Cloud Architect, Sydney
Sydney
Lab49 – Software Engineering /
Full-time /
Lab49 is a specialist strategy, design, and technology consulting company dedicated to the financial services industry. We were founded to fill a need in the Financial Technology marketplace for high-end execution and reliable delivery of technology projects.
Our consultants are experts in strategy, user experience, architecture, engineering, and delivery management. We combine knowledge of the latest trends in technology with deep domain expertise to deliver innovative solutions with accelerated time-to-market. We have onshore offices in New York, Washington DC, London and Sydney and offshore in India and Budapest. Our Sydney office started in 2013, and we are focused on expanding our capabilities and geographic footprint to support our growing client base.
What are we looking for?
Come join our experienced and rapidly expanding team to help transform the architectural landscape for our financial services clients. We are experiencing 100%+ year-on-year growth and need the best people to help build our culture and deliver outstanding client outcomes.
We are currently partnered with financial services firms on industry-leading architectural transformation. We need smart, progressive Cloud Architects to directly engage with senior stakeholders to design modern best-of-breed technical architecture to support their business.
Our architects have great communication skills, a deep understanding of technology, can clearly describe complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences, and are willing and able to both delve into detailed solution specifics and operate at the higher Enterprise architecture level. Our clients will rely on your expert judgement for modern and best-in-class application, data and technology solutions so a strong track record of effectively collaborating with project teams and partnering with clients, especially in the Financial Services Industry, Solutions Consulting, or start-up environments, is paramount.
Skills and experience
- Detailed understanding of modern solution architecture, accounting for distributed systems, real-time messaging, and security and resiliency concerns
- Cloud architecture experience
- Developed cloud strategy for large enterprises including hybrid and multi cloud architecture
- Experience in cloud native application architecture and design including fault tolerance, high-availability and disaster recovery
- Extensive knowledge of cloud services for at least one public cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Bonus for cloud certifications
- Integration architecture experience:
- Real-time, event-driven, and batch integration solutions
- Experience developing solutions on integration platforms (Azure integration services, Mulesoft, Boomi, Informatica, TIBCO, Software AG, CastIron, Jitterbit, or similar products)
- API Management platforms such as MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong or API Connect
- Strong understanding of application and API security and privacy controls
- Worked closely with business stakeholders and can clearly communicate technical considerations
- Experience designing and presenting complex enterprise architectures to stakeholders
- Developed roadmaps, creating technical strategies, principles and reference architectures to provide a common vision of the future state
- Proven experience leading technology strategies as an architect
- Low-level solution architecture and engineering experience is ideal (bonus points for AWS, Azure, Java, JavaScript, or C#)
- Who are you?
- You are technical but thrive in delivering business value - The business outcomes are always front-of-mind – we love technology, but the end game is always about creating business value with the most efficient and impactful solution.
- You are naturally curious, and a passionate problem solver - You’re unafraid to ask “why?”. You want to understand the problem, digging deep, collaborating with colleagues to come up with the best solution possible.
- You are someone we want to work with - You challenge the status quo and are someone we can learn from. We hire great people, and they are the cornerstones of Lab49. To be a success in this team you will need to live our values of integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration.
- You can collaborate with our clients - As a consultancy, our ability to work with our clients is paramount. You present well, communicate clearly, act professionally, and achieve great outcomes.
- You are passionate about technology - You follow the industry, you tinker and hack, and you read aplenty. You know that the technology landscape changes every few years and you retool continuously.
- You are willing to continually upskill - You are self-motivated in learning new technologies.
- Your knowledge of modern architectural solutions prevents you from reinventing the wheel. You have hands-on experience with event driven architectures, with exposure to high-volume distributed systems.
- You have attention to detail and don’t expect others to clean up behind you.
- You are pragmatic - You get things done, you can find a creative compromise between an ideal solution and actual client needs.
Why should you come work for us?
It is a challenge. Your peers will push you, and you will grow in leaps and bounds that is impossible in traditional organisations.
We push our clients to be better. We challenge the status quo, and bring modern thinking, technology, and processes together to help them gain an edge. We leverage our global expertise to provide proven thought leadership.
We are flexible. We understand you have a life beyond work, and we want to prioritise your work-life balance.
As a consultant, you will see a multitude of technologies, organisations, and projects. You will learn a lot in a very short period of time.
We are vendor and tech stack agnostic and need to be adaptable to various constraints and challenges.
We are a flat meritocracy. What matters is how good you are and how well you and your team deliver.
We are focused on the finance domain. There are plenty of areas where technology is a competitive advantage, and our clients turn to us when they need more innovative solutions.
If you ask our team, they will probably tell you that their extraordinary peer group is the primary reason that they work for us.
We are entrepreneurial and agile. There is a lot of opportunity to take accountability and grow quickly.
Lab49/ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
Lab49/ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
