Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $128 billion in assets (as at 31 March 2026). Life with us is fast moving and always exciting. Together we’re driving to deliver our vision to provide our customers with financial security for a better retirement.
We achieve this goal by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed.
Solution Architect · Martin Place, Sydney CBD · Hybrid (3 days in-office)
About the role
Challenger is in the middle of a genuine technology uplift; Several concurrent programmes, external partner integrations, and a modernisation agenda that is generating real architecture work. Not governance for governance's sake. Actual design, actual decisions, actual delivery.
We're looking for an end-to-end Solution Architect to join a small architecture function with broad scope and strong visibility. You'll hold context across a portfolio of high-priority initiatives, make decisions that stick, and produce architecture artefacts to a high standard from day one.
For the right person, this is a role with real ownership. You’ll be close to the work, close to decision-making, and able to see the impact of your thinking play out across the business.
What you’ll be doing
Designing and producing High Level Solution Architectures (HLSAs) and review low-level designs across multiple programmes
Making and documenting key technology decisions that unblock delivery teams and reduce downstream rework
Partnering with Product Owners, engineers, and delivery teams to keep solutions practical, scalable and aligned to business outcomes
Representing Challenger in technical discussions with external partners
Managing technology vendor relationships and keeping partner delivery on track
Identifying and managing technical debt and interdependency risks across overlapping workstreams
Ensuring solutions meet governance, cybersecurity, privacy and data standards
Contributing to the enterprise architecture direction and reference architecture where relevant
Participating in the Architecture Review Board and supporting governance across solutions, designs and decision
What you’ll bring
This role is genuinely hands-on - around 90% end-to-end solution architecture, not enterprise strategy or target-state roadmaps.
Essential experience
Financial services or other relevant regulated industry experience (medical, defence etc.)
Investment Management Domain Expertise: Experience delivering solution architecture across investment management platforms and operating models, including portfolio management, trading, custody, investment accounting, and outsourced service providers
Investment Data & Integration Expertise: Experience in investment data architectures, including integration across investment ecosystems
Hands-on architecture experience across complex enterprise environments
End-to-end solution architecture capability; business, application, information, integration, infrastructure and non-functional - you're comfortable owning the whole picture, not just one layer of it
A track record working across complex delivery environments: SDLC, multiple concurrent initiatives, external technology partners
Strong stakeholder communication skills - you can translate complexity for non-technical audiences and guide decisions with senior leaders
Sound commercial and architectural judgement, comfortable weighing trade-offs and making pragmatic calls
Broad enterprise technology and IT landscape knowledge
Nice to have
TOGAF certification or equivalent
Enterprise architecture experience aligned to technology strategy
Why Challenger?
Working at Challenger means being part of a connected team that enjoys what they do. We’re small enough to move quickly, and big enough to make meaningful change.
We support your growth and development, offer flexibility, and value the unique contributions people bring.
We provide access to a range of exclusive employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally and a hybrid work environment including.
Challenger Day – one extra day off every year in recognition of the effort our people make.
Subsidised on-site café and fantastic central location a stone's throw from Martin Place Metro
Extra superannuation contributions.
Access to Fitness Passport
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Challenger's employee value proposition guides how we work: Grow and realise your potential, supporting each other, stronger together and making things happen. Our culture encourages curiosity, considered thinking and meaningful contribution, with opportunities to build a broad and rewarding career.
We are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities and ways of thinking can thrive, and promoting flexible working to support work-life balance.
Challenger is proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a Family Friendly Workplace and recognised as a Bronze Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), the national benchmark for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion.
Job type:
PermanentPosting Close Date :
16/10/2026Skills Required
- Experience in financial services or another regulated industry
- Investment management domain expertise across portfolio management, trading, custody, investment accounting, and outsourced service providers
- Experience with investment data architectures and integration across investment ecosystems
- Hands-on solution architecture experience in complex enterprise environments
- End-to-end architecture capability spanning business, application, information, integration, infrastructure, and non-functional concerns
- Experience working across complex delivery environments, including SDLC, concurrent initiatives, and external technology partners
- Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to explain complexity and guide senior decisions
- Commercial and architectural judgment, including pragmatic trade-off decisions
- Broad enterprise technology and IT landscape knowledge
- TOGAF certification or equivalent
- Enterprise architecture experience aligned with technology strategy
What We Do
Challenger Life is Australia’s largest provider of annuities and provides regular income to thousands of customers. We’re a multi-award-winning Life Company and have $23 billion in assets under management (as at 30 June 2023). Challenger is focused on providing customers with financial security for retirement. We do this by offering investment strategies that exhibit consistently superior performance, and by helping customers in retirement with safe and reliable income streams. As Australia’s largest annuity provider, we provide regular income payments to thousands of Australian retirees. Our lifetime annuities protect retirees from the risk of running out of money late in life. The regular retirement incomes we pay are backed by a high-quality investment portfolio, including fixed income and commercial property investments. These investments generate regular and predictable investment income, which we use to fund retirement incomes paid to our customers. For our social media disclaimer statement, visit: http://www.challenger.com.au/Disclaimer
