Job Description

What’s the Role:

Join our Date Engineering & Data Platform as a Senior Solution Designer .The Senior Solution Design function plays an important role in the development of solution designs, defines interface contracts for the respective channels and ensures that they align with domain and project architectures.

The Role:

• Designing and architecting scalable, robust, and innovative solutions that address business needs and technical challenges.
• Setting the technical vision and direction and making strategic architectural and technology stack decisions.
• Working closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to understand requirements, integrate components, and align technical solutions.
• Serving as a subject matter expert and technical authority on complex problems, driving discussions, conducting code reviews, and ensuring code quality and maintainability.
• Leading and mentoring a team of developers, providing guidance, fostering professional growth, and unblocking them when they face technical hurdles.
• Overseeing project implementation from definition to delivery, including workload estimation, setting standards, and providing regular updates to stakeholders.
• Staying current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation and maintain high standards for technical excellence.

What do I need?

• Strong technical foundation in software development, hardware, networks, and modern technologies, with awareness of industry trends.
• Experience in microservices architecture, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile methodologies.
• Hands-on expertise in systems integration, legacy system migration, APIs (Swagger/Postman), and ETL tools like Informatica.
• Proficiency in database design, SQL, interface design principles, and batch processing/ETL pipelines.
• Ability to assess risks and develop mitigation strategies, while building strong relationships with architects and project teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience in both packaged and custom-built software solutions.

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

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