The opportunity to join our team
At Insignia Financial, we are evolving our Wrap platform to deliver greater flexibility, reliability, and capability at scale. This role sits at the centre of that transformation, shaping the future state of our technical ecosystem while working closely with engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders. You will play a key role in how we modernise our platform, solve complex challenges, and deliver meaningful outcomes for advisers and members. The work is varied, technical, and highly visible, giving you the opportunity to influence platform direction and partner with experienced leaders and engineers to drive real impact.
You will lead the design and direction of solutions across the Wrap platform, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and aligned to long term strategy.
- Provide technical leadership and direction across the full technology lifecycle
- Design end to end solutions that balance performance, scalability, availability, and technical debt
- Lead design reviews, walkthroughs, and solution validation activities
- Identify and resolve issues impacting architecture, application integrity, and platform simplicity
- Support engineering teams with problem diagnosis and root cause analysis
- Contribute to design, technical analysis, and delivery of software where required
- Drive service optimisation, modelling, and performance outcomes
- Lead and contribute to agile ceremonies and cross team forums
- Support enterprise initiatives and assess their impact across the Wrap value stream
- Ensure adherence to engineering standards, practices, and governance expectations
A taste of our tech stack
- Microfrontends built in JavaScript (ES6) using React and Redux.
- Kotlin, Java, Groovy
- Dropwizard based microservices built in Kotlin, Java and Groovy
- Data stored in MongoDB and MySQL
- Other tools to help get the job done include Elasticsearch, Kafka and RabbitMQ
- Containerized deployments with Docker
- Ever changing and constantly evolving
What You Bring to This Role
You bring deep experience in solution design within complex enterprise environments, with the ability to influence both technical and business outcomes.
- 10+ years experience in technology, including 5+ years in solution design or software development
- Strong grounding in object oriented design and modern engineering principles
- Experience designing across complex, integrated systems and microservices architectures
- Exposure to both custom built and packaged solutions, including vendor integration
- Strong understanding of full SDLC, agile practices, and continuous delivery
- Experience with DevOps, infrastructure automation, and modern web technologies
- Familiarity with UI and UX considerations and test automation approaches
- Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing capability
- Ability to work across multiple business areas to shape solutions and build alignment
- Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience
A little about the team
Software development at Insignia Financial is not like your typical enterprise company. Our engineering culture is rooted in agile values, a rare thing for companies of our breed. Some of the highlights of our culture include:
- We hire talented people and get out of their way
- Our agile teams are cross functional and self-organising
- We have minimal hierarchy and organisational red tape
- We encourage and promote grass roots leadership from within our teams
- Continuous improvement is our focus
- We favour collaboration over rigid process
Find the better way
What gets us excited about working here? Helping people feel good about their money as one of Australia’s leading financial wellbeing organisations. From those starting out to those retiring. As your team, we’ll show up for you and together we will create financial wellbeing for every Australian. Because we know people who are confident about their financial future live better lives.
If this sounds like your kind of career, you sound like our kind of person. With us, you’ll do work that builds your technical know-how and challenges our entire industry to move forward. Along the way, you’ll be free to explore new ideas and technology, solve problems in a team, and independently to get great things done. Around here, we like to call it “putting our fingerprints on the future”.
People-inspired tech
Deep expertise combined with creativity can take on the trickiest of problems. Join our team of brilliant minds and mentors as we explore our way to innovation and apply technology in more human ways than ever.
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To Apply
Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.
Please note that applications from agencies will not be considered at this time.
We acknowledge and celebrate the richness that individual differences bring to our team. If you need assistance or an adjustment during the application process, please reach out and let us know.
