About

• Company Description
• Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders
• Closing date: 3rd October 2025
• Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies
• Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier
• Job Description
• Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.
• We support nearly two million members, with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.
• Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.
• This role’s primary purpose is to help leverage Rest’s data capabilities to enable better and more targeted
• experiences through Rest’s digital channels. The role acts as a conduit and a technical SME bridging the
• gap between the data and digital platforms. The role will provide technical leadership and implementation
• capacity designing and implementing technical solutions involving the data, API and digital platforms.
• Support solution architects in designing scalable, secure, and high-performing technical solutions
• Create detailed technical designs for solutions involving the data, API and digital platforms
• Implement (andor support other teams in implementing) technical solutions across the data, API and digital platforms
• Ensure technical solutions align with architectural, data and engineering strategies, principles and
• standards
• Lead the technical delivery of data-driven solutions including reporting, analytics, and digital experience enablement
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and proactively propose new features, enhancements, and highlight innovation opportunities (e.g. customer 360 enrichment, advanced analytics); assess applicability and propose innovative solutions.
• Partner with product owners, business stakeholders, architects, data scientists, analysts, QA, UX, and engineering teams to translate business and product requirements into technical solutions; ensure clarity in scope, requirements, and delivery outcomes.
• Identify and address risks related to data quality, scalability, integration, and platform resilience
• Support effective operational management of in-scope solutions including technical problem-solving, incident resolution, and ongoing system optimisation
• Follow and enforce Rest software engineering standards and best practices including coding standards & guidelines and code review processes to ensure high-quality, well-documented, maintainable code
• Collaborate within agile teams and participate in team planning, estimation, reviews, stand-ups and retrospectives
• Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Cloud certifications are desirable
• Data Platforms & Analytics (Snowflake, GCP, GA4, Personalisation Engines, BI Tools, Data Pipelines)
• Experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFormation (or related tools, ideally
• CDK)
• Experience with Mobile App and web development technologies
• Hands on experience with CI/CD tools and automation (e.g. Git, GitHub, AWS CodePipeline or similar)
• Minimum 5 years of experience with NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Git
• Minimum 5 years of experience delivering cloud-native (AWS) solutions, ideally serverless
• Proven understanding of QA techniques like code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, TDD
• Experience building consumer facing solutions using micro-services patterns
• Experience with business and technical requirements analysis
• Experience delivering within Agile teams and understanding of Agile values
• AWS experience – EventBridge, DynamoDB and RDS, CloudFront, WAF, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, VPC,
• EC2, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild
• Enjoys and seeks continuous learning and keeps up to date with industry developments and best
• practices. end Integrations, APIs, and Enterprise Data Ecosystem
• Additional Information

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include

• Personal and professional development opportunities
• Hybrid working
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
• Linkedin Learning
• Income Protection Insurance
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours)
• Rest Stops - meeting free breaks
• If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.
• Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.
• We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.
• Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.
• *Funds under management as at 30 June 2024. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.