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About the Role

As a Data Architect at AP+, you will help shape how data is designed, governed, and used across the technology that supports Australia’s payments ecosystem. You will translate complex business and information needs into practical, secure, and scalable data architectures, providing expert guidance across data modeling, integration, and solution design. You will work across technology and business teams to ensure our data platforms, standards, and architecture decisions enable reliable delivery today while positioning AP+ for advanced analytics, AI, and the data products of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Shape and evolve AP+’s data architecture, developing secure, scalable, and reliable data solutions that align with enterprise strategy and support evolving business needs.
• Lead data architecture and design across complex initiatives, translating business objectives and information requirements into coherent conceptual, logical, and physical data designs.
• Establish and embed data architecture standards and governance, ensuring security, privacy, quality, and architectural principles are consistently applied across solutions.
• Provide authoritative technical leadership, guiding decisions across data modeling, integration, platform design, and architecture while assessing options, risks, and trade-offs.
• Enable the evolution of AP+’s modern data platforms, helping create the architecture required to support advanced analytics, AI-driven insights, and modern data products.
• Build trusted partnerships across business and technology, simplifying complex data concepts, facilitating architecture decisions, and identifying opportunities to create greater value from data.

Requirements

• Significant Data Architecture experience, with a minimum of seven years.
• Experience within payments, banking, or financial services is ideal.
• Proven experience designing enterprise data platforms within AWS and Snowflake.
• Experience designing architecture that enables advanced analytics, AI-driven analysis, and modern data products.
• Strong data modeling and solution design expertise.
• Experience translating complex and sometimes ambiguous requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data architectures.
• Strong technical knowledge across the modern data stack, including SQL, ETL, CI/CD pipelines, and Snowflake.
• Exposure to analytics and visualization tools such as Power BI.
• Exposure to ML-based analysis.
• Demonstrated architecture leadership and influencing skills.
• Ability to evaluate complex design options, manage architectural risk, and provide credible specialist advice to technical and business stakeholders.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent professional experience in data, information systems, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Architecture or data management certification would be advantageous.

Skills

• Data Architecture
• Data Modeling
• Solution Design
• Data Integration
• Enterprise Data Platforms
• AWS
• Snowflake
• Advanced Analytics
• AI
• Data Products
• SQL
• ETL
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Power BI
• ML-based analysis
• Architecture Leadership
• Risk Management

Experience Level

• Minimum of seven years

Education Level

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent professional experience
• Architecture or data management certification would be advantageous

About the Company

• AP+ is one connected team in pursuit of one inspiring purpose – to unite people and technology to power better experiences.
• We are driven by our core values: lead with heart, learn for tomorrow and live our legacy.
• At AP+, we believe in the power of passion, pride, and purpose.
• Our team is driven by a shared mission to make a difference in the world of payments, and we're proud to work together towards this common goal.

Equal Opportunity

• We want to remove all barriers to inclusion so if you need advice or support with your application, we’re here to help.
• We also encourage you to let us know your pronouns at any point during the recruitment process.