Principal Architect

Principal Architect Why Tyro? At Tyro, we’re into business big time. Through our integrated payments, banking and lending solutions, we’re here to ensure nothing stands in the way of Australian business success. With over 21 years' experience under our belt, we know what it takes to build something great, which is why we combine the best people, technology, and partners to deliver simplified payments and seamless business banking to our customers. We’re proud to power more than 76,000 merchants across Australia and to work with almost 800 partners to create seamless experiences for hospitality, retail, services and health providers. It starts with You. Just like our customers, we’re obsessed with the success of our people. So, when you come onboard, we’ll give you all the support you need to do your best work. Our close to 600 Tyros are a highly collaborative team, so you’ll get to work with smart, motivated and friendly people across Tyro. We are fast paced and innovative and strive to live our values everyday – commit to greatness, stay hungry, wow the customer, be good and win together! We are big enough for you to have opportunities to have a career at Tyro and small enough that you can have a real impact. As we continue our mission to shake things up and make payments the easiest part of doing business, you’ll have the opportunity to learn new skills with hands-on experience, further your career, and help unleash the potential of our customers, one payment at a time. 🎥 Step inside life at Tyro here . About the role At Tyro, architecture is about more than systems design — it’s about enabling the business to move faster, scale smarter, and deliver better customer outcomes. As Principal Architect, you’ll help shape the enterprise technology strategy that connects business priorities to executable delivery across the organisation. You’ll work across domains, programs and leadership teams to drive platformisation, alignment and architectural clarity, ensuring our biggest initiatives deliver coherent end-to-end outcomes. This is a highly influential role for someone who thrives on solving complex enterprise challenges, reducing organisational friction, and helping teams build with confidence and consistency. What you'll do Strategy Translation: Partner with product and executive stakeholders to turn business goals into clear technology priorities, target states and strategic sequencing. Enterprise Architecture Leadership: Define and evolve enterprise target architectures, architectural principles and integration standards that support scalable platformisation and reuse. Roadmap Alignment: Consolidate and align architecture roadmaps across domains, identifying dependencies, duplication, sequencing risks and opportunities for simplification. Portfolio Prioritisation: Drive prioritisation of architectural initiatives, ensuring enabling platform work and architectural debt reduction are embedded into planning cycles. Program Architecture Ownership: Lead end-to-end architecture across major enterprise programs, defining integrated flows, interfaces, migration strategies and non-functional requirements. Cross-Domain Decision Making: Facilitate architecture working sessions that help teams align on ownership, trade-offs, contracts and sequencing decisions quickly and pragmatically. Standards & Governance: Steward enterprise standards across APIs, events, domain boundaries, versioning and shared platform capabilities while evolving standards where needed. Risk & Readiness Management: Identify and manage systemic architectural risks including migration readiness, operational resilience, data consistency and performance considerations. Architecture Community Leadership: Coach and support Solution Architects and specialist architects through consistent practices, lightweight governance and outcome-focused ways of working. Continuous Improvement: Drive architectural maturity, platform consistency and long-term simplification to help Tyro deliver with greater speed, quality and sustainability. What you'll bring Enterprise Architecture Experience: Extensive experience leading architecture across large-scale, cross-domain technology environments with complex integration landscapes. Strategic Thinking: The ability to translate business strategy into practical technology direction, balancing long-term architecture outcomes with delivery realities. Systems & Integration Expertise: Strong understanding of platformisation, APIs, event-driven architectures, domain boundaries and enterprise integration patterns. Program Leadership: Proven experience guiding architecture across major transformation programs, including migration planning, sequencing and operational readiness. Influence & Alignment: Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to align senior leaders, architects and engineering teams around shared outcomes. Decision-Making Capability: Confidence navigating ambiguity, resolving competing priorities and driving pragmatic architectural decisions at pace. Governance with Pragmatism: Experience establishing architecture principles, standards and lightweight governance models that enable rather than slow delivery. Risk & Operational Awareness: Strong appreciation for architectural risk, resilience, scalability and operational considerations within regulated or high-availability environments. Coaching & Mentorship: A collaborative leadership style with a passion for uplifting architecture capability and fostering strong engineering partnerships. Continuous Improvement Mindset: A drive to simplify complexity, reduce duplication and create sustainable technology foundations that scale with the business. What’s in it for you? We’ve worked hard to create an environment that’s big on diversity, inclusion, and flexibility, and one that suits the changing needs of team members across Australia. Here are just some of the things Tyros tell us they love about working here. You’ll also receive: A mix of in-office and remote working (3 days in the office) Learning and career development opportunities 18 weeks paid primary carers leave 12 weeks paid secondary carers leave Annual team-based volunteer day Birthday Leave Power Up Day (Additional day of leave) Weekly team social events, snacks, craft beer and wine, ping pong and video games Taco Tuesdays Mental health and wellness initiatives Novated leasing Tyro is committed to a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and are an equal opportunity employer. If you need accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, simply inform our Talent team during your conversation with them. Still with us? If you’ve got this far, then you might just be a great fit for us. Don’t tick all the boxes above? That’s ok, apply anyway and our Talent team will review your profile - you might be a fit for future roles. #LI-Hybrid Department Technology Locations Sydney Remote status Hybrid