Solution Architect

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