Lead Product Owner (Platform Migration)

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Lead Product Owner (Platform Migration).

This role will play a crucial part of the UNITE team. UNITE is our business-led tech-enabled transformation and a key priority for the Group. UNITE is about delivering one best way to make our processes systems and tech simpler so we can deliver a better experience for our customers and make things easier for our people.

• Location:Sydney-based role only
• On-site Requirement:3 days in the office per week
• Why On-siteThis is a highly collaborative position involving regular face-to-face workshops and close team interaction making in-office presence essential.

Whats the role

As a Lead Product Owner you are accountable for defining prioritising and delivering product outcomes that maximise business value while balancing customer needs risk and delivery constraints. Operating at a strategic level you own complex backlogs with crossfunctional dependencies and play a critical role in largescale transformation migration and platform modernisation initiatives. You act as the primary decision maker for product scope and priority ensuring alignment to enterprise strategy regulatory obligations and agreed delivery outcomes.

Additionally youll define and maintain a clear product vision roadmap and success measures translating business strategy transformation goals and regulatory requirements into actionable outcomes. You make informed prioritisation decisions that balance value cost of delay risk and delivery feasibility while owning a wellstructured backlog of epics features and user stories that are outcomefocused clearly articulated and ready for delivery.

You will partner across technology risk design and operations lead agile ways of working communicate transparently manage dependencies and embed risk compliance and continuous improvement outcomes

What do I need

• Extensive experience as a Senior Product Owner or Product Manager in large complex organisations preferably within banking or financial industries.
• Proven ownership of complex crossfunctional backlogs with multiple dependencies.
• Experience delivering largescale technology transformation migration or platform modernisation initiatives.
• Strong strategic mindset with the ability to translate business strategy into prioritised outcomes.
• Solid understanding of risk compliance and regulatory requirements within regulated environments.
• Strong stakeholder leadership influencing and decisionmaking capability at senior levels.
• Deep experience working in agile delivery environments (e.g. Scrum SAFe) driving outcomefocused delivery.

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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