Technical Lead Ui

• Lead innovative UI development projects at one of Australia's premier financial institutions.
• Collaborate with diverse teams in a supportive and dynamic work environment.
• Enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work model based in Sydney.

How Will I Help?

As a Tech Lead UI within our Digital Engineering team, you'll be instrumental in developing and maintaining technical solutions to meet the evolving needs of our customers and employees. Your role will involve:

• Providing expert technical guidance to GroupTech and Application Development Services teams.
• Hands-on coding when required, ensuring the robustness and scalability of our UI solutions.
• Taking ownership of different parts of applications and evolving into the go-to person for each solution.
• Passionately tackling challenges related to scale, performance, and security.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across the business and technical spectrum.
• Advocating for agile methodologies and applying Lean and Design Thinking principles.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of applications throughout their lifecycle.

Technical and Industry Expertise:

• Minimum 8 years of overall IT experience.
• Minimum 3 years hands-on experience with React, JavaScript, and TypeScript, along with exposure to modern JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS, Redux, and NodeJs.
• Experience writing automated tests for front end and backend with test frameworks such as Cypress, Jest, Ava, Supertest.
• Skills in developing applications using SPA architecture, build systems, cross-browser compatibility, HTML5/CSS layout, including SASS, UI/UX knowledge, and wireframing.
• RESTful API design and implementation experience.
• Experience with Microservices and Swagger.
• Experience with design patterns.
• Proficiency in Scrum/Agile development methodologies and continuous delivery.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to mentor junior/senior developers and review code for quality and compliance.
• Advanced problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Experience with GraphQL, NodeJS/ExpressJS, WebSocket/Socket.io, TypeScript, Webpack, NPM, Angular.
• Applied understanding of technical concepts of enterprise architecture and contemporary IT strategies.
• Experience working in a large organization and understanding of engineering at scale and security standards.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
• Passion for DevOps principles and practices, including TDD and BDD.
• Integration experience with other business systems.
• Exposure to the Digital domain and agile team environments.
• Proficiency in instrumenting systems with monitoring and alerting mechanisms.

We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us reach our vision to become one of the world's great service companies. As an equal opportunity employer, we're proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

How do I Apply?

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At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email ***************@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 call 1800 655 592 Option 2.3 or email ***************@westpac.com.au