Senior Solution Architect | Banking | Sydney
Contract: 1 October ********* March **** | 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 robust 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
Strong 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 **** and ISO ***** 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