Product business with the client facing work you enjoyReal breadth across sales, delivery and ongoing client success$225-$230k + SuperAbout the CompanyOur client is a global SaaS business providing a cloud native banking platform to banks and financial institutions worldwide.
Backed by significant scale and a flat, fast moving culture, they are now growing across Australia and New Zealand from a Sydney CBD base.About the RoleSitting between clients and engineering, the Solution Architect leads technical design through implementation and supports the sales phase.
You will work with client stakeholders, SI partners and an Australian engineering team of 20 to 25, translating business requirements into technical direction.
Travel across Australia and Recent Zealand is required.Duties / Key ResponsibilitiesLead technical design through the implementation phase, working alongside client engineering leads and SI partners on estates that range from greenfield builds to systems 30 and 40 years oldSit in the room with client engineers on the technical detail, using API specifications, sequence diagrams and documentation, then carry that back to the internal engineering teamMove between audiences in the same day, explaining to senior business stakeholders what can and cannot be done, why, and what the workable alternative looks likeSupport the sales phase with the Business Development team, uncovering client requirements and shaping what a solution looks likeDocument scope and roadmap decisions,



and feed client requirements back into the product roadmap with Product Owners and engineeringSkills and ExperienceA consulting background is essential.
Senior manager level in a consultancy, or equivalent client facing delivery experience within a SaaS businessEnd to end solution architecture across the software delivery lifecycle, with enough technical depth to engage engineers at a low level on API specifications, webhooks, data and cloudSoftware service design and integration experience, including RESTful APIs, OpenAPI specification and sequence diagramsCloud infrastructure and large scale cloud applicationsProven ability to shift communication style between detailed technical conversation with engineers and business language with senior stakeholders, and to build those senior relationshipsComfortable taking the whiteboard in a room of people you have not met and giving directionThis is not a hands on coding role, and it is not an enterprise architecture role.
It sits between the two, close enough to the detail to be credible with engineers without owning the keyboardNice to have: retail, business or core banking, card processing or payments experience, delivery of core banking or large scale digital transformation programmes, commercial acumen and business case experience, and knowledge of financial regulationsComfortable travelling nationally and internationally
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📌 Solution Architect (Sydney)
🏢 Allura Partners
📍 Sydney