Technical Designer

We are seeking a Technical Designer to spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

Purpose of the role To design, develop and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organisation's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within their own discipline and will guide technical direction.

Requirements

• Strong experience designing scalable, resilient and implementable technology solutions, aligned to engineering and architectural standards.
• Broad technical expertise across APIs, integration, data, cloud/container platforms and modern engineering patterns.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end solution design, collaborating effectively across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security and Infrastructure.
• Strong risk and control mindset, embedding security, resilience, data and technology controls throughout the solution lifecycle.

Nice to Have

• Experience within banking, payments, cash management, liquidity technology or another complex regulated environment.
• Experience modernizing technology through APIs, microservices, cloud/container adoption, automation and legacy simplification.
• Experience with design governance, assurance and technical decision-making, balancing strategic direction with pragmatic delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and support collaborative, outcome-focused and continuous-improvement behaviours.