We’re MYOB, a business management platform designed to unleash the potential of businesses across Australia and New Zealand! As the #originalstartup, our roots are in finance and accounting software, but today we are so much more. We help our Aussie and Kiwi customers unleash their full potential, giving them the tools to Start, Survive and Succeed: all in the one place.

We’re always on the hunt for those who bring a different perspective, diversity of thought and the drive to make our culture even better. Take your career to a new dimension at MYOB.

Our Tech team are true heroes. They’ve taken our legacy success and transformed it into an extraordinary SaaS platform to support SME and Enterprise businesses in ways they never knew they needed. By joining the Tech team, you’ll be an integral part of building our all-in-one business management platform.

As the Lead Architect for the customer vertical SME in the Product and Technology function, you will use your technical and interpersonal skills to lead, facilitate and guide the development of high-quality solutions.

You will build capabilities that are fit for purpose utilising the numerous resources available in the function and across the business. You will manage, encourage and mentor the Architects across SME, while giving Senior Product and Tech leadership and business partners a voice, bringing the two worlds together to build exciting high-quality business outcomes.

In joining the team at MYOB you will be leading the way, working across delivery teams and be a driving force of the technical architecture, design and quality standards. You'll define technical strategies and roadmaps, design solutions and lead initiatives to drive strategic outcomes for MYOB’s customers.

You will also contribute to crafting an outstanding team culture by role modelling a collaborative approach to working with team members, offering leadership, support, mentoring and guidance, particularly to the two other Architects in SME, as well as Principal Engineers and other developers.

If you want to work and collaborate where the status quo is challenged, opinions are valued, and your ideas can make a difference, you need to work at MYOB. We look forward to meeting you.

- You'll find opportunities to optimise architecture standards and practices across SME

- Collaborate across product teams to uplift practices, coding standards and tooling

- You'll contribute to Agile ceremonies whilst remaining agile in your approach to software product development practices and methodologies.

- Extensive experience as a Software Architect working in a scaled-up team environment, with a background in agile delivery

- Well-developed people leadership skills. Previous experience mentoring and coaching staff on technical issues.

- Comprehensive experience with, and a passion for implementing good engineering practices including TDD, Continuous Delivery, deployment automation, observability, good modular design, and clean code.

- Have extensive experience bringing simplicity to sophisticated systems and making them easier to modify, expand and scale as well as cheaper to run. You can guide others on how to do this.

- Commercial foresight in the context of business growth, with an understanding of technology strategies and roadmaps

- Extensive experience in business and systems analysis, architecture and design with techniques including DDD, event storming, workshop facilitation, brainstorming, use case modelling, data modelling, business process modelling, functional decomposition etc.

- Passion for solving business problems with technology.

- Experience in data-driven decision making.

Our values have stood the test of time. If you want to work and collaborate where opinions are valued, and your ideas can make a difference, come to a place where Your Work Matters.

🎥 See what it's like to work at MYOB and what we're all about.

🎯 Do your best work in a flexible work environment, right down to financial assistance to set up your home office…it’s called Flexperience, and it’s designed by you and your team!

🎯 Our partnership with Smiling Mind helps support the wellbeing of our team members and customers

🎯 Drive your own learning via conferences, in-house training, LinkedIn Learning, study assistance and a strong focus on leaders creating a learning environment

🎯 A multitude of leave options including up to an additional four weeks of purchased leave, generous parental leave, domestic violence leave, transgender leave, volunteer leave, study leave, plus more!

🎯 Communities built around ‘Wellness’, ‘Belonging’ and the ‘Planet’ where you can make a meaningful contribution

🎯 Access to best-in-class discounts and vouchers from leading retailers, and a lot more.

We are proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer and we commit to responding to every applicant.

MYOB are an equal opportunity employer and we champion diversity. Don’t meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply! Research tells us that that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At MYOB we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture, rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. Moving to ‘Culture Add’ means adding team members who not only value MYOBs standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to MYOB. So, if you’re excited about this role, or about MYOB, we’d still love to hear from you!