Architect - SaaS Acceleration

Melbourne, Australia
Technology – Information Technology /
Permanent /
Hybrid
We’re MYOB, a business management platform designed to unleash the potential of businesses across Australia and New Zealand! As the #originalstartup, our roots are in finance and accounting software, but today we are so much more. We help our Aussie and Kiwi customers unleash their full potential, giving them the tools to Start, Survive and Succeed: all in the one place.
We’re always on the hunt for those who bring a different perspective, diversity of thought and the drive to make our culture even better. Take your career to a new dimension at MYOB. 

About the Team
Our Tech team are true heroes. They’ve taken our legacy success and transformed it into an extraordinary SaaS platform to support SME and Enterprise businesses in ways they never knew they needed. By joining the Tech team, you’ll be an integral part of building our all-in-one business management platform.

The role and what are we looking for?
As an Architect in the Technology function, you will use your technical and interpersonal skills to facilitate and guide the development of high-quality solutions. You will build capabilities that are fit for purpose utilising the numerous resources available in the function and across the business. You will encourage and mentor developers while giving Product Managers and business partners a voice, bringing the two worlds together to build awesome high-quality business outcomes.


What will you be doing!
In this role, you will be working across multiple delivery teams focusing on delivery of the SaaS Acceleration program and be a driving force of the technical architecture, design and quality standards.
You'll work with our teams to plan, build and run the common capabilities used across of our SaaS business management platform. Everything from CRM and customer portals to developer tooling and hosting platforms.
You will also contribute to crafting an outstanding team culture by role modelling a collaborative approach to working with team members, offering leadership, support, mentoring and guidance, particularly to Engineers and Developers.


What experience we'd love you to bring!
- Proven experience as a Software Architect/Developer/Engineer working in a team environment, with multiple years in an agile, complex environment
- Have extensive experience simplifying sophisticated systems/problems and making them easier to modify, expand and scale as well as cheaper to run. You can guide others on how to do this.
- Extensive experience in business and systems analysis, architecture and design with techniques including DDD, workshop facilitation, brainstorming, use case modelling, data modelling, business process modelling, functional decomposition etc.
- Comprehensive experience with, and a passion for implementing good engineering practices including TDD, Continuous Delivery, deployment automation, observability, good modular design, and clean code.
- Well-developed people leadership skills. Previous experience mentoring and coaching staff on technical issues.
- Experience with a wide range of software development languages and tools.
- Proven understanding or experience deploying cloud-based solutions utilising known good practice for scalability, resilience and recovery.
- Passion for solving business problems with technology.
- Experience in data-driven decision making.
- Engagement within the Development community
Our Culture & Benefits 
Our values have stood the test of time. If you want to work and collaborate where opinions are valued, and your ideas can make a difference, come to a place where Your Work Matters.  
🎥 See what it's like to work at MYOB and what we're all about.

🎯 Do your best work in a flexible work environment, right down to financial assistance to set up your home office…it’s called Flexperience, and it’s designed by you and your team! 
🎯 Our partnership with Smiling Mind helps support the wellbeing of our team members and customers 
🎯 Drive your own learning via conferences, in-house training, LinkedIn Learning, study assistance and a strong focus on leaders creating a learning environment 
🎯 A multitude of leave options including up to an additional four weeks of purchased leave, generous parental leave, domestic violence leave, transgender leave, volunteer leave, study leave, plus more! 
🎯 Communities built around ‘Wellness’, ‘Belonging’ and the ‘Planet’ where you can make a meaningful contribution 
🎯 Access to best-in-class discounts and vouchers from leading retailers, and a lot more. 

We are proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer and we commit to responding to every applicant.  

MYOB are an equal opportunity employer and we champion diversity. Don’t meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply!  Research tells us that that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement.  At MYOB we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture, rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. Moving to ‘Culture Add’ means adding team members who not only value MYOBs standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to MYOB.  So, if you’re excited about this role, or about MYOB, we’d still love to hear from you!