About the Role
Play a key role in delivering commodities product capability across Westpac Institutional Bank's market risk technology landscape. Enhance platforms that measure, monitor, and report market risk within a complex institutional banking environment. Solve complex business and technology challenges, support strategic initiatives, drive continuous improvement, and provide technical leadership.
Responsibilities
- Deliver commodities product capability across Westpac Institutional Bank's market risk technology landscape.
- Enhance platforms that measure, monitor, and report market risk.
- Partner closely with Front Office, Market Risk Management, Operations, and Technology teams to deliver scalable, well-controlled solutions.
- Lead technical analysis, product configuration, and solution delivery.
- Ensure commodities risk is accurately captured, measured, and monitored through sensitivities, VaR, stress testing, and limits frameworks.
- Solve complex business and technology challenges.
- Support strategic initiatives.
- Drive continuous improvement.
- Provide technical leadership across the market risk platform estate.
- Leverage automation and AI-assisted analysis to improve efficiency, reduce operational risk, and support delivery outcomes.
Requirements
- Strong experience within market risk technology, traded risk technology, or financial markets technology in a regulated banking environment.
- Experience working with trading or risk platforms such as Murex, Calypso, FIS AA, Meerkat, or similar systems.
- Understanding of market risk concepts including VaR, sensitivities, stress testing, limits management, market data, and regulatory requirements.
- Proven ability to analyze complex technology landscapes, perform impact assessments, and solve end-to-end business and technical challenges.
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders across business, risk, and technology functions.
Skills
- SQL
- Scripting
- Automation
- AI-assisted analysis
- CI/CD
- Jira
- Confluence
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Special offers on banking products.
- Discounts from top brands.
- Generous employee-only mortgage rates.
- Flexible work arrangements.
- Variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
- Tailored learning and development opportunities.
- Opportunities to give back to the Community through volunteering initiatives.
About the Company
- Obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life.
- Committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re 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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