NPP Domain Architect

The Game Changers:

At AP+ we're changing the game! We're doing big things, and we can't do it alone. We're part of a big ecosystem, and we know teamwork and passion for our purpose is what will make us successful. We value the unique talents, perspectives, of all our employees. This includes people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, First Nations Peoples, people of all abilities and diverse backgrounds, as well as their families. AP+ brings together Australia’s three domestic payment providers, BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia, into one integrated entity. Bringing these businesses together enables AP+ to create a more competitive and coordinated Australian payments organisation that is strategically placed to respond to the impacts of regulatory and technological change today, and into the future.

The Purpose:

This role is responsible for providing payment architecture expertise and governance for developing and enhancing the payment designs for the various products across the AP+, including Scheme product portfolios (including NPP and eftpos) and well as payment experiences (including digital wallet and QR). Role will make a valuable contribution towards defining scalable designs for the Australian payments landscape and enabling user experiences for the relevant payment products and services.

You will be responsible for:

• Co-designing and delivering the strategic reference architecture and roadmap that aligns to evolving business strategy, product strategy and enterprise architecture
• Provide thought leadership and drive the business, product and technology innovation agenda for payments
• Collaborate with product leadership across multiple lines of business to define a practical delivery roadmap that makes use of common capabilities where appropriate
• Provide guidance on application and solution architecture, engineering principles, and implementation of digital applications using existing and emerging technology platforms
• Manage pragmatic trade-offs between spend to market, quality, financial and commercial impacts
• Perform architecture assurance of solution designs to ensure architectural and engineering quality
• Develop standards, patterns, and best practice for reuse and acceleration
• Ensure that all payment solutions are aligned with AP+ risk, security, data management and operational principles
• Contribute to the broader AP+ architecture community and actively participate in the improvement of the architecture and engineering practice
• Represent AP+ at various payment industry peak bodies and provide input to future scheme uplifts

In order for you to be successful in the role, you'll have:

• At least 10-12 years of information technology experiences.
• 5+ years working in payments solution and technology teams.
• 5 years working technology leadership capacity.
• Experience with payment vendor applications (e.g. FIS , Swift and PayTec)
• A software architecture background with a strong appreciation of integration architecture.
• Deep knowledge of at least one payment scheme.
• Familiar with SWIFT ISO20022 and AS.2805 data dictionary and data governance.
• Expert knowledge of API development standards, micro-services and event driven IT architecture.
• Expert knowledge of building highly resilient multi-cloud solutions and deployment architecture options.
• Expert knowledge in modern design patterns and blueprinting practices.
• Strong knowledge of data exploitation and concepts.
• Strong knowledge of security, control, privacy and compliance in the financial services/payments domain.
• Strong knowledge of agile development experiences.