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About the Role
The Director of Architecture & Engineering oversees a large distributed technology team supporting CFS’s core investment, superannuation and retirement platforms. This role drives technology transformation, engineering excellence, and customer outcomes while championing AI adoption to improve efficiency, quality, and customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Architecture and Engineering function, providing guidance to Principal Architects and Distinguished Engineers.
- Define and deliver architecture strategy, engineering standards, governance, roadmaps, and best practices aligned to business outcomes.
- Drive AI adoption across engineering teams and platforms, including AI-assisted development and AI-enabled business solutions.
- Ensure scalable, secure, resilient, and compliant technology solutions that meet governance, risk, and regulatory requirements.
- Simplify and modernise platforms through standardisation, automation, reuse, and continuous improvement.
- Build high-performing teams, influence senior stakeholders, and guide strategic technology investment choices.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale Architecture and Engineering functions within complex enterprise environments.
- Strong capability to build, lead and develop high-performing teams, including senior architects and engineering leaders.
- Proven ability to define and execute architecture and engineering strategies aligned to business objectives and technology roadmaps.
- Deep expertise across architecture domains (Domain, Solution and Application Architecture) and modern engineering practices, including automation and DevOps.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to guide executive decision-making and technology investment outcomes.
- Demonstrated success delivering large-scale transformation initiatives while driving simplification, standardisation, innovation, scalability and resilience across technology platforms.
- Strong understanding of financial services, wealth management platforms and regulatory considerations.
- Highly Desirable: Senior technology oversight experience overseeing architecture and engineering teams, including implementation of AI-enabled platforms, AI engineering practices and enterprise AI governance frameworks.
- Highly Desirable: Experience working within public cloud environments such as AWS and/or Azure and partnering with third-party technology vendors and service providers.
- Must have full work rights in Australia.
Skills
- AI adoption
- AI-assisted development
- AI-enabled business solutions
- Scalable solutions
- Secure solutions
- Resilient solutions
- Compliant solutions
- Standardisation
- Automation
- Reuse
- Continuous improvement
- Team leadership
- Stakeholder influence
- Technology investment choices
- Domain Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Application Architecture
- Modern engineering practices
- DevOps
- Financial services
- Wealth management platforms
- Public cloud environments (AWS, Azure)
- Third-party vendor management
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid working model
Experience Level
- Senior technology oversight experience
Benefits
- Additional day for your birthday
- Access to CFS Employer Super
- Life Leave - 3 days per annum
- Access to Sonder (medical, mental health, safety support)
- Access to Corporate rates with BUPA Health Insurance
- Confidential coaching and counselling services
About the Company
- CFS values expertise, passion, and diversity.
- CFS believes that the foundation of its success lies in its exceptional people.
- CFS celebrates individuality, has a passion for high performance, and creates an environment where employees can unleash their full potential.
- CFS people enable the organisation to make a difference and deliver exceptional experiences to help customers achieve financial freedom.
- CFS is committed to creating a thriving environment where individuals can flourish.
- CFS believes that success is built upon strong teams and is dedicated to celebrating uniqueness, championing individuality, and supporting a diverse and inclusive workforce.
- CFS believes that when you can truly be yourself, you can unlock your full potential.
Equal Opportunity
- Background checks (including Police, Employment, Bankruptcy checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons) will be completed prior to the final preferred candidate’s employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not preclude the preferred candidate, however, they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the role.