Life @ AP+:
We are one connected team in pursuit of one inspiring purpose – to unite people and technology to power better experiences. Each of us has a part to play in making that happen. You’ll be encouraged to bring your big ideas forward and make a difference through your work. Taking steps forward in your career whilst still having room for fun, friendships, and flexibility in your daily life.
We’re driven by our core values: lead with heart, learn for tomorrow and live our legacy. A purpose like ours takes the inspired impact of an incredible team. Ready to change the game? We’re ready to help you do it.
The Role:
As a Data Architect at AP+, you’ll help shape how data is designed, governed and used across the technology that supports Australia’s payments ecosystem.
You’ll translate complex business and information needs into practical, secure and scalable data architectures, providing expert guidance across data modelling, integration and solution design. Working across technology and business teams, you’ll help ensure our data platforms, standards and architecture decisions enable reliable delivery today while positioning AP+ for advanced analytics, AI and the data products of tomorrow.
This role is responsible for:
- Shape and evolve AP+’s data architecture, developing secure, scalable and reliable data solutions that align with enterprise strategy and support evolving business needs.
- Lead data architecture and design across complex initiatives, translating business objectives and information requirements into coherent conceptual, logical and physical data designs.
- Establish and embed data architecture standards and governance, ensuring security, privacy, quality and architectural principles are consistently applied across solutions.
- Provide authoritative technical leadership, guiding decisions across data modelling, integration, platform design and architecture while assessing options, risks and trade-offs.
- Enable the evolution of AP+’s modern data platforms, helping create the architecture required to support advanced analytics, AI-driven insights and modern data products.
- Build trusted partnerships across business and technology, simplifying complex data concepts, facilitating architecture decisions and identifying opportunities to create greater value from data.
In order to be successful in this role, you’ll need to demonstrate:
- Significant Data Architecture experience, with the profile seeking a minimum of seven years and ideally experience within payments, banking or financial services.
- Proven experience designing enterprise data platforms within AWS and Snowflake, including architecture that enables advanced analytics, AI-driven analysis and modern data products.
- Strong data modelling and solution design expertise, with experience translating complex and sometimes ambiguous requirements into conceptual, logical and physical data architectures.
- Strong technical knowledge across the modern data stack, including SQL, ETL, CI/CD pipelines and Snowflake, with exposure to analytics and visualisation tools such as Power BI and ideally ML-based analysis.
- Demonstrated architecture leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to evaluate complex design options, manage architectural risk and provide credible specialist advice to technical and business stakeholders.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent professional experience in data, information systems, computer science, engineering or a related discipline; architecture or data management certification would be advantageous.
What happens next:
At AP+, we believe in the power of passion, pride, and purpose. Our team is driven by a shared mission to make a difference in the world of payments, and we're proud to work together towards this common goal.
If you’re ready to be a game changer, please submit your application. The Talent Acquisition team will endeavour to review your application and notify you of the outcome within the next two weeks.
We want to remove all barriers to inclusion so if you need advice or support with your application, we’re here to help. Please reach out to [email protected] We also encourage you to let us know your pronouns at any point during the recruitment process.
AP+ are not partnering with Recruitment agencies for this role.
Skills Required
- Minimum of seven years Data Architecture experience (ideally payments/banking/financial services)
- Proven experience designing enterprise data platforms within AWS and Snowflake, supporting advanced analytics and data products
- Strong data modelling and solution design expertise (conceptual, logical, physical designs)
- Strong technical knowledge across the modern data stack including SQL, ETL and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with analytics and visualisation tools such as Power BI
- Experience or exposure to machine learning based analysis
- Demonstrated architecture leadership and influencing skills, ability to manage risk and advise stakeholders
- Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent professional experience in data, information systems, computer science, engineering or related discipline
- Architecture or data management certification
What We Do
Introducing Australian Payments Plus Australian Payments Plus (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. Operating in the public interest, AP+ is a member-owned organisation, with a diverse range of members including Australia’s domestic banks, international banks operating in Australia, some of the country’s largest merchants, payment service providers and payment processors, together with a range of challenger and disruptor brands focused on specific markets and products.
