LeavePlus has embarked on the transformational process to become the leading digital regulator and administrator of an employee entitlement scheme. Utilising cutting-edge data and digital solutions, we're streamlining, automating, and elevating our processes. By harnessing technological advancements and refining our systems, we're committed to delivering a unique user experience for both our members and our team, as we regulate and administer long service leave to our building and construction industry members.
We're dedicated to empowering our workforce through continuous learning and professional development, recognising that they are the driving force behind our transformative initiatives. Play a pivotal role in shaping our future as critical thinkers, innovators, and modern regulators.
The Platform Architect will set the architectural vision, lead the architectural team, and ensure a cohesive architecture across all levels. This role involves selecting technologies, ensuring system integration, and aligning the platform with business objectives.
Job Description Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Platform Architecture Development: Defining the architectural vision and roadmap for a financial services-grade platform is essential, ensuring compliance with industry regulations such as APRA and PCI DSS. The design must support multi-product capabilities, enabling seamless onboarding of new products and building scalability into the platform to accommodate future growth, including the ability to offer Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions to other organizations. Leadership and Team Coordination: Leading architecture discussions and decision forums will be a key part of this role. Mentoring the team in best practices for financial-grade system architecture, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance, is vital. Collaboration with stakeholders to align technical architecture with product strategies and market needs is also essential. Platform Integration and Interoperability: Evaluating, selecting, and integrating SaaS solutions to complement the financial ecosystem, ensuring interoperability with core banking and financial systems, is required. Technical Oversight and Governance: Establishing and enforcing architectural standards that meet financial services-grade requirements, including rigorous risk assessments and audit trails, is necessary. Performance Optimization and Scalability: Ensuring the platform delivers real-time performance and low latency, which are critical for financial services operations, is essential. Innovation and Future-Proofing: Researching and adopting cutting-edge financial technology trends, such as blockchain, AI-driven analytics, and real-time payments, is crucial. Designing the platform to support multi-tenant architectures, enabling future scalability as a PaaS offering, is required. Delivery Management: Collaborating with delivery leads to ensure delivery aligns with product launch timelines and transformation program strategic goals is essential. Leading and coordinating the architectural squad and defining work to ensure on-time delivery of secure, compliant, and high-performance solutions is necessary. Stakeholder Engagement: Serving as a trusted advisor, translating technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders to understand the technology architecture, is vital. Presenting architecture plans, compliance updates, and scalability strategies to the executive leadership and external clients is part of the role. Incorporating feedback from product teams, regulatory bodies, and end-users to continuously refine the platform is also essential. Security and Risk Management: Working with security teams to architect and build a zero-trust architecture with advanced security measures, including data encryption, fraud detection, and secure key management, is crucial. Ensuring adherence to regulatory best practice standards such as Australian Privacy Principles (APP), ISO27001 defined in the scope of the Information Security Management System (ISMS), and taking relevant guidance from financial service regulations (e.g., APRA, AML/CTF) is necessary. Preparing for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): Architecting the platform for multi-tenant scalability, enabling secure and customizable services for external organizations, is required. Developing frameworks to manage data partitioning, tenant isolation, and individual regulatory compliance for PaaS clients is essential. Desired Skills and Experience Skills and Experience:
Proven experience in platform architecture, enterprise architecture, or a similar role Experience with member focused platforms. Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Experience with data architecture, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and data pipelines. Qualifications:
A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and expert knowledge of cloud platforms and microservices architecture. Application Process: To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and why you are the ideal candidate for this role. We look forward to reviewing your application and potentially welcoming you to our team at LeavePlus.
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