Chief Engineer - Corporate Services

How will I help

The Chief Engineer plays an important role to develop manage and provide technical expertise for an engineering domain in line with Westpacs IT principles to ensure that the Westpac Groups business objectives are met. Supports Property (inc. Physical Security) Procurement Resilience Corporate Affairs and Community (PPR & CAC) business units.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Provide organisational leadership and guidelines to promote the development and exploitation of specialist knowledge in the organisation.
• Maintain an indepth knowledge of specific specialisations providing expert advice regarding the domain. Can supervise and provide consulting activities and make recommendations and advise team members based on industry best practices and personal experience.
• Execute specialised tasks and set the organisations policy for the design development and testing of technical capabilities aligned to the technical specialisation ensuring the business requirements are met and industry best practices are adopted.
• Set strategies for effective use of the technical specialisation taking into account the complex interrelations between hardware/software.
• Business Unit level expert in a particular area or goto person for solving problems in their domain expertise for all Technology.
• Set teambased standards for tools techniques and methods including security guidelines alignment to enterprise architecture adoption of platforms and systems and ensure that they are applied effectively.
• Influence industrybased models for the development of new technology applications.
• Evaluate risks to the integrity of solutions including availability performance servicing and compliance of the business and technology services impacted.
• Recommend and set CI/CD and DevOps practices and standards across the team that are endorsed by Group Technology and ensure maximum leverage of existing platform services.

Whats in it for me

Youll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to createbetter futures together. So well back you in the development of your career internal career prospects and flexible working. Youll also keep learning to grow your career backed by a fantastic team of people with a cando supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions surrogacy and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

What do I need

• Extensive experience with software development and applications design understanding industry best practices.
• Extensive experience in a largescale technology environments across a wide variety of platforms.
• Proven results in senior level functions within the IT Industry.
• Excellent ability to quickly understand the functions and capabilities of new technology.
• A solid understanding of delivering technology in a financial services environment.
• Leads Agile Values and in Lines of Business ceremonies leading the Technology solution.
• Experience with Agile toolsets: JIRA Confluence and DevOps tools.

Desirable:

• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology or a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Previous property procurement and resilience experience.
• Multiple vendor certifications.
• People leadership experience.
• Extensive financial services industry experience is desirable.

Whats it like to work there

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers our communities and each other. At Westpac making a difference means creating impact unlocking our own and each others passions and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range ofemployee benefitsto help you manage your priorities whether that means family life work/life balance ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

Well empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling mentoring and training opportunities youre in control of where you start and how youll grow.

As an equal opportunity employer we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility and champions inclusion.

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At Westpac were all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces branches products and services are accessible and inclusive for everyoneour customers employees and the wider community. If youre interested in discussing workplace flexibility please feel free to mention it in your application.

We invite candidates of all ages genders sexual orientation cultural backgroundspeople with disability neurodiverse individuals veterans and reservists and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment processplease email.

Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process

We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage please email

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