ASX: Powering Australias financial markets

Why join the ASX

When you join ASX youre joining a company with a strong purpose to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role youll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.

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are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.

We run critical market infrastructure with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations program delivery financial products investor engagement risk and compliance.

Were proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ inclusion promote gender equality accessibility and wellbeing inspire giving and volunteering and celebrate cultural and religious events creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality were committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

About the team:

Implement technical solution develop and execute technology requirements aligning to the Enterprise Architecture plans and practises meeting the current and future needs of the business within Markets technology division supporting Market Announcement and Reference data systems.

This is a cross-functional platform team responsible for support and enhancement of ASX Market Announcement Platform and Reference data management system.

What you will be doing:

• Assess and map business requirements to technical solutions creating the stepping stone for the build work.

• Adhere to software development life cycle best practices performing detailed analysis technical design implementing complex code changes unit testing the changes creating release artefacts and maintaining the applications post-production deployment.

• Uphold solution integrity by evaluating options for technical implementation engage with Architecture Engineering Security Infrastructure and Product teams within ASX without compromising the integrity performance scalability or reliability of the system.

• Endorse new technologies frameworks and tools to improve development efficiency. Establish and maintain technical standards guidelines and best practices across the engineering phases.

• Assist in planning and implementation of software release through various environments. Ensure Change Control process is closely adhered to including appropriate risk assessments & mitigation actions communications to the relevant business technology stakeholders.

• Understand and analyse the interdependencies within complex systems design and troubleshoot effectively anticipating how changes in one part of the system might impact other dependencies.

• Be part of a cross-functional team actively interacting with the members of the team contributing to delivering to end-to-end solutions and thus adding value to stakeholders.

• Communicate effectively participate in project and BAU meetings scrums contribute effectively to the team deliverables ensuring efforts are aligned toward achieving team goals.

What you will bring:

Must have

• 10 years of engineering experience with Java spring boot bash python RDBMS Enterprise Messaging Java and Jboss EAP

• Exposure to AWS Analytics (Athena Data zone Glue)

• Event management alerting and monitoring (ELK Grafana) tools experience.

• Familiarity in integration technologies including API Realtime messaging and streaming architectures like Kafka.

• Understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts virtualization role-based access identity and access management framework load balancers firewalls and networking concepts.

• Knowledge of application design principles for micro services containerisation API integration

• Experience with DevOps and Continuous Integration tools (GITLAB Nexus SonarQube)

• Analytical and problem-solving skill and curiosity to tackle any complex or new problem

• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and switch between concurrent work streams

Nice to have:

• Experience working in Capital Markets Industry with a solid understanding of product and transaction lifecycles.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work with internal and external stakeholders.

• Lateral thinker bring forward ideas that will automate repeatable tasks to reduce work effort and ensure quality deliverables

• Learn quickly enjoy the challenge of learning new systems

• Compassionate empathetic and self-motivated with continuous improvement mindset

• Take ownership and not be afraid to acknowledge failure

We make hiring decisions based on your skills capabilities and experience and how youll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you dont meet all the criteria of this role.

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At ASX Group our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks including reference and police checks completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.