Lead Engineer – Digital Platforms

Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders

Closing date: 21st November 2025

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier

Job Description

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia's largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they're more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

Your primary purpose in this role will be to help leverage Rest's data capabilities to enable better and more targeted experiences through Rest's digital channels. The role acts as a conduit and a technical SME bridging the gap between the data and digital platforms. The role will provide technical leadership and implementation capacity designing and implementing technical solutions involving the data, API and digital platforms.

• Collaborate with product owners, data scientists, digital experience designers, analysts, and architects to translate business goals into robust technical solutions that deliver measurable digital and data outcomes.
• Partner with solution architects to design cloud-native, scalable, and secure digital solutions that enable seamless data flow, advanced analytics, and high-performance digital experiences.
• Develop detailed technical solutions for end-to-end solutions spanning data platforms, APIs, and digital experience layers, ensuring interoperability and performance.
• Lead the technical implementation of data-driven digital solutions including reporting, analytics, and digital experience enablement across the data, API and digital platforms.
• Ensure all technical implementations align with enterprise data, digital architecture, and engineering strategies, adhering to best practices and standards in data governance, integration, and security.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and proactively propose new features, enhancements, and highlight innovation opportunities (e.g. customer 360 enrichment, advanced analytics); assess applicability and propose innovative solutions.
• Identify and proactively mitigate risks related to data quality, pipeline performance, integration scalability, and digital platform reliability.
• Support effective operational management of in-scope solutions including technical problem-solving, incident resolution, and ongoing system optimisation.
• Follow and enforce Rest software engineering standards and best practices including coding standards & guidelines and code review processes to ensure high-quality, well-documented, maintainable code.
• Collaborate within agile teams and participate in team planning, estimation, reviews, stand-ups and retrospectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Cloud certifications are desirable
• Strong experience with data platforms and analytics ecosystems e.g. Snowflake, GCP BigQuery, Google Analytics 4, Personalization Engines, BI tools, and Data Pipeline orchestration.
• Proven experience developing and integrating cloud-native digital solutions using AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFormation/CDK, and related tools.
• Background in digital experience engineering, including Mobile App and web development technologies
• Hands on experience with CI/CD tools and automation (e.g. Git, GitHub, AWS CodePipeline or similar)
• Experience with NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, delivering scalable, cloud-based applications.
• Experience delivering cloud-native (AWS) solutions, ideally serverless.
• Experience building consumer-facing, data-enabled digital solutions leveraging micro-services patterns.
• Familiarity with enterprise data and integration ecosystems, including APIs, real-time data flows, and digital platform interconnectivity.
• Proven understanding of QA techniques like code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, TDD
• Experience with business and technical requirements analysis
• Experience delivering within Agile teams and understanding of Agile values
• AWS experience - EventBridge, DynamoDB and RDS, CloudFront, WAF, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, VPC, EC2, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild
• Enjoys and seeks continuous learning and keeps up to date with industry developments and best practices. end Integrations, APIs, and Enterprise Data Ecosystem

Additional Information

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities
• Hybrid working
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
• Linkedin Learning
• Income Protection Insurance
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest's values and behaviours)
• Rest Stops - meeting free breaks

If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a
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Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2024. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.