About the Role
This role offers an excellent career opportunity to work for Australia's Central Bank, supporting the Payments Operations Program which uplifts the operation, IT controls, and governance of a critical payments system. You will promote the public interest by ensuring the reliable, safe, and efficient functioning of national infrastructure essential to the Australian economy.
Responsibilities
- Define solutions architectures, high-level designs, and impact assessments for initiatives and/or systems in the Bank.
- Take ownership of Architecture deliverables for Conceptual and Solution Architecture documents and ensure stakeholder agreement and endorsement.
- Work with analysts to define business requirements and with subject matter experts to develop high-level designs aligned with enterprise architecture, patterns, and practices.
- Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders in scoping initiatives according to architectural objectives and principles.
- Identify and document/call out dependencies with other projects/systems.
- Drive the Architectural Certification process to completion for key project deliverables.
Requirements
- Experience in producing Solution Architectures for complex solutions (including infrastructure, cloud, on-premise, and hybrid solutions).
- Experience in Architecture design that improved controls based on COBIT/ISO 27001 framework.
- Proven background in Software/Infrastructure automation and an understanding of the tools used.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate, influence, and persuade peers and senior stakeholders.
- Understanding of strategic and new/emerging technologies and their practical application.
- Understanding of relevant models, notations, and tools.
- Strong experience in resolving solution design and architecture contentions.
- Sound experience in architectural disciplines across a range of complex projects and technologies.
Skills
- COBIT 2019
- ISO 27001
- Development principles, tools, and frameworks
- Banking or Payment Systems (e.g., SWIFT, NPP, FSS etc.)
- Automation toolsets (e.g., Puppet, Terraform, vRA, Chocolatey, Packer etc.)
- CI/CD toolsets (e.g., Azure DevOps Service, Artifactory, Gitlab etc.)
- Common infrastructure systems (e.g., Active Directory, SQL Server, Sterling, VMWare, SAN etc.)
- Certificate lifecycle management tool (e.g., Venafi, Hashicorp Vault etc.)
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Fixed-Term Contract
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications relevant to the Bank or IT industry
Benefits
- Development and career opportunities
- Collaborative environment
- Support for growth, wellbeing, and flexibility
- Work-life balance
About the Company
- The Reserve Bank of Australia owns and operates RITS, Australia's real-time gross settlement system.
- The RBA supports the Payments Operations Program which is uplifting the operation, IT controls and governance of a payments system that moves around $230 billion dollars between financial institutions each day and ultimately settles all non-cash payments in Australia.
- The RBA promotes the public interest by ensuring the reliable, safe, and efficient functioning of critical national infrastructure, which is essential to support the day-to-day business of the Australian economy.
- Through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking, the RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy.
- We also issue Australia's banknotes and operates infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people.
Equal Opportunity
- The Reserve Bank of Australia is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applications from experienced candidates seeking workplace flexibility.
