Solution Designer

Solution Designer
- Permanent opportunity
- Gold Coast location
- Be a part of a world class team

**How will I help?**

As a hands-on Solution Designer, you're responsible for discovery and producing high-level solution designs by consulting with architects, tech/business stakeholders, and external providers such as Schemes and supporting engineers to build the required capability. You will also engage with various stakeholders and become an expert in your domain whilst supporting the broader engineering community.

Digital and Consumer Finance technology team works with the business team in transforming the business vision into reality by planning and delivering the projects along with our strategic partners. Work in a fast-paced and agile environment, contributing to major transformation programs and supporting the Digital & Consumer Finance technology systems in Originations and Servicing.

Key accountabilities:

- Leading, driving, exploring options, being creative and basically doing what it takes to achieve a quality Solution Design
- Takes ownership of the overall end-state for solutions, create designs that meet Westpac standards to provide reliable, stable, and operationally sound solutions that meet business requirements while adhering to architectural principles and industry best practices.
- Supports the solution architect in understanding current state and impacts of solution architectures for programs, projects etc
- Convert requirements into architectures and solution designs that make up the blueprint for a solution for projects that do not require involvement from a solution architect.
- Lead alignment of end-to-end design developed by different teams and ensure that it meets business requirements. Accountable for build, test and implementations
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including architects, business analysts, and project managers, to ensure alignment, effective communication, and seamless delivery of solutions.
- Supports IT estimations process and assist in delivery of detailed IT costings for solutions.
- Provide expert technical guidance and support to development teams wherever required and oversee the low-level design, build and testing.

**What's in it for me?**

You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.
All roles at Westpac Group can be considered for flexible working arrangements, such as flexible hours, working remotely, part time work, or job sharing.

**What do I need?**

**Experience**:
**Essential**
- 5+ years of experience in similar role preferably in consumer products originations(Cards/Personal Loans)
- 10+ years of overall IT industrial / SDLC experience
- 5+ years of experience in developing micro services /Restful APIs using Spring boot, Java, Kafka, SQL, DB2, Azure technologies.
- Excellent analysis and design skills with technical problem-solving
- Experience in design principles and standards.
- Experience in API security and authentication & authorisation patterns.

**Desirable**
- Degree or equivalent in science, computer science, information technology
- Automation and efficiency improvement:

- CI/CD tools ie Git, bitbucket, Jenkins or bamboo.
- React JS, Redux, Node JS, HTML5, CSS3 & Java Script.
- Splunk/App Dynamics
- Financial Services Industry experience
- Innovative and keep up with emerging technologies.

**What's it like to work there?**

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other's passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We'll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you're in control of where you start and how you'll grow.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

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