Platform Architect - Adviser Online

Join our Adviser Online Platform team and play a key role in the engineering delivery of Macquarie Wrap, one of the largest investment platforms in Australia. As a leading Digital Bank, we are dedicated to designing and delivering delightful, personalised, and secure experiences for the advisers and intermediaries who manage their clients' wealth accounts and portfolios through our platform. You will work closely with business experts to understand their needs and collaborate with high-performing engineers to develop technically excellent solutions that form the backbone of our Adviser offering.

We are a group of passionate technologists who operate in an autonomous environment where we are empowered to “do it right.” We thrive in software delivery and are excited about using leading-edge technology on a multi-cloud platform to solve complex problems across Wealth Management, covering portfolio reporting, search, transacting, and financial planning integration.

Join us on our mission to be Australia’s #1 Digital Bank.

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

You will lead and contribute to business-critical projects, ensuring the quality of architecture and engineering from initial concept through to implementation. You will design and build clean, efficient, robust, and secure solutions that align with our business goals and future-state architecture. As part of a team that owns the solution end-to-end, you will also share responsibility for improving quality, driving innovation, and delivering impactful outcomes.

With experience in a similar architecture and engineering leadership role, you will have an agile mindset and an impressive track record in building customer-focused software solutions. To be successful, you should be a bold, collaborative, and empathetic architect with a strong commercial focus and a continuous learning mindset. You will engage with business heads to understand and influence strategy while actively keeping your knowledge of emerging technologies and wealth/advice industry trends up to date.

What You Offer

• Proven software engineering experience in designing, implementing, and managing digital omni-channel financial service solutions.
• Deeply conversant with cloud-native applications, modern integrations strategies( and their implications) and experience in optimising/refactoring technology platforms.
• A critical thinker with a solid understanding of how to build scalable, maintainable, and high-performance platforms.
• Relevant experience leading software implementation and a solid understanding of how to drive modern engineering practices while fostering collaboration.
• The ability to articulate complex technical problems and their solutions simply to senior product and technology stakeholders across the organisation.
• Ability to understand and anticipate business needs to provide appropriate architecture guidance and participate in the architecture assurance of solution designs in your domain.
• Knowledge of solution and data architecture frameworks, modelling tools, and data security principles relevant to the financial services and payments industry.
• A desire to contribute to a strong architecture community and actively participate in the improvement of the broader architecture practice.
• A Financial Services or FinTech background is highly desirable; however, we are open to candidates from other sectors with strong experience in building transactional, high-volume platforms.

What We Offer

Benefits

At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for non-primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Banking and Financial Services

Banking and Financial Services is our technology-driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential - whether that’s buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.

Inclusion at Macquarie

We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.

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