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Engineering Craft & Capability Lead
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6 August 2026 (9 hours ago)
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3 November 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Description
Create your best future as an Engineering Craft & Capability Lead.
Whats the role
Reporting to the Group Head of Engineering the Engineering Craft & Capability Lead will help establish and scale the Engineering Practice by creating the conditions for engineers to grow their craft build future skills and apply new capability through hands-on engineering experiences. You will work across Engineering Practice Delivery Units senior engineering leaders external partners and our People Learning and Workforce Planning teams to make capability development practical relevant and connected to how engineers learn grow and deliver. As Catalyst continues to mature this role will help strengthen the craft foundations required for product-aligned delivery including modern software engineering secure engineering AI-assisted delivery software delivery lifecycle improvement and platform engineering.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- You will turn engineering strategy and future skills needs into practical development priorities that help engineers build capability through doing sharing and contributing.
- Define engineering craft and capability priorities that support Catalyst modern engineering practices and Westpacs broader technology strategy.
- Create practical development mechanisms such as innovation time technical spikes hackathons engineering events mentoring and peer learning.
- Develop targeted certification and skills uplift programmes with People Learning technology vendors hyper-scalers engineering partners and industry bodies.
- Use Delivery Unit insight practitioner feedback and engineering signals to identify priority capability gaps and future skills needs.
- Build and support engineering communities that help practitioners learn from each other across Delivery Units.
- Connect capability uplift to engineering outcomes such as delivery effectiveness quality resilience productivity and developer experience.
- Provide clear insight and executive-level narrative on engineering craft capability priorities adoption and impact.
What do I need
You will bring credibility with engineers confidence with senior stakeholders and a practical understanding of how capability is built in complex technology environments.
Key skills and experience will include:
- Senior experience in engineering leadership engineering capability software engineering platform engineering technology transformation developer experience or a related field.
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices and how they apply in regulated environments.
- Experience shaping capability uplift certification programmes communities of practice applied learning or practitioner development mechanisms.
- Ability to work effectively with engineers engineering leaders People Learning Workforce Planning and external partners.
- Strong appreciation of product-aligned delivery persistent teams Delivery Units and end-to-end engineering accountability.
- Experience or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering DevOps cloud secure engineering reliability platform engineering or developer experience.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to turn complex capability topics into clear choices recommendations and narratives.
Why join us
Were obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and were looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that return were committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways were already doing that:
- Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
- Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance and a variety of leave options including Culture Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
- Lots of opportunities to give back to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.
Create your future today
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Were all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone no matter your age gender background or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.
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We may close this job advertisement earlier than the advertised closing date if suitable candidates are identified. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Westpac has a long and proud history as Australia's first and oldest bank. It was established in 1817 as the Bank of New South Wales under a charter of incorporation provided by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. In October 1982 it changed its name to Westpac Banking Corporation following th ... View more
