Senior Solution Architect | Banking | Sydney

Contract: 1 October 2026 – 31 March 2027 | Immediate Start

QIX Consulting is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to join a major banking environment in Sydney.

This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned architect with strong experience delivering complex enterprise solution architectures across infrastructure, cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, analysts, SMEs and project teams to shape architectural direction and drive solutions through governance and certification.

The Role

- Define solution architectures, high-level designs and impact assessments for key initiatives and systems
- Own Conceptual and Solution Architecture deliverables from development through stakeholder endorsement
- Translate business requirements into scalable, secure and practical architectural solutions
- Work with SMEs to develop high-level designs aligned with enterprise architecture standards, patterns and principles
- Partner with Project Managers to appropriately scope initiatives and identify architectural dependencies
- Drive the Architectural Certification process through to completion
- Identify and document dependencies across projects, platforms and systems
- Resolve complex solution design and architecture contentions
- Ensure appropriate security and control considerations are incorporated into architecture designs

Mandatory Requirements

- Robust experience as a Solution Architect / Senior Solution Architect within complex enterprise environments
- Proven experience producing Solution Architectures covering infrastructure, cloud, on-premise and hybrid solutions




- Experience within Banking, Financial Services and/or Payment Systems, including exposure to technologies such as SWIFT, NPP or FSS
- Strong understanding of COBIT 2019 and ISO 27001 security/control frameworks
- Experience across common enterprise infrastructure technologies including Active Directory, SQL Server, VMware, SAN and Sterling
- Strong understanding of software and infrastructure automation and associated tooling
- Experience with automation technologies such as Terraform, Puppet, vRA, Chocolatey and/or Packer
- Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Azure DevOps, Artifactory and GitLab
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience resolving complex architecture and solution design challenges

Nice to Have

- TOGAF certification or strong TOGAF knowledge
- Experience with certificate lifecycle management technologies such as Venafi and HashiCorp

Vault

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in IT, Technology or a related discipline
- Exposure to emerging technologies and their practical application within large enterprise environments
- Strong understanding of architecture models, notations, governance and associated tooling

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to work on complex, business-critical architecture initiatives within a major banking environment, with exposure across payments, infrastructure, cloud, security, automation and enterprise technology.

QIX Consulting is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

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📌 Senior Solution Architect (New South Wales)
🏢 QIX Consulting Group
📍 New South Wales