Engineering Standards & Excellence Lead

Reporting to the Group Head of Engineering you will play a key role in establishing and scaling Westpacs Engineering Practice. You will help define the standards patterns guardrails and ways of working that make great engineering easier to adopt across one of Australias largest technology environments. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can bring credibility with engineers influence senior stakeholders and turn complex engineering expectations into practical guidance that improves delivery resilience quality productivity and customer outcomes. You will work across Delivery Units Architecture Cyber Risk Controls platform teams and external partners to create practical engineering standards and reusable approaches that help teams deliver faster safer and with greater confidence. This is a chance to influence how thousands of engineers build run and improve technology across Westpac.

Responsibilities will include:

• Define practical engineering standards patterns and guardrails that set a clear bar for quality resilience security maintainability and delivery effectiveness.
• Create reusable playbooks templates paved roads and reference approaches that reduce duplication and make it easier for teams to do the right thing.
• Partner with Engineering Architecture Cyber Risk Controls and platform teams to translate enterprise expectations into practical engineering guidance.
• Lead initiatives that improve engineering effectiveness developer experience delivery flow automation testing reliability and technical sustainability.
• Support Delivery Unit leaders to identify engineering friction and turn it into practical improvement activity.
• Help embed engineering standards and controls into tools workflows and day-to-day delivery practices.
• Use metrics such as DORA flow reliability quality defect trends automation and developer experience to identify opportunities and tell a clear improvement story.
• Build strong communities of senior engineers and practitioners who contribute to standards patterns and continuous improvement.
• Bring external insight market practice and strategic partner input into Westpacs engineering uplift.
  

Were looking for a senior engineering leader or experienced technology practitioner who can operate across strategy standards delivery improvement and hands-on adoption. You will bring strong engineering judgement practical influence and the ability to make complex topics clear and useful for teams.

Youll bring experience in:

• Engineering leadership software engineering platform engineering architecture DevOps engineering practices or technology transformation
• Defining or adopting engineering standards technical patterns guardrails lifecycle practices or reusable delivery approaches
• Improving engineering effectiveness across teams platforms or large technology environments
• Working with modern engineering practices such as CI/CD automated testing reliability engineering secure-by-design cloud developer experience and AI-assisted engineering
• Influencing senior engineering architecture product delivery risk and transformation stakeholders
• Operating in complex regulated environments where quality resilience security and risk matter
• Turning ambiguity into clear direction practical guidance and measurable outcomes