsMicroservicesEvent-driven systemsCloud-native solutionsAWSIntegration patternsSecurity

Soft skills

InfluenceClarityTechnical credibilityCommunicationProblem simplificationNavigating ambiguityManaging competing prioritiesCuriosity

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