Technical Consultant

**Open Locations - **Canberra/Melbourne/Sydney**

**Company Profile**:
Daon’s solutions provide our customers with security and flexibility, making it easier and safer for people to conduct business online, travel, vote, and so much more.

Daon’s IdentityX® Platform for mobile biometric assurance and authentication eases the journey to eKYC assurance, removes friction from the authentication process and dramatically reduces identity fraud. IdentityX allows businesses to conduct transactions with any consumer at any time with total confidence.

**The Part You’ll Play - Role Summary**:
You will have hands-on responsibility for IdentityX implementation, and for educating, guiding and advising our clients in best practices deployment of Daon IdentityX.
- Willing and able to act autonomously under the direction of a project manager and/or Principal Technical Personnel
- Experienced in the development of business solutions for mobile and web-based users
- Have the capability to clearly articulate appropriate methodologies for deployment of Daon technology and SDK’s, to an audience grounded in the development community for Identity Assurance and Authentication
- Able to help Daon’s customers to deploy and integrate IdentityX technology by providing robust and scalable solutions, built to handle the performance demands of millions of end users.

**Essential Functions & Role Responsibilities**:

- Development (coding and unit testing) of various product artefacts as required by Daon’s customers, using a variety of mobile and backend technologies - including Android/Java, Objective-C/Swift, HTML5, API Services,.NET, JSON and SQL technologies
- Mapping of customer requirements onto the design and deployment of successful IdentityX deployments
- Documentation of design and design decisions, plus delivery of all solution collateral
- Coordination with other team members, to ensure that project deliverables are on time and meet or exceed client requirements
- Identification of risks, issues and other challenges, with recommended resolution to Clients, Principal Consultant or Project Manager
- Timely communication with internal and customer stakeholders
- Provision of technology deep-dive, and assistance with complex UAT and go-live scenarios
- Assistance in pre-sales engagements, to identify project requirements, implementation strategy, schedule, etc
- Supporting the Field (Direct & Partner) Sales teams, by educating prospective customers about Daon's products. This includes conference calls, site visits, presentations, technical evaluations, technical objection handling, and follow up on all customer related issues
- Distilling customer project experience and feedback into practical suggestions for product improvement
- Other duties will be assigned as the role evolves and the business develops.

**Critical Success Factors - Knowledge & Experience**:

- Strong working knowledge in mobile development with a focus on the Android environment.
- Proficient in Java/Kotlin/Gradle and HTTP communication and 3rd-party frameworks. (eg. RxJava, Retrofit, Dagger)
- Proven experience and knowledge of Android UI design and native capabilities, Biometric/Camera API, push notification,
- Desirable additional skills:

- iOS app development, with both Objective-c and Swift
- Knowledge of mobile app frameworks such as React Native and Ionic.
- Strong API web service design and development experience, including an understanding of enterprise system integration concepts (reliability, scalability, transactionality, security etc.)
- Developer knowledge of enterprise relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server)
- Experience in information security, biometrics, Public Key Infrastructure is a major plus
- Working knowledge of cloud based platforms such as AWS, GCP and Azure.
- Understanding of Identity & Access Management architectures and products (e.g. Forgerock, Ping Identity) is a plus.