Program Architect Merchant Services

Job no: 792704
Business unit: Technology and Enterprise Operations
Primary position location: 700 Bourke St, Docklands, VIC
Work type: Permanent Full time
Region: VIC- Melbourne CBD

• Opportunities for career progression throughout the business
• Great engaging work environment where customer advocacy is highly valued.
• We are focused on your learning & development.

It's more than a career at NAB. It's about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.

You make NAB. You get it done for our customers and our communities. You're laying the foundations for NAB's future success. Together we'll grow, excel for our customers, and make this a workplace to be proud of.

It's a good time to see what more you can find at NAB as a Program Architect, Merchant Services within NAB's Strategy and Architecture Group.

The Role

As per snr architect, but more complex delivery and scale ($50M +) in a single year.

Co-ordinates architecture delivery across dependent simultaneous parallel streams of architecture delivery - often co-ordinating delivery with 5-15 architects.

The Architect defines the end-to-end technical architecture to support the delivery of investment slate, guiding and influencing business delivery and ensuring alignment to target state technology.

Key responsibilities

Co-ordinates architects and senior architects to

• Lead the technical direction-setting for a story / epic / feature. They deliver an end-to-end technical outcome for initiatives by orchestrating delivery across one or more domains. They identify service impacts. They understand how new and existing target states will be consumed to deliver an initiative. They work to shape and sequence initiative features on service backlogs.
• Provide technical direction and leadership to the architecture team, across the technology lifecycle, creating and maintaining the Target State Architecture for each capability within the domain and mapping all components to the asset management system.
• Align application roadmap to NAB technology strategy and architectural principles/patterns.
• Establish the current state, target state architecture positions for the domain. Ensure asset lifecycle is maintained for every component within the domain boundary.
• Perform architecture optimisation, scaled modelling, various forms of walkthroughs 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 functional and non-functional requirements and constraints on the business roadmap in the current business and technology environments including the regulatory impacts and risks.
• Make and document architectural decisions to satisfy regulatory and compliance requirements for the domain.
• Validate design artefacts for completeness, ensuring testability to enable effective change management of assets within the domain.
• Assist Software Development Engineers to proactively identify issues, performs problem diagnosis and root cause analysis.
• Support "You build it, you run it" by participating in service production releases.

• 10+ years Architecture Experience with developing or running agile practices in large organisations with regulatory and legacy constraints Initiative > $50M.
• Proven experience strong business engagement, influencing skills with the ability to navigate complex topics with fact based analysis.
• Understand the trade-offs involved in technology change while simultaneously delivering business benefit. Requires commercial acumen, business alignment and ability to negotiate.
• Extensive architecture experience in card transaction switching systems, HSM integrations, real-time private health insurer claiming, point of sale terminals and eCommerce gateways.

At NAB, we work together to deliver exceptional outcomes that exceed our customers' expectations. We are an ASX listed organisation that has been serving Australian communities for more than 160 years. We are investing in positive change and our work changes the future of banking. Our colleagues have an impact far beyond work, and you will be part of a team that is helping to solve some of society's biggest challenges.

A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone.

At NAB, we are intent on building a culture we can all be proud of. One based on trust and respect. An uplifting environment where every single one of us feels appreciated and empowered to be our true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It is a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

More focus on you

We are committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities. To learn more, visit the Benefits of Working at NAB page on our website.

Join NAB

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let the recruitment consultant know. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert.

Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.

Advertised: 14 Mar 2024 6:00 AM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Closing: 15 Mar 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time