23 hours ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and architectural governance for high-quality engineering outcomes at scale.
- Lead complex engineering design and technical decisions, review critical designs and high-risk changes, and resolve cross-team technical dependencies.
- Develop reusable engineering patterns and guardrails and support technical debt prioritisation.
- Coach Senior Engineers on secure and reliable engineering practices.
- Drive adoption of automation, testing, observability, CI/CD, and platform tooling.
- Support enterprise application modernisation, cloud-native architecture, resilience, operability, cloud governance, disaster recovery, cost optimisation, and responsible AI controls.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience across software engineering, architecture, or platform engineering.
- Strong expertise in AWS architecture, cloud-native design, migration and modernisation, microservices, serverless, Kubernetes, resilience, and cloud governance.
- Strong API and integration architecture experience, including API-first design, REST/GraphQL, event-driven systems, Kafka, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Experience designing and embedding generative AI capabilities, including RAG, agentic systems, AWS AgentCore, MCP, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and vector databases.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code and automation experience using Terraform, OpenTofu, or Bicep.
- Strong platform engineering and DevOps experience across CI/CD, GitHub Actions, automated testing, observability, and secure software delivery.
- Experience with cloud security, governance, resilience, disaster recovery, and cost optimisation, plus understanding of AI governance and responsible AI controls.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements and varied leave options, including Culture, Lifestyle, and Wellbeing leave.
- Special offers on banking products, including employee-only mortgage rates, and discounts from top brands.
- Tailored learning and development opportunities.
- Volunteering opportunities through community initiatives.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Hybrid tag.
- Inclusive workplace with recruitment-process support and adjustments available.
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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.