Principal Engineer Customer Solutions & Group Ops (CGSO)

Principal Engineer CSGO (Data Platforms)

• Location: Sydney or Melbourne Based
• Hybrid Working

Make your mark today!

Were seeking a Principal Engineer to act as the seniormost technical authority across Customer Solutions & Group Operations (CSGO) with our Data Platforms (DP) area within Westpac.

Youll own endtoend technical design and quality across enterprise batch and streaming data platforms set engineering standards mentor senior technologists and act as the escalation point for complex crossdomain data challenges in a regulated environment.

Please note that this is a handson senior individual contributor role i.e. not a people manager or delivery manager position however your highly developed stakeholder management and people influencing ability will be key to the roles success - complemented with your deep technical engineering skills and expertise.

Core responsibilities

• Own and govern endtoend data solutions across batch and realtime streaming pipelines
• Define and assure architecture aligned to enterprise standards security risk and regulatory controls
• Design scalable solutions using Azure data platforms (ADLS Synapse Spark/SQL Event Hubs Cosmos DB)
• Lead eventdriven and realtime architectures (Kafka Event Hubs APIs; lambda/kappa patterns)
• Set and enforce standards across design data modelling code quality CI/CD and DevSecOps
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex data integrity reconciliation and performance issues
• Mentor senior engineers and uplift capability through design reviews and reusable patterns
• Apply Agentic AI and engineering copilots safely to accelerate delivery in regulated environments

Essential Ingredients for Success

• 10 years experience in data engineering solution engineering or data architecture within large complex environments
• Proven delivery of enterprisescale data and reporting platforms (regulated or financial services environments preferred)
• Strong handson expertise in streaming and realtime data architectures Azure data ecosystems SQL data modelling and performance optimisation enterprise data platforms (e.g. Teradata / Snowflake) and ETL / ELT tooling (e.g. Informatica)
• Strong architectural judgement balancing batch streaming for analytics and reporting

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 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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