Engineer - Futures Trading Technology chez ASX

ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you’re 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, you’ll 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. 

Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.

www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work

We 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.

We’re proud of the diversity of our organisation and the culture of inclusion that all our people help to build every day. Our employee-led groups are known for celebrating cultural and religious events, championing LGBTIQ+ inclusion (recently achieving AWEI Bronze), inspiring giving and volunteering, promoting gender equality, and wellbeing.  We are an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (WGEA) and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for the advancement of gender equality in Australia. 

What you will be doing:

• Develop constructive, practical and diverse testing and quality engineering processes, procedures and methodologies that are relevant to ASX, that are aligned to ASX risk appetite and regulatory obligations, that facilitate business outcomes, and that contribute towards the quality goals of the enterprise as a whole, of ASX’s Lines of Business (LOBs), and of project/program delivery teams.
• Identify, validate and promote opportunities for improvement related to the testing and quality processes and methods. Prioritise these opportunities and gain endorsement to introduce new and improved ways of working into the organisation.
• Define and deliver controlled, risk-appropriate, and streamlined implementation plans that drive the successful and sustained adoption of new and improved testing and quality processes, procedures and methodologies.
• Validate that processes, procedures and methodologies are achieving their intended outcomes, are effective and efficient, are sustainable, and are demonstrably improving the quality of products/systems/software and the efficacy of quality, testing and risk mitigation activities across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Work with the Quality Engineering and Testing Capability Practice team to:
• Establish a robust capability that delivers empathetic coaching, guidance and support to ensure readiness and adoption of new ways of working for our enterprise, LOBs, and delivery teams.
• Contribute to developing and maturing the ASX quality engineering and testing policies, governance, assurance practices, and continuous improvement framework that set the direction, context and objectives for testing and quality engineering at ASX.
• Establish acceptable testing standards aligned to ASX risk appetite and requirements, and support an uplift program to align quality engineering and testing at ASX to internationally-accepted industry standards (ISO29119) at Capability Maturity Model (CMMi) Level 4 (or equivalent).

• Provide consultative support and coaching to test teams embedded within ASX’s LOBs and delivery teams to uplift and drive successful adoption of testing and quality engineering processes, procedures and methodologies.
• Support the capability to implement and measure the quality of products and the efficacy of testing processes and methodologies to provide transparency and confidence about the value of the testing practices, to provide consistent measures related to quality and risk coverage, and to enable data-driven decision-making and actions across the LOBs and delivery teams.
• Promote, communicate and embed ASX’s testing and quality engineering vision, policies, standards, and ways of working across the enterprise.
• Work with external testing partners to foster and mature the partnerships, to ensure ASX is gaining maximum value from the partnerships, and to ensure that partner testing efforts comply with ASX’s vision, policies, standards, and ways of working.
• Being an active member of the QE&T Community of Practice (CoP). 

What you will bring:

Must have

• Experience in delivering major programs of work in a complex, agile environment.
• Worked with, and delivered on, enterprise CI/CD capabilities and tools, providing guidance on best practices and helping enable major programs to deliver business value.
• Demonstrated experience working in a Senior Cloud Engineering role in public, private and hybrid cloud environments.
• A strong understanding of cloud engineering principles underpinned by design and development experience with one or more cloud environments such GCP, AWS and VMware.
• Experience with running multi cloud environments and a strong understanding of multitenancy and security implications.
• Knowledge and experience with cloud concepts such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
• Experience of cloud infrastructure automation.
• Experience in working with cloud deployment and orchestration technologies at scale with strong knowledge of the fundamentals to include service discovery, deployment, monitoring, scheduling, and load balancing.
• Knowledge of containerisation concepts and implementation considerations.
• Experience with complex data structures and semi structured data (JSON, XML).
• Experience with Design Governance, taking responsibility for the end-to-end software design process across a large program of work, collaborating with Architecture, Engineering, Developers, and Suppliers.
• Curiosity and Compassion.

Nice to have

• Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Architecture certifications on AWS or GCP.
• Understanding of Cloud Native frame works and landscape.
• Work experience in highly regulated environments with significant compliance and audit activities.
• Working in a cross-functional, agile delivery team.
• Experience working with Java8+.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GoCD, GitLab, Cloud Build, or Code Build.
• Experience in developing Data APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
• Experience in building and working with Docker container-based services or other CRE.
• Understand challenges and trade-offs building, deploying, and running solutions in different environments.
• Comfortable presenting at Architecture and Design governance forums.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role. If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know.

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.