Solution Architect - 6 month FTC

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 7000+ team currently across 12 locations and 9 time zones. 

The Role  

Our technology team thrives on inclusivity and collaboration, believing that diverse perspectives lead to great solutions. We foster a culture that champions individual growth, professional development, and work-life harmony. We're invested in your success and dedicated to supporting you every step of the way. We encourage our team to bring challenge thinking and fresh ideas to the table and our Agile approach empowers us to focus on outcomes. When we hire someone it's because they bring the skills, attitude and experience we're looking for....so we let you do what you're best at! Join us and be part of a community that's passionate about harnessing technology's potential to drive market leading solutions for our clients. Elevate your career in an environment where your ideas matter, your growth is nurtured, and your potential is limitless. 

Our Solution Architect is part of a growing architecture capability at Pepperstone. As we invest in this space, this role will play a key role in a strategic transformation initiative, helping shape the future of our technology landscape.

You’ll lead discovery, apply AI-driven and capability-based analysis, and translate complex business challenges into clear, scalable solutions. Working at the intersection of strategy and delivery, you’ll define target-state architectures while contributing to the evolution of our enterprise architecture practice.

This is an opportunity to make a visible impact, driving meaningful change, influencing direction, and helping ensure we solve the right problems at scale.

This is a 6-month fixed-term contract with a possibility of extension.

As our Solution Architect, your key responsibilities include, but may not be limited to: 

• Lead architecture discovery and design for key strategic initiatives, translating business needs into scalable solutions aligned with Pepperstone’s strategic direction.
• Drive architecture decisions across both solution and enterprise levels, ensuring alignment with established principles, patterns, and guardrails.
• Conduct architecture impact assessments to evaluate significance, risks, and downstream implications of proposed changes.
• Contribute to the development of current and target-state architectures, including roadmap planning to support ongoing transformation.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to guide technical discovery, shape solutions, and support delivery outcomes.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and Product Managers to elicit requirements and support informed decision-making.
• Work alongside the Enterprise Architecture team to ensure consistency and alignment with broader architectural vision.
• Engage with Program Management to maintain alignment with strategic initiatives and evolving business priorities.

About you 

• 8+ years of experience in software development, including 5+ years in architecture roles, ideally within banking or fintech environments.
• Proven ability to design broad, effective architectures in complex and ambiguous environments.
• Experience defining and applying capability-based architectures to ensure the right business problems are being solved.
• Demonstrated ability to drive and influence complex architecture decisions through to alignment.
• Experience or exposure to CFD and/or crypto domains is highly desirable.
• Strong expertise in cloud-native application and infrastructure design.
• Proficiency in architecture modelling and capability mapping, including C4 models.
• Solid understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and UML (including sequence and class diagrams).
• Experience designing integration architectures, including event-driven and API-based systems.
• Strong focus on security and compliance by design.
• Exposure to Generative AI and its application in modern architecture contexts.

Why you will enjoy working with us

• Competitive salary

• Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture 

• Flexible and hybrid working 

• Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to hybrid working as standard 

• Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities 

• 15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave & 4 weeks paid secondary carers leave 

• 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program 

• Frequent events and celebrations including a standard weekly social 

• Beautifully renovated large office at Collins Square - 727 Collins Street, Melbourne 

• Best in class end of trip facilities including bicycle parking, change rooms & showers 

• A full stocked kitchen, onsite coffee machines with locally sourced coffee beans (this is Melbourne after all) and curated specialty teas 
  

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 Pepperstonecareers and www.linkedin.com/company/pepperstone/  

We understand it’s important to do due diligence on a prospective employer, see what our team are saying on Glassdoor. We respect our team members’ experiences and will never pay to remove a negative review.  

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

“We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we respond to every applicant”.  

We will be reviewing applications as they come through, so if this is an opportunity that excites you, don't wait. Express your interest by clicking the apply button below as soon as possible.  

Note to external agencies: While we appreciate the efforts of external recruitment agencies, we prefer to engage directly with applicants for this opportunity.  

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