1 day ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Identify material technical constraints and decisions across complex, cross-team engineering areas.
- Guide interaction and data-pattern choices across APIs, events, REST, gRPC, and asynchronous workflows.
- Prototype or implement high-risk elements to validate feasibility, security, operability, and migration assumptions.
- Create adoption paths that help multiple squads transition safely while maintaining service continuity.
- Develop reusable patterns, automation, clearer boundaries, and improved observability to reduce operational toil.
- Influence technical direction through design reviews, mentoring, pairing, documentation, coaching, and incident learning.
- Enable autonomous delivery by keeping decisions close to accountable teams and avoiding unnecessary centralization.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience solving complex engineering problems spanning multiple services, platforms, products, data domains, or squads.
- Deep expertise in at least one relevant engineering domain and broad knowledge of distributed systems, integration, data, security, reliability, and production operations.
- Strong design judgment across APIs, events, asynchronous workflows, contracts, compatibility, data ownership, consistency, resilience, migration, and failure handling.
- Ability to write or review code, create prototypes, test risky assumptions, and produce concise technical decisions.
- Experience with modern software delivery practices, including Git, continuous integration and delivery, automated testing, containers, cloud services, infrastructure as code, observability, and secure dependency management.
- Strong security, privacy, and risk mindset, including the ability to translate enterprise guardrails into practical engineering controls.
- Experience influencing technical direction across teams without formal authority, including coaching senior engineers.
- Clear communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Relevant or transferable experience in digital engineering, data and AI engineering, contact centre technology, cloud-native engineering, platform capabilities, or regulated and high-availability environments is useful but not required in every area.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement, with location and working arrangements confirmed for each vacancy.
- Special offers on banking products and discounts from leading brands, including eligible employee-only mortgage rates.
- Flexible work arrangements and leave options including Culture, Lifestyle, and Wellbeing leave.
- Learning and development opportunities to deepen technical expertise, broaden influence, and grow a career within the bank.
- Opportunities to support the community through Westpac volunteering initiatives.
- Inclusive workplace support, including recruitment adjustments and alternative formats when needed.
About Westpac
Westpac is an Australian banking group that provides retail, business, and institutional banking, payments, and wealth/insurance services to consumers and enterprises. Founded in 1817 and headquartered in Sydney, it operates across Australia and New Zealand under brands including Westpac, St.George, BankSA, Bank of Melbourne, BT Financial Group, and RAMS. Its business model centers on deposit-taking, lending, and financial services fees delivered via branches, digital channels, and partner networks.