• Architectural ownership of some technical platforms which includes understanding and defining the Current maturity of the platform, the risks, uplift and improving the capability, defining target state and roadmap to. This requires strategic thinking.  

• Definition and ownership of Guidance/Guardrails on how to use the technology and how not to.  

• Consulting and supporting other Architects when they need to consume the technology platform/capability. 

• Working on Domain initiatives (within Enterprise Technology) to improve or uplift the platform and its capability.  

• Depth of technical knowledge, working with engineers. 

• Responsibilities for health and safety has been assigned to all employees. For your specific responsibilities refer to Responsibilities for Workplace Health and Safety located on the intranet under People Toolbar.  

• Conform with all internal operating procedures relevant to the position.  

• Continually seek out relevant industry and technical knowledge and improve on professional skills by completing necessary development activities and actively share knowledge acquired with appropriate audiences.  

• Coaching, monitoring, supervision of direct reports to ensure they have the skills and knowledge to perform their role to be compliant with Financial Services Reform Act requirements and external legislation in a professional and ethical manner.  

• Provide technical direction and leadership to the service team, across the technology lifecycle, creating and maintaining the Target State Architecture for each capability within the service and mapping all components to the asset management system  

• Align service roadmap to NAB technology strategy and architectural principles/patterns  

• Establish the current state, target state architecture positions for the service. 

• Maintain the cohesive service boundary based on Views across NAB service teams and API/contract set and Eventing model for the service  

• Deliver a comprehensive quality attribute-based service architecture that includes technical debt, currency, failure analysis, service performance targets, scalability targets, and availability targets  

• Perform service optimisation, scaled modelling, various forms of walk- throughs and design reviews  

• Drives the service feature backlog grooming and raises features, epics and stories as suited for delivery and providing architecture input into the prioritisation of backlog items. Ensure capabilities external to the service are also identified as dependencies where appropriate  

• Create impact analysis of service functional and non-functional requirements and constraints on the planned service roadmap in the current business and technology environments including the regulatory impacts and risks to the service design and supportability  

• Make and document architectural decisions to satisfy regulatory and compliance requirements for the service.  

• Validate design artefacts for completeness, ensuring testability to enable effective change management for the service.  

• Establish governance procedures to ensure the implemented software meets the design requirements and is done in strict accordance to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), NAB Technical Enterprise Architecture standards, tools, and design specifications.  

• Assess service capacity planning requirements and Service Level Agreement (SLA) for impact on the target service architecture  

• 10+ years experience in the Technology industry.  

• 5+ years experience in Software Development and Solution Design.  

• File and batch scheduling and file transfers between applications and services. Technology such as BMC Control-M. 

• Application Messaging technologies (Request/Response such as IBM MQ). Includes hollowing out legacy middleware (Global Channel Services – GCS) into APIs and microservices. 

• Strong understanding and know-how of APIs (REST/JSON), API quality and governance and the associated API Gateway applications (Kong API Gateway) 

• Experience and demonstration of agile practices.  

• Experience with both packaged and custom build software as well as  

• third party vendors and partners.  

• Experience with collaborating to achieve outcomes across business,  

• project and technical teams.  

• AWS or Azure certification (preferable)  

• Stakeholder management  

• Communication and influencing skills  

• Negotiation skills  

• Systems integration experience in complex legacy environments  

• involving mainframe transaction processing, web delivery, message  

• integration and data warehousing components.  

• Exposure to the Banking industry  

THE BENEFITS AND PERKS 

We appreciate and reward our colleagues who do great work every day – from excelling for our customers, to taking ownership of an issue to get it resolved. Here’s how we support our people with a range of exclusive benefits. 

1. Generous compensation and benefit package  

• Attractive salary  

• 20-day paid annual leave and 7-day paid sick leave 

• 13th month salary and Annual Performance Bonus 

• Premium healthcare for yourself and family members 

• Monthly allowance for team activities 

• Premium welcome kit and occasional gifts of appreciation 

• Extra benefits on your work anniversary 

2. Exciting career and development opportunities   

• Large scale products with modern technologies in banking domain 

• Clear roadmap for career advancement in both technical and leadership pathways 

• Access to digital learning platform such as Udemy 

• Consistent and high-quality leadership training through the Distinctive Leadership program (DLP) 

• Specialist capabilities and accreditations in key skill areas such as Cloud Engineering, Digital, Data, Security and SREs (Site reliability engineers) 

• Sponsored English course with native teachers 

• Opportunity for training in Australia 

3. Professional and engaging working environment   

• Hybrid working model and excellent work-life balance 

• State-of-the-art & modern Agile office 

• Food and beverages in the office pantry 

• Employee Assistance Program to improve your physical and mental health 

• Annual team activities and company events 

• A solid and talented team behind you – great people who love what they do 

A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE WORKS BETTER FOR EVERYONE 

We know that our people make us who we are. That's why we have built a culture of respect – where everyone feels valued and appreciated for being their true authentic selves at NAB. With our focus on inclusion and diversity, and in partnership with our Employee Resource Groups, NAB is a place where First Nations colleagues, colleagues of all genders, sexualities and ages, carers and colleagues with disability, and colleagues from all cultures, races and religions have the opportunity to thrive, connect and grow. 

We are intent on providing an environment where you can work your way. Ask about our many flexible work options and please let us know if we can provide any adjustments throughout the recruitment process. 

CLOUD-FIRST  

NAB is undergoing an exciting "Cloud First" technology transformation by taking advantage of the latest tools and techniques used by leading technology and digital companies globally. But it’s not just about the Tech, we are also investing heavily in our people, so if you have an appetite to learn, grow and elevate others around you, this is the place for you!  

If this excites you, let's have a chat over a cup of coffee!