Senior Manager, Architecture
Cuscal LimitedSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Posted February 16, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Cuscal Limited is a leading payments and data services provider in Australia, offering a comprehensive suite of solutions including debit cards, mobile banking, EFTPOS, and digital banking. With a 56-year history, the company has established itself as a trusted partner for banks, mutuals, fintechs, and corporates by delivering innovative technology and deep industry expertise. Cuscal's commitment to enabling competition and driving progress through each transaction sets it apart in the financial payments sector.
Job Description
Cuscal is looking for a Senior Manager, Architecture to drive cross-domain and cross-business unit architectural alignment and ensure consistency, cohesion, and adherence to established architectural principles, guardrails, and patterns across projects and technology initiatives. The role requires a deep understanding of modern architecture disciplines, strong leadership presence, and ability to guide teams in applying architecture standards and reference models.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of modern architecture disciplines including application, data, integration, and cloud architecture
- Strong capability in designing scalable and resilient solutions across complex enterprise environments
- Broad experience with cloud platforms, virtualisation, container orchestration, integration technologies, and API design
- Knowledge of event driven patterns, distributed systems, service-based architectures, and modern data platforms
- Familiarity with security architecture principles, identity management, access control, and regulatory technology requirements
- Communicates solution direction and design decisions clearly to senior leaders, delivery teams, and business stakeholders
- Provides strong leadership presence and influences alignment across diverse teams
- Simplifies complex problems and shapes clear, structured solution approaches
- Works effectively with architects, engineers, analysts, and delivery managers to ensure cohesive execution
- Builds trusted relationships and maintains credibility across business units and technology domains
- Organises and prioritises work across multiple initiatives with disciplined planning
- Skilled in evaluating technology options and selecting patterns that balance performance, security, cost, and maintainability
- Strong understanding of engineering practices, delivery methodologies, solution design processes, and architecture governance
- Ability to guide teams in applying architecture standards, reference models, and reusable patterns
Benefits
- Hybrid work model
- IGNITE program for celebrating success
- Wellbeing focus with holistic initiatives and access to discounts via 'Cuscal Advantage'
