Net + AI Development Team Lead

About the Company

Our culture is what drives us. It's at the heart of who we are and everything we do. It's what inspires, excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees, customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork. That's why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team. The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other, with our customers, and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world.

• Customer obsessed for the long-term
• Think big and make an impact
• Act now and own it all the way
• Challenge, commit and win together

Read more about The FNZ Way and our values:

About the Role (.Net + AI Development Team Lead)

This role has been created to:

• Serve to support the role requirements of Senior developers in the Analyst Developer job family.
• Provide a launching pad for transition into more senior roles in the individual contributor and leadership job families.
• Support delivery obligations to customers and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Analysis and Design

• Work with the analyst tester in the creation of user story definitions and acceptance criteria.
• Utilise your knowledge to ensure stories are constructed in a cohesive, logical way that aids smooth implementation and test.
• Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying design required to deliver these changes.
• Ensure the solution is well defined and fit-for-purpose. It must meet the requirements and work end-to-end.
• Provide solutions and recommendations for the resolution of technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design requirements.
• Help design and build APIs and external system interfaces for integration into core FNZ products and third-party vendor applications.

Development

• Interpret complex financial business requirements and translate into high-transactional, high-availability, secure, working systems.
• Lend your expertise to advise and influence the design and implementation of highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors.
• Consider non-functional requirements. We produce high-volume, real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets.
• Collaborate with other developers to make sure that the solutions developed are robust and in-line with the requirements.
• Ensure code is designed and built in a reusable manner.
• Able to build high complexity features end-to-end.
• Establish yourself as an expert in multiple system/technical areas of the FNZ platform.
• Contribute to global non-client specific projects to advance key technical strategies across FNZ.

Quality

• Adhere to the defined procedures for code management, code reviews, coding standards, naming conventions and security standards.
• Write automated unit tests for any newly created code.
• Perform manual testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and the system hasn't regressed.
• Perform code reviews for developers on their own and different projects, inside the solution centre, to ensure that proposed changes meet quality and best practice standards.
• Able to design new core system functionality or completely redesign existing ones whilst maintaining quality.

Collaboration and Communication

• Promote the development team both internally and externally.
• Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design / solutions.
• Mentor new starters to ensure they understand both platform and SDLC.
• Provide solution centre-wide training, as required, on topics of personal expertise.
• Support the project lead developer and function as a squad lead if required.

Technology

• Stay up to date with industry practices, new technologies, tools and methods.
• Proactive evaluate and provide recommendations to the business on technologies and tools which could be adopted.
• Take ownership of and resolve technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress.
• Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested.
• Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts.

Qualifications

• First class bachelors degree or higher and/or equivalent experience.
• Experience of working on large scale technology delivery projects and successfully delivering technology change as part of these projects.
• Confident, and able to take a lead role in a delivery-focused environment.
• Experience of working with different levels of stakeholders within a project environment.
• Independent, self-directing working style.
• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry.
• Enjoy working as part of a high-performance team.
• Hard-working, innovative and takes pride in their work.
• Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers.

Required Skills

• Expert in Microsoft .NET development products, including .NET, C# and SQL Server.
• Should have hands on Experience in AI/ML (Gen AI OR Semantic Kernel OR MCP OR LangGraph OR Agentic AI)
• Expert in web development, including ASP.NET, JavaScript and ReactJS.
• Experience with the following legacy development products would be beneficial: ASP.NET MVC, VB.NET, legacy .NET Framework versions.
• Familiarity with financial products and markets.
• Understanding of web services.
• Familiar with code analysis or automated testing tools.