Senior Solution Designer

Senior Solution Designer – 52552 
 

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How will I help?

As a hands-on Senior Solution Designer, you’re responsible for 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 and expert in your domain whilst supporting the broader engineering community. 

The 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 and Consumer Finance technology systems in Originations and Servicing. 

You will be responsible for the following: 

• 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 


• Create clear and concise documentation, including design documents, sequence diagrams and technical specifications which are easily understandable by applications designers and developers. 


• 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.

 

What do I need?

To be successful in this role you should be experienced in a similar role, preferably in consumer products originations (Cards/ Personal Loans) and you should have 10+ years of overall IT industrial / SDLC experience. You should be a customer focused individual with great problem solving and analytical skills. 

The below technical skills are required for this role: 

• Experience in developing micro services / restful API’s using Springboot, java, Kafka, SQL, DB2, Azure technologies 


• Excellent analysis and design skills with technical problem-solving 


• CI/CD tools it. Git, bitbucket, Jenkins or bamboo is desirable 


• React JS, Redux, node JS, HTML5, CSS3 and Java script is desirable 


• It would be great if you had Splunk/App Dynamics 

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.

Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us.

How do I apply?

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At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.

We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au.

Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
 

We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au