Solution Designer

• Sydney | Full time | Permanent
• Hybrid work environment
• Based at our Head Office in Sydney CBD

Opportunity to shape the Bank's next-generation integration and AI-enabled architecture

We are seeking an experienced Solution Designer to join our technology team and play a pivotal role in designing, integrating, and evolving enterprise solutions across the Bank.

This role is responsible for translating business objectives into scalable, secure and resilient technology solutions that span internal systems, cloud platforms, and external partners. You will work across a diverse technology landscape, designing end-to-end applications, APIs, integration services, event-driven architectures, and data flows that enable critical business capabilities.

The ideal candidate combines strong architecture and integration experience with a forward-looking understanding of AI, machine learning, and modern cloud platforms, helping ensure today's solutions can evolve to meet tomorrow's opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity for a technology professional who enjoys solving complex enterprise challenges, influencing stakeholders and delivering practical outcomes that create lasting value for the Bank.

As a Solution Designer, you will:

• Design end-to-end business and technology solutions across multiple systems, applications, data platforms and external organisations.
• Produce solution architectures, high-level designs, integration specifications and technology roadmaps.
• Partner with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, analysts and delivery teams to transform requirements into deliverable solutions.
• Design secure and resilient integration patterns including APIs, event-driven architectures, messaging and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Lead solution design activities across projects, initiatives and strategic technology programs.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, technology patterns and regulatory obligations.
• Identify opportunities to simplify technology landscapes and reduce operational complexity.
• Design solutions that support future AI and machine learning initiatives through reusable data, integration and platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with external vendors, financial institutions, government agencies and strategic partners to establish secure and scalable integrations.
• Contribute to architecture standards, reusable patterns and best practices across the Bank.
• Support delivery teams throughout implementation, ensuring solutions are implemented in accordance with approved designs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations on their application within the Bank.

What Success Looks Like

As a Solution Designer, you will be a trusted technology advisor who:

• Delivers practical and well-structured solution designs that address business needs.
• Connects business strategy, data, applications and technology into cohesive end-to-end solutions.
• Enables secure and seamless integration across internal and external ecosystems.
• Influences stakeholders and creates alignment across technical and non-technical teams.
• Balances innovation with security, resilience and operational sustainability.
• Designs solutions that can evolve to support AI, automation and future digital capabilities.
• Drives consistency through reusable architecture patterns and standards.

About You

You are an experienced solution designer, architect or senior technical specialist who enjoys working across business and technology domains. You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity, navigating complex stakeholder environments and solving enterprise-scale integration challenges.

You have a strong understanding of application architecture, system integration and cloud technologies, together with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and executive audiences.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Demonstrated experience designing end-to-end enterprise solutions across multiple applications and platforms.
• Strong experience with systems integration, API design and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience designing solutions spanning on-premises and cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of application architecture principles and software development lifecycle practices.
• Experience producing architecture artefacts including solution architectures, high-level designs and impact assessments.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills.
• Proven ability to work across business, architecture, engineering and delivery teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and critical-thinking capability.
• Experience balancing business requirements, security, operational resilience, and technology constraints.

Highly Desirable

• Experience with Microsoft Azure services and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with hybrid integration platforms, API management, event streaming, and messaging technologies.
• Experience integrating with external organisations and third-party service providers.
• Knowledge of enterprise data architectures and modern data platforms.
• Experience designing solutions that leverage or support AI, machine learning, generative AI, or intelligent automation capabilities.
• Understanding of MLOps, AI governance, model integration patterns, and responsible AI principles.
• Financial services, government or highly regulated industry experience.

Technical Capability Areas

The successful candidate will demonstrate capability across several of the following:

• Enterprise Application Architecture
• API and Service Design
• Hybrid Integration Architecture
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Cloud Solution Design (Azure)
• Identity and Access Management
• Security Architecture and Secure Design
• Data Integration and Data Architecture
• AI and Machine Learning Solution Enablement
• Solution Governance and Architecture Assurance
• Technology Modernisation and Cloud Adoption
• Vendor and Partner Integration

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• TOGAF certification or equivalent architecture certification is highly regarded.
• Azure certifications are desirable.
• Integration, cloud, security, or architecture certifications are advantageous.

Be More

Working for an organisation that serves the Australian public, we offer opportunities to work on complex and meaningful technology challenges while developing your professional capabilities in a collaborative environment.

You will help shape technology that underpins critical business functions, drives innovation, and supports the Bank's future digital and AI ambitions.

Why RBA?

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people. Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward. Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.