Join a leading FS AI product vendor delivering complex, cloud-native platforms across banking and financial services.

This is a senior Solutions Architect role for someone with strong financial services experience and deep technical capability across modern application architecture, Kubernetes and enterprise integration.

You’ll own solution architecture across complex banking environments, working across engineering, product and senior technology stakeholders to define how enterprise platforms are designed, integrated, deployed and scaled.

What you’ll be doing

- Designing end-to-end solution architectures for complex financial services environments.
- Leading architecture across cloud-native and containerised application deployments.
- Designing and supporting Kubernetes-based environments across enterprise banking infrastructure.
- Defining integration patterns across APIs, event-driven architecture and distributed systems.
- Translating functional and non-functional requirements into scalable technical designs.
- Providing architectural direction to engineering and delivery teams.
- Working with senior technology stakeholders to agree architecture, deployment and integration approaches.
- Identifying and mitigating technical risks across complex implementations.
- Supporting major technical opportunities with solution design and architecture input.
- Acting as a senior technical escalation point across delivery.

What we’re looking for Strong Financial Services experience is essential.



You’ll understand the complexity of delivering enterprise technology within banking or similarly regulated FS environments.

You’ll ideally bring:

- 10+ years’ experience across enterprise software and technology environments.
- 5+ years’ experience in Solution Architecture or technical design roles.
- Strong experience within banking or broader Financial Services.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes and containerised application architecture.
- Experience designing highly available, scalable enterprise platforms.
- Strong cloud architecture experience, ideally AWS.
- API and integration architecture experience including REST and GraphQL.
- Experience with event-driven and distributed technologies such as Kafka and Spark.
- Strong understanding of Java-based enterprise applications.
- Linux / Unix environments.
- Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
- Experience with application servers such as JBoss, WebSphere or WildFly.
- Experience working across Agile engineering environments.

Experience within AML, financial crime, fraud or RegTech would be advantageous, but is not essential.

The opportunity You’ll join an established FS AI product vendor building sophisticated technology used within major financial institutions.

The role has significant architectural ownership and sits at the intersection of banking technology, cloud-native engineering and enterprise software.

For someone coming from a strong FS architecture background, it offers the chance to work on complex Kubernetes-based platforms while gaining exposure to AI-driven AML and financial crime technology.

📌 Senior Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Melbourne)
🏢 Anson McCade
📍 Melbourne