Westpac

Senior Engineer - AI

Westpac
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23 hours ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Translate Chief Engineer direction into practical engineering practices across the Release Train.
  • Design and deploy agentic SDLC solutions and agents using approved platforms.
  • Develop and integrate production-grade LLM-based and generative AI applications.
  • Contribute hands-on to software design and development across multiple initiatives.
  • Embed standards for quality, testing, observability, resilience, and production readiness.
  • Drive automation-first engineering and full-lifecycle ownership across build, test, release, and run.
  • Coach engineers, promote reusable platform patterns, and manage technical debt and risks.
  • Partner with business owners, citizen developers, architects, risk stakeholders, and security stakeholders to uplift engineering practices.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software development experience.
  • Tertiary qualifications in computer science or a related discipline.
  • Expertise translating emerging AI technologies into practical, production-grade solutions.
  • Production experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, and modern generative AI patterns.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based applications, including chatbots and NLP pipelines.
  • Experience with LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, MCP, and A2A.
  • Understanding of PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, CockroachDB, vector databases, and embeddings.
  • API development experience using REST/JSON, SOAP/XML, and web services.
  • Strong coding ability in at least two of TypeScript/JavaScript, React/Next.js, Python, Java, and C#/.NET, plus SQL, data modelling, and PowerShell scripting.
  • Strong DevOps and DevSecOps experience, including automated testing, secret management, release governance, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Experience as an Azure or AWS Cloud Developer.
  • Knowledge of serverless, microservice, and event-based concepts and architecture.
  • Ability to re-engineer business-built prototypes into secure, testable, production-ready services.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical, business, risk, and security stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including employee-only mortgage rates.
  • Flexible work arrangements and multiple leave options, including Culture, Lifestyle, and Wellbeing leave.
  • Tailored learning and development opportunities.
  • Volunteering opportunities through community initiatives.
  • Supportive and inclusive workplace with recruitment adjustments available for candidates who need them.
  • Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Hybrid tag.
Westpac

About Westpac

10,000+ employees

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.

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