The Pepperstone story started in 2010. We know what it’s like to trade the world’s markets. Our team describes us as a place for the curious and the driven, and we like to do things a little differently; as a transformative global fintech we’re digital, nimble, connected, and united in our vision to create a better way to trade.

We thrive on progress – for our clients and for ourselves. Our organisational culture is ever-evolving, vibrant, diverse, global and results focused. You’ll find our 700+ team across 12 regions and 9 time zones.

The Role
Our Solution Architect is part of a growing architecture capability at Pepperstone. You will be responsible for translating business requirements into cohesive, pragmatic and value-driven solutions. You will drive the technical direction of our value streams by balancing business goals with sound architecture principles, patterns and pragmatic design, ensuring safe, aligned value delivery in a fast-moving dynamic environment.

You will lead technical discovery workshops, facilitate collaborative design sessions, drive critical architecture decisions, and use your hard-earned collaborative skills to enable others via mentorship and guidance.

As part of the broader Enterprise Architecture team, you will have the opportunity to contribute to our current and target state architectures, principles, patterns and processes as we grow our capability and influence.

We are building our AI capability across the business, using the latest tech to add value where it matters. Bring your skills and learn some more along the way!

This position reports to the Head of Enterprise Architecture, Melbourne Australia. Our team is made up of individuals from all walks of life, each bringing unique experiences and perspectives that enrich our work and culture. We truly value this diversity and are excited to welcome someone who is open-minded, adaptable, and enthusiastic about collaborating in a globally connected and inclusive environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Architecture & Design
• Create solutions that meet business needs and align to strategic direction
• Lead architecture discovery for new or proposed initiatives
• Perform Architecture Impact Assessments to ascertain architectural significance and impact
• Drive key architecture decisions at solution and enterprise level
• Develop architecture patterns, principles and other guardrails
• Contribute to current and target state architecture development and roadmaps

• Collaboration
• The Solution Architect will work closely with:
• Engineering teams to guide technical implementation
• Product Managers to align with product vision
• Business stakeholders to guide decision-making and elicit requirements
• Other architects to ensure alignment

About You

• Experience
• 8+ years software development experience
• 5+ years architecture experience, ideally within banking or fintech.
• Experience within CFD and/or Crypto highly desirable
• Proven track record of architecting valuable solutions in a fast-paced environment
• Experience driving difficult architecture decisions to an agreed outcome.

• Technical skills
• Cloud-native application and infrastructure design
• Architecture modeling and capability mapping
• C4 modeling 
• Domain Driven Design
• UML (sequence and class diagrams)
• Integration architecture, Event-driven and API designs.
• Security and compliance by design
• Generative AI

• Desired Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as computer science, engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent experience.
• AWS Developer or Architect

Why you will enjoy working with us

• Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme
• Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year
• Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
• 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program
• Periodic recognition and reward programs for outstanding performance and achievements
• Frequent events and celebrations
• Employee Assistance Program & Wellbeing Initiatives
• Convenient and cozy office located near Astoria at KLUSTER Coworking

More about Pepperstone
We’re a regulated online Forex and CFD trading platform. With the scale of a global fintech and the agility of a start-up, we arm our clients with everything they need to take on the global markets with confidence. You will be part of a wider passionate and friendly team, and whilst things may not always go to plan, we learn quickly and move forward with impact. To learn even more visit  and 

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Pepperstone is an equal-opportunity employer. We are passionate about building a diverse workplace and strongly encourage applications from any background.

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