Principal Architect People, Corporate Affairs, & Community
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Job Summary
Sydney location.
Hybrid working arrangement.
Key leadership opportunity.
Help shape a better technology future for Westpac our people and our customers.
About the role
As Principal Architect you will partner closely with People Corporate Affairs & Community(CAC) leadership teams and senior technology stakeholders providing clear architectural direction and trusted leadership. Your focus will be on ensuring technology investments are maximised aligned to Westpacs vision and enable meaningful sustainable outcomes.
The Solution Architecture function within Westpac Solutions plays a critical role in translating Enterprise Architecture strategy into practical highimpact solutions. This role ensures solution architectures align to established roadmaps while adhering to enterprise architecture principles.
Importanty this is a peopleled handson leadership role. You will lead a team responsible for developing maintaining and communicating highlevel investment plans across the IT landscapeshaping an architecture strategy that enables transformation modernisation and innovation at scale.
What you will be doing day to day
Build and manage strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the People and Corporate Affairs & Community domains and the broader technology community acting as a trusted advisor and strategic technology partner
Provide thought leadership by identifying emerging technologies (including AI) and industry trends influencing decisionmaking and embedding insights into domain roadmaps
Develop maintain and clearly communicate People & CAC domain execution roadmaps aligned to Westpacs technology strategy
Drive simplification modernisation and technical debt reduction across systems within the People and Corporate Affairs & Community domains
Guide solution architects and engineering teams through architecture standards principles and reference designs with clarity and pragmatism
Influence technology investment prioritisation and sequencing through welldefined and actionable domain roadmaps
Uplift team capability to deliver AI priorities across both domains
Build sustainable capability within your team to deliver and scale AI initiatives
Provide people leadership for solution architects including performance reviews development planning coaching and career growth
Accountabilities include:
Developing maintaining and communicating People & CAC domain execution roadmaps consistent with technology strategy
Providing technology architecture governance for People & CAC solutions ensuring alignment to architecture standards principles and reference designs
Delivering technology leadership and advice to uplift technology change including the effective use of AI
Leading and managing the discovery evaluation and selection of technology solutions
Developing solution architectures artefacts patterns and designs aligned to strategy and roadmaps while meeting security compliance and risk requirements
Supporting business requests to inform technology investments and roadmap reviews including Architecture Impact Assessments and preproject budgetary guidance outside the Project Lifecycle
Leading coaching and managing solution architects across the People & CAC domains with a strong focus on growth capability and performance
Uplifting team capability to deliver AI priorities across both domains
Ensuring domainlevel execution roadmaps are actively used by business and technology leaders to guide short and midterm decisions
Delivering technology solutions aligned to Westpacs progressive modernisation strategy driving transformation across the Group
Ensuring the right people with the right skills are available at the right time to support strategic and operational priorities
Providing architecture assurance design reviews and executivelevel insights to support informed decisionmaking
Leading experimentation and exploration of AI initiatives
Essential requirements
Significant senior solution architecture expertise with demonstrated leadership experience gained within a large complex organisation
Strong experience working with established architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent)
Advanced stakeholder management and influencing capability underpinned by strategic thinking and systemslevel problem solving
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences
A pragmatic outcomesfocused approach to decisionmaking balancing risk cost and value through collaboration
Senior engineering and solution architecture experience across corporate applications and AI
Why join us
We are committed to becoming our customers preferred banking partner and are looking for people who are motivated to help us achieve that return we are focused on making Westpac a great place to work. Benefits include:
Exclusive offers on banking products and discounts from leading brands including employee mortgage rates
Flexible work arrangements to support work/life balance plus a variety of leave options including Culture Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave
Tailored learning and development opportunities to help you grow your career within the bank
Opportunities to support the community through volunteering initiatives
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We are committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace. We welcome applicants of all ages genders backgrounds and abilities and provide additional support for veterans Indigenous Australians and the neurodiverse community.
If you require adjustments during the recruitment process you can find further information and contact details by visiting the People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements page on our website.
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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
