Solution Architect - 12 Month Max Term

Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $128.2 billion in assets (as at 31 December 2025). Life with us is fast moving and always exciting. Together we’re driving to deliver our vision to provide our customers with financial security for a better retirement.

We achieve this goal by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed.

Solution Architect · 12 Month MTC · Martin Place, Sydney CBD · Hybrid (3 days in-office)

About the role

Challenger is in the middle of a genuine technology uplift; Several concurrent programmes, external partner integrations, and a modernisation agenda that is generating real architecture work. Not governance for governance's sake. Actual design, actual decisions, actual delivery.

We're looking for an end-to-end Solution Architect to join a small architecture function with broad scope and strong visibility. You'll hold context across a portfolio of high-priority initiatives, make decisions that stick, and produce architecture artefacts to a high standard from day one.

For the right person, this is a role with real ownership. You’ll be close to the work, close to decision-making, and able to see the impact of your thinking play out across the business.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing and producing High Level Solution Architectures (HLSAs) and review low-level designs across multiple programmes

• Making and documenting key technology decisions that unblock delivery teams and reduce downstream rework

• Partnering with Product Owners, engineers, and delivery teams to keep solutions practical, scalable and aligned to business outcomes

• Representing Challenger in technical discussions with external partners

• Managing technology vendor relationships and keeping partner delivery on track

• Identifying and managing technical debt and interdependency risks across overlapping workstreams

• Ensuring solutions meet governance, cybersecurity, privacy and data standards

• Contributing to the enterprise architecture direction and reference architecture where relevant

• Participating in the Architecture Review Board and supporting governance across solutions, designs and decision

What you’ll bring

This role is genuinely hands-on - around 90% end-to-end solution architecture, not enterprise strategy or target-state roadmaps.

Essential experience

• Financial services or other relevant regulated industry experience (medical, defence etc.)

• Hands-on architecture experience across complex enterprise environments

• End-to-end solution architecture capability; business, application, information, integration, infrastructure and non-functional - you're comfortable owning the whole picture, not just one layer of it

• A track record working across complex delivery environments: SDLC, multiple concurrent initiatives, external technology partners

• Strong stakeholder communication skills - you can translate complexity for non-technical audiences and guide decisions with senior leaders

• Sound commercial and architectural judgement, comfortable weighing trade-offs and making pragmatic calls

• Broad enterprise technology and IT landscape knowledge

Nice to have

• Exposure to investment, life insurance or front office systems

• TOGAF certification or equivalent

• Enterprise architecture experience aligned to technology strategy

Why Challenger?

Working at Challenger means being part of a connected team that enjoys what they do. We’re small enough to move quickly, and big enough to make meaningful change.

We support your growth and development, offer flexibility, and value the unique contributions people bring.

We provide access to a range of exclusive employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally and a hybrid work environment including.

• Challenger Day – one extra day off every year in recognition of the effort our people make.

• Subsidised on-site café and fantastic central location a stone's throw from Martin Place Metro

• Extra superannuation contributions.

• Access to Fitness Passport

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Challenger's employee value proposition guides how we work: Grow and realise your potential, supporting each other, stronger together and making things happen. Our culture encourages curiosity, considered thinking and meaningful contribution, with opportunities to build a broad and rewarding career.

We are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities and ways of thinking can thrive, and promoting flexible working to support work-life balance.

Challenger is proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a Family Friendly Workplace and recognised as a Bronze Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), the national benchmark for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion.

Job type:

Max Term (Fixed Term)

Posting Close Date :

15/08/2026