11 hours ago
Auckland, New ZealandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set target states and transition roadmaps for domestic and international payments, merchant services, and open banking.
- Shape BNZ’s payments strategy and architecture while anticipating regulatory, industry, and standards changes.
- Guide integration across payment platforms, channels, records, core banking, ledgers, and external providers.
- Define reusable patterns for APIs, events, messaging, and batch processing, including data ownership, privacy, duplicate prevention, and safe retries.
- Define availability, performance, observability, failover, and recovery requirements across bank, scheme, and third-party services.
- Develop architecture for identity, consent, mandates, delegated access, approval controls, and auditable revocation.
- Lead modernisation, migration, and decommissioning decisions while balancing customer value, cost, technical debt, and resilience.
- Explore emerging capabilities through controlled experimentation and provide design assurance and governance escalation.
- Coach architects and delivery teams and influence business, technology, operations, and risk stakeholders without direct authority.
- Follow legislative, policy, health and safety, training, and incident-reporting requirements.
Requirements
- Experienced enterprise or solution architecture background, including large-scale transformation, cloud computing, microservices, and secure integration.
- Experience delivering payment services and understanding New Zealand’s payments environment, Payments NZ, card and account-to-account payments, merchant acquiring, and international payments.
- Knowledge of scheme rules and certification, authorisation, clearing, settlement finality, liquidity, cut-off times, reconciliation, refunds, disputes, and chargebacks.
- Knowledge of regulated open banking under the Customer and Product Data Act 2025 and associated standards.
- Knowledge of ISO 20022 messaging, fraud and scam prevention, sanctions screening, financial crime controls, and PCI DSS.
- Experience with identity proofing, consent scope and withdrawal, account mandates, signatories, delegated authorities, transaction limits, separation of duties, and multiple approvals.
- Strategic and enterprise-wide thinking, analytical problem-solving, sound judgement, collaborative leadership, clear communication, adaptability, customer focus, and accountability.
- Commitment to coaching and developing architects and delivery teams.
- A relevant qualification or equivalent practical experience.
- Financial services experience and familiarity with TOGAF or Zachman are desirable.
Benefits
- Permanent employment with BNZ.
- Auckland-based hybrid working arrangement with three days in the office and two days working flexibly.
- Wellbeing support and a generous leave offering.
- Opportunities for growth, learning, and career development.
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About NAB
The National Association of Broadcasters is the U.S. trade association for radio and television stations and networks. It advocates on policy and regulatory issues, supports industry standards and education, and produces the NAB Show, a major annual media and technology conference. Founded in 1923 and headquartered in Washington, DC, NAB operates as a nonprofit membership organization funded by dues, events, and sponsorships.