Key Responsibilities & Operational Scope

• Lead and steer and contribute to business-critical projects, ensuring the quality of architecture and engineering from initial concept through to implementation.
• Execute and drive 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.
• Execute and drive 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.

Candidate Profile & Required Qualifications

• 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.
• 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 Macquarie Offers

• Market-Leading Rewards: Competitive base remuneration supplemented by performance-linked incentive programs.
• Flexible Work Frameworks: Modern hybrid working arrangements supporting professional productivity and personal balance.
• Professional Development: Clear internal mobility pathways, technical skill enhancement, and professional accreditation support.
• Comprehensive Wellbeing: Access to employee assistance programs, holistic healthcare coverage, and dedicated wellbeing initiatives.
• Global Network & Impact: Collaborative engagement with cross-border teams across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific regions.

Core Competencies & Key Technical Focus