Technical Consultant

At ASB, we're all about doing what we can to help our customers get "One Step Ahead" by giving them the tools they need to manage their lives and plans for their families and future. Our products don't just serve ads or stream movies - they underpin our economy and touch people's lives.

If you've always wanted to apply your skills to a large-scale Kiwi success story, then today is your lucky day - as we are on the lookout for a Software Consultant to join us in our Cloud Enablement platform.

The Identity & Integration platform delivers reliable and innovative technology solutions at pace, leveraging our thought leadership and expertise. We are responsive, proactive, and transparent. Our goal is to have 'always on' capabilities, tomorrow's tech at tomorrow's pace, make things simple, be more awesome and embrace disruption and innovation and to enable our people to innovate at pace; simply and securely.

About the role:

We are seeking a Technical Consultant with expertise in Apache Kafka, Confluent and Datastax technologies to lead the design and implementation of a new distributed event-streaming platform as well as SDKs for internal development teams. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and data streaming solutions. This role involves collaborating with other squads, delivering reusable SDKs and enabling seamless integration with Confluent and Datastax.

About you:

We'll value your proven initiative, problem solving abilities and ways in which you have shown leadership while performing your role. We are looking for an individual that will provide leadership for the work that had been assigned to them. You will gather and refine business requirements with stakeholders across the bank. You are pragmatic and design effective solutions. You can document and present your technical designs to a wide range of audience. You have the drive to manage and deliver programmes of work to the production environment. You will be given opportunities to extend your sphere of influence beyond your squad to other squads and platforms, both to share your knowledge and experience and to extend it by drawing on the knowledge and experience of others. You will work collaboratively with our squads and stakeholders to be the voice of engineering and deliver products that delight our customers.

We are looking for someone who must have:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years of solution architecture experience
• Extensive experience with Apache Kafka, Confluent and Datastax
• Strong design and programming skills in C# .Net
• Proven track record of building SDKs, libraries, and reusable software components for development teams
• In-depth understanding of distributed systems, event streaming and data consistency patterns.
• Experience with schema management and serialization formats.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control tools like Git.

Ideally you would also have:

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration for deploying Confluent and Datastax based solutions.
• Experience with cloud platforms, in particular Azure
• Hands-on experience with security frameworks for Kafka and Datastax, including authentication, authorization and encryption
• Understanding of observability tools such as the ELK stack for monitoring
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Design and implement Confluent and Datastax using best practices.
• Design and develop highly reusable SDKs to abstract complexities of Kafka, Confluent and Datastax platforms for development teams
• Lead the implementation of core functionalities such as producers, consumers, serialization/deserialization, and configuration management.
• Guide and mentor development teams on the effective use of Kafka, Confluent and Datastax through the SDK
• Define best practices and standards for integrating with distributed messaging and database systems
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand business needs and create solutions that simplify the adoption of Confluent and Datastax
• Provide technical consulting to other development teams, enabling successful deployment and use of the SDK
• Create comprehensive technical documentation, including usage guides, examples and API references for the SDK
• Lead the development and maintenance of automated testing frameworks for SDK functionality and performance.

Working at ASB:

ASB's sense of who we are and what we stand for is grounded in our values. They guide our business in our day-to-day interactions with our team, customers and community. They are what makes ASB - ASB.

Along with our interactions, values guide our actions and conduct, making ASB a safe and inclusive environment for both our people and our customers. They show that we care, are passionate and courageous, and that we act with integrity. Most importantly they unite us - because they are ASB.

We offer a flexible and supportive work environment and an open and inclusive culture; a place where we welcome and value your individuality, ideas and goals.

If we've nailed our pitch and this role sounds like it might be the one for you then please click "apply"… we'd love to hear from you

To be considered, all applications need to be via our on-line career channels and will be treated with confidentiality.