FNZ Group - Team Lead - .Net

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 hasnt 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 :

- 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 :

- 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.