Solutions Architect

Company Description
Who we are:
At FCX we set out to replicate the listed market ‘user experience’ for unlisted assets. That’s why we have built Australia’s first intuitive end-to-end solution, specifically for private companies.
We provide the private investment sector with an unlisted assets registry that parallels listed market exchanges. FCX makes capital raising, registry management, and liquidity capabilities lightning fast and efficient – in a secure, transparent and regulated way. FCX’s new tech-enabled ecosystem provides investors with direct ownership and control of their investment assets, enabling interruption-free, streamlined, and instant ‘atomic’ settlement on trades.
FCX is part of the FinClear Group of companies. FinClear is Australia’s largest independent market access technology and infrastructure provider hosting over A$130 billion of listed assets on its existing digital platform transacting over 570,000 accounts.
If a dynamic, innovative, fast moving tech environment where you can make a difference sounds like your sort of thing, then FCX is the home for you.
Job Description
This is an excellent opportunity for a Solutions Architect looking to:

• Be a solution leader in driving modern competitive technology improvements that has a direct impact on the organization.
• Work in a naturally complex industry that will continually challenge your technical and solutioning skills.
• Join an organization that offers a flexible hybrid work environment with offices across Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.

At FCX the Solutions Architect key purpose is to bring ideas to life. They achieve their purpose by working with the business to formulate requirements to achieve results. This is across Web, Mobile and Java modern backend micro-services running in AWS applied to the finance and investment domain where technology provides the key competitive advantage.
This specific Solutions Architect position will see you work closely within a team of 15 that comprises of BA’s, PM’s, Software Engineers, Product Owners and Client Relationship Managers. This role is also part of and supported by the FinClear group which consist of 180 employees, 70 specifically being in tech.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Analyzing problems and applying technology to solve them.
• Defining the relevant types of requirements and working with teams to illicit them.
• Estimating solutions and designing development teams to deliver against the requirements.
• Leading teams from a technical standpoint to ensure delivery against requirements.
• Collaborating with technology vendors and third-party development teams to deliver solutions.
• Writing program documentation for third party technical consumption of the organizations public API’s.
• Hands on development/ support of micro service architecture along with client/ server programming in Java, JavaScript technologies on AWS, queue and RDMS infrastructure.
• Influencing and selling ideas to both technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Mentor Software Engineers and Testers.
• Ensure sufficient level of security and encryption are applied.
• Code Reviews and quality improvements.

Qualifications
Required:

• Tertiary education in computer science or a similar discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience developing solutions leveraging Java.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience developing web solutions in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS.
• Strong analytical and logical skills.
• Experience leading teams to deliver against requirements.
• Expert across AWS, RDMS infrastructure, queue, Micro-Services, TypeScript, SQL, AWS, Linux, GIT Jira.
• Ability to mentor both Software and Test Engineers.

Bonus points for:

• Experience working in a quality focused test-driven development environment.
• Working with high performance technology solutions.
• Experience working in the financial domain.
• Experience in estimating solutions and designing development teams to deliver against requirements.
• Previous experience working with technology vendors.
• Knowledge of writing program documentation for third party technical consumption of companys public API’s.
• Knowledge or experience across: GRPS, CSS, Hashicorp stack (Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Vault), PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, JavaFX, OSX, NextJS, IntelliJ, Polymere, AngularJS, REACTJS.
• AWS Certification.

Additional Information
What are the ingredients to our secret sauce?
That’s our people and the technology solutions we create, as the business grows, we are also evolving our benefits to one that our people love!
Benefits:

• A team that is invested in the success of FinClear and a generous ESOP for all our employees
• 16 Weeks of gender neutral paid parental leave
• A flexible work environment - we have fantastic new offices where we come to collaborate and have those face-to-face meetings with some days at home
• An inclusive and diverse working environment for all
• Prioritise mental health with all our staff having free access to our EAP programme including 1:1 session with qualified coaches and psychologists
• E-Vehicles – Salary Sacrifice

Ready to apply?
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Please note :

• Applications will be reviewed w/c 29/02/2024
• Rights to legally work in Australia is a must to be considered for the immediate opportunities at FinClear, (sponsorship options are currently not an option)