Senior Solutions Designer Sydney, Nsw, Australia Posted On 02/08/2024 Be The First To Apply

Senior Solution Designer  In Westpac GroupTech we are striving to be game-changing technologists, shaping the future of banking. We understand the big picture and focus on things that will move the dial for the Westpac Group. The Westpac Group has a complex Information Technology environment that needs to deliver to the rapidly changing needs of our customers and employees, the ever-evolving IT landscape, and the Group's regulatory and statutory requirements. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Solution Designer to join Westpac Group Technology, working in the Business Lending Technology team. This team is responsible for proactively maintaining, enhancing, and efficiently operating a suite of technology assets that Business Lending depends on.  How will I help? As the Senior Solution Designer, your responsibilities include; Work effectively individually and with team members towards customer satisfaction and success. Experience and Knowledge of Agile and Scrum Process and coordinate with distributed teams Participate in client meetings to communicate status or give demos. Be keenly aware of timelines and budgeting to deliver in a timely manner. Abide by team coding standards, development processes and best practices. Design solutions from the vision, down to the application and infrastructure architecture level. Contribute to the transformation and evolution of our enterprise architecture. Pro-actively define new measures to meet business needs, improve efficient, and improve agility. Develop solution architecture documents and review technical documents from Solution Architects for projects in the credit cards and collections domain. Identify opportunities to leverage group capabilities, shared domain capabilities for projects within the Business Lending landscape Identify design issues that could impact other services within domain and proposing common design. Recognize opportunities to increase agility and reduce costs and risks for design affecting not only at project but also across domain level. Promote Agile practices and ceremonies. Identify and engage relevant stakeholders, including architecture disciplines, asset owners, delivery owner, business stakeholders and SMEs to ensure the solution is optimal, and has the greatest chance of success. Develop Solution Architectures and associated documents (TSA and HLSD) for a project. Architecture should respond to the function and non-functional requirements and extend or leverage strategic assets where relevant. Participate in concept and planning stages. Lead workshops and engage stakeholders as required. Lead and participate in problem solving to deliver large scale change through process engineering, technology, and people engagement. Provide an architectural governance function for the design and build deliverables to ensure traceability of the built solution to the architectural principles and business objectives. Work with the Westpac Enterprise Architecture team to manage the alignment of the program's architecture to the Bank's Enterprise Architecture. Lead the technical design process coordinating the various stakeholders from business and towards an agreed solution. What is in it for me? You will play an important and significant part in the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our vision is to become one of the world's great service companies. So, we will back you in the development of your career, with internal career prospects and flexible working. You will also be backed by a fantastic team of people in a can-do, supportive structure.  What do I need? You will be a  high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to function under pressure in an independent environment. Self-motivated to drive results, while organising, managing, planning, and controlling several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs. Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, presentation skills with excellent leadership and relationship skills to influence a matrix-based team. Your experience may also include previously working in a similar rolewith knowledge in solution architecture, system design and contemporary IT practices. Experience in selecting and implementing methodologies with focus on Lean and Agile methodologies. To be successful in this Senior  Solution Designer role, you will have the following skills: 10+ years of experience in solution design and application development using multiple technologies using Java, J2EE, Hibernate, EJB, Web Services, XML, REST, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Web Sphere and IBM FileNet 5.1 and BAW. Exposure to the financial industry preferably banking. 10+ years of experience in application design and solution with integration with complex downstream systems. 5+ API design and development experience for Microservices Experience with systems development (Agile and Waterfall), support and maintenance and experience with systems integration. Analysis, problem solving, troubleshooting and consultative skills Full web technology stack (e.g HTTP, cookies, headers, asset loading/caching Experience in TDD. Shell scripting and Java experience (Hibernate, Spring and Spring Boot) Relational databases experience in design and development (SQL and Oracle) Experience with systems development, support and maintenance, with experience with systems integration Knowledge of CS including responsive design, grid patterns and modern web forms. Require JS/Common JS modules. AWS development experience (EC2, ELB, Kinesis, S3, Lambda, RDS) DevOps experience (AWS, Ansible and Jenkins) Expert in enterprise architecture, including integration technologies using JMS, MQ, REST API and Web Services and J2EE. Experience in delivering major business solutions into production within multiple project teams Knowledge of Enterprise Architect disciplines and frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) Excellent stakeholder management skills Strong communication and inter-personal skills Education: Tertiary level qualifications in IT, Computer Science, or a related discipline What is it like to work here? As well as good pay and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth, and insurance benefits in the market. We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.  As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion. How do I Apply? Start here. Just click on the APPLY button. As part of our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, this role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, people with a disability and Indigenous Australians to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr