About the Role
Join our Process & Intelligent Automation Services team as a hands-on AI Engineer. You will play a critical role in designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-grade AI and intelligent automation solutions that drive meaningful impact across the bank. You will own the end-to-end delivery and support of Agentic AI solutions, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance while collaborating with business stakeholders, engineers, and data scientists.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and support Agentic AI solutions on AWS.
- Develop intelligent automation capabilities leveraging AI, orchestration, robotics, and intelligent document processing technologies.
- Partner closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to operationalize models, optimize prompts, and support production AI workloads.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex production issues across APIs, automation workflows, integrations, and data pipelines.
- Drive improvements in system reliability, observability, performance, governance, and support frameworks.
- Champion engineering excellence through CI/CD, automated testing, secure-by-design principles, and modern software engineering practices.
- Coach and mentor engineers while helping uplift AI and cloud engineering capability across the team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience delivering solutions within large, complex enterprise environments, ideally in financial services.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and delivering AWS-based solutions in production environments.
- Strong hands-on expertise across AWS services, cloud architecture, and engineering best practices.
- Experience developing Agentic AI and LLM-powered solutions using Amazon Bedrock and frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, Strands, A2A, or comparable platforms.
- Experience deploying, monitoring, and optimizing AI solutions for accuracy, performance, cost, latency, and reliability.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability across distributed systems, APIs, data quality, and integrations.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and translate business needs into engineering outcomes.
- AWS certifications and relevant cloud engineering qualifications are highly regarded.
Skills
- AWS AI SME
- Agentic AI
- AWS
- Cloud architecture
- Engineering best practices
- LLM-powered solutions
- Amazon Bedrock
- LangChain
- AutoGen
- Strands
- A2A
- CI/CD
- Automated testing
- Secure-by-design principles
- Modern software engineering practices
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid Working Model
Experience Level
- 5+ years' experience delivering solutions within large, complex enterprise environments
- 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building and delivering AWS-based solutions in production environments
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 by getting involved in volunteering initiatives
About the Company
- At Westpac, we're engineering AI into the fabric of one of Australia's largest and most trusted financial institutions.
- We're creating better futures for our customers, communities and people.
- We're obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ communities and candidates of all ages and life experiences.
- 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.
- If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find out more information and additional contact details by visiting the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website.
