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About the Role

As Head of Systems Architecture, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technology that underpins Australia’s payments ecosystem. You will lead a team of architects and domain specialists, setting the architectural direction for critical payment platforms while remaining close to solution design and delivery. This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and strong leadership to translate business priorities into secure, resilient, and scalable technology outcomes. You will influence the evolution of Australia's important payments infrastructure, working across NPP, eftpos, and BPAY, and partnering with senior leaders, engineering teams, and strategic partners.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop the Systems Architecture function, building a high-performing team of architects and domain specialists across AP+’s payment ecosystems, including NPP, eftpos and BPAY.
Set the architectural direction for AP+’s payment platforms, developing target-state architectures, principles, standards and patterns aligned with business and technology strategy.
Own end-to-end solution architecture across complex initiatives, providing technical leadership from early-stage concept and feasibility through design, delivery and production deployment.
Shape secure, resilient and scalable technology solutions, balancing business outcomes with technical quality, operational resilience, performance and long-term maintainability.
Partner across Engineering, Delivery, Infrastructure and Operations, resolving complex technical challenges and ensuring solutions are operationally ready and successfully delivered.
Influence senior stakeholders and strategic partners, translating complex technology considerations into clear options and decisions that support AP+’s priorities and the future evolution of its payment platforms.

Requirements

Extensive experience in Solution and Systems Architecture, with demonstrated technical and people leadership across large, complex technology environments.
Proven experience designing and implementing Account-to-Account and Card scheme architectures, ideally within payments, banking or financial services.
Deep architecture expertise combined with broad technical knowledge, spanning architecture principles and patterns through to applications, databases, networks, infrastructure and DevOps.
Demonstrated experience designing large and complex systems, evaluating architecture options, dependencies, risks and trade-offs while balancing functional and non-functional requirements.
Strong stakeholder leadership and influencing capability, with the ability to operate credibly from executive conversations through to detailed technical discussions and build alignment across internal teams, partners and suppliers.

Skills

Systems Architecture
Solution Architecture
Technical Leadership
People Leadership
Account-to-Account Architecture
Card Scheme Architecture
Payments
Banking
Financial Services
Architecture Principles
Architecture Patterns
Applications
Databases
Networks
Infrastructure
DevOps
Stakeholder Management
Influencing

Location

Australia

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Extensive experience in Solution and Systems Architecture
Demonstrated technical and people leadership across large, complex technology environments
Proven experience designing and implementing Account-to-Account and Card scheme architectures
Deep architecture expertise combined with broad technical knowledge
Demonstrated experience designing large and complex systems
Strong stakeholder leadership and influencing capability

Education Level

Relevant tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related discipline
Architecture certification such as TOGAF or Zachman would be advantageous

About the Company

We are one connected team in pursuit of one inspiring purpose – to unite people and technology to power better experiences.
We’re 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.