Solution Architect
Location: Sydney, Australia
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Reference ID: JR103308
ApplyOur DevOps culture is strong: we believe in “release small, release often.” Thanks to our fully automated CI/CD pipelines, we push over 13,000 releases to production every year, delivering value to customers in real time. We use modern technologies across backend, frontend, apps, data and infrastructure, and we’re continuously evolving. We tackle complex engineering challenges such as real-time scalability, database migrations with no downtime, and peak transaction loads, all while maintaining an exceptional and safe customer experience.
Turning skills into thrills
- Technical Expertise
- Strategic Thinking and Innovative
- Adaptive Problem-Solving & Experimentation
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Agility & Adaptability
- Curiosity & Continuous Learning
Turning skills into thrills
Culture points
We take pride in what we do and strive for excellence. We embrace challenges, take initiative, and push boundaries to achieve the best results. With a strong performance-driven mindset, we focus on creating value and continuously aim higher.
We take ownership of our goals and understand our role in delivering results. We seek feedback, take responsibility from start to finish, and hold ourselves to high standards. With a mindset of continuous improvement, we challenge ourselves to grow and do better every day.
We are one team, united by a shared purpose. We work together, support each other, and put the Group’s success first. We embrace diversity, stay open-minded, and face challenges with courage and care. By trusting and lifting one another, we create an environment where we can all thrive.
Solution Architect
At FDJ UNITED, we don't just follow the game, we reinvent it.
FDJ UNITED is one of Europe’s leading betting and gaming operators, with a vast portfolio of iconic brands and a reputation for technological excellence. With more than 5,000 employees and a presence in around fifteen regulated markets, the Group offers a diversified, responsible range of games, both under exclusive rights and open to competition. We set new standards, proving that entertainment and safety can go hand in hand. Here, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to delivering the best and safest entertaining experiences for our customers every day.
We’re looking for bold people who are eager to succeed and ready to level-up the game. If you thrive on innovation, embrace challenges, and want to make a real impact at all levels, FDJ UNITED is your playing field.
Join us in shaping the future of gaming. Are you ready to LEVEL-UP THE GAME?
We're looking for an exceptionally skilled and highly motivated Solution Architect to join the existing Architecture Practice to oversee and support our expanding Engineering capability - both within Australia and the rest of the Group.Aside from technical excellence, creativity, communication, commercial acumen and resourcefulness are essential skills for this role. Successful candidates must have excellent communication and leadership skills, depth of technical expertise and the ability to work effectively with a broad range of technical and business stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
- Establish, ratify and advocate principles and practices for managing key application assets within the organisation.
- Take ownership of the design and delivery of complex, performance-intensive products. Advise and support multi-disciplinary Engineering teams throughout all phases of the delivery.
- Collaborate with the broader Architecture and Engineering community to maintain conceptual integrity and sustainably evolve our solution portfolio.
- Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to the Engineering community.
- Create and Maintain documentation using industry-standard tooling — e.g., Confluence and various diagramming tools, such as Draw.io, Gliffy, Lucid, etc.
- Ensure that solutions remain compliant, covering such aspects as privacy (GDPR), financial (AML/CTF) and wagering regulation.
Essential skills & required experience
- Demonstrable experience in the design and delivery of complex, distributed systems. This includes microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Experience in data modelling for a variety of persistence paradigms (relational, K-V, graph, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with the following technologies: Postgres, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes.
- An engineering background with demonstrable/verifiable expertise in one or more contemporary programming languages; e.g., Java, .NET, Python, JS/TypeScript, Go, Rust, etc.
- Ability to actively liaise with business and technical stakeholders across the business.
- People focus, as this is very much a team sport.
NOTE: This is a hands-on role with a particular focus on architecture and design, requiring close collaboration with several highly experienced engineering teams. You'll be responsible for setting architectural direction and advising seasoned practitioners. As such, we are not looking for "enterprise" architects at this stage.
We believe talent knows no boundaries. Our hiring process focuses solely on your skills, experience, and potential to contribute to our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and evaluate each candidate based on merit, regardless of personal characteristics as the age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity or disability.
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A European gaming champion
FDJ UNITED is a European leader in betting and gaming, trusted for its iconic brands and technological strength across around 15 regulated markets. We’re rapidly digitising our lottery business and expanding our sports-betting footprint, creating exciting opportunities to build the next generation of player experiences. Here you’ll work on high-impact projects: modernising platforms, scaling data-driven personalisation, and developing tools that both delight customers and protect them. Our goal is to strengthen customer relationships through smarter identification and insights. That means meaningful, purpose-driven work, from customer service to marketing, product design, compliance and more. All within an international, innovation-focused environment. We are shaping the future of gaming, join us!
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