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About the Role

This senior engineering opportunity will lead the technical direction of Westpac’s Data Platforms (DP) ecosystem, enabling the company's Data Inspired journey. You will bring deep engineering judgment, enterprise influence, and a practical focus on secure, scalable, and reliable platforms, working across Technology and business partners to turn strategy into clear roadmaps, standards, and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic technical direction and end-to-end design of the Data Platforms ecosystem.
• Shape platform engineering strategy and roadmaps across Lakehouse, data warehouse, data integration, and information management capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership for complex programs transforming Westpac’s data landscape, including large-scale migrations.
• Drive platform performance, cost optimisation, reliability, security, and scalability.
• Set direction for agentic automation and the evolution towards more autonomous platform operations.
• Partner with product, architecture, infrastructure, security, service management, and business stakeholders to continuously improve the platform roadmap and user experience.
• Embed strong engineering practices, including innovation, DevSecOps, SRE, effective analysis, design, programming, and testing.
• Coach and mentor the platform engineering community, helping senior engineers grow as technical leaders.

Requirements

• Significant experience providing technical leadership across large, complex data platform environments.
• Advanced knowledge of data technologies and cloud computing, including platforms such as Microsoft Synapse, Databricks, and Teradata.
• Experience defining engineering strategy, architecture, standards, patterns, and roadmaps for enterprise-scale platforms.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps and SRE models, practices, and tooling.
• Demonstrated capability leading complex technical programs, platform transformation, and large-scale migrations.
• A strong understanding of how technology and business priorities connect, with the ability to turn stakeholder needs into practical platform outcomes.
• Highly developed communication and influencing skills, with a track record of building trusted relationships across organisational levels.
• A practical innovation mindset, including the ability to apply emerging AI and agentic architectures to complex business and engineering challenges.
• A commitment to coaching engineers, lifting capability, and creating an inclusive environment where different perspectives can contribute.

Skills

• Data Platforms
• Lakehouse platform
• Data warehouses
• Data integration
• Information management
• Microsoft Synapse
• Databricks
• Teradata
• Cloud computing
• DevSecOps
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Agentic automation
• AI architectures

Location

• Sydney
• Melbourne

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

• Westpac is focused on becoming its customers' number one banking partner for life.
• Westpac is committed to making itself one of the best places to work in Australia.
• Westpac fosters a collaborative and inclusive environment where different perspectives are valued, people feel safe to contribute ideas, and everyone has the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive.

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 welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities.
• We provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians, and neurodiverse community.
• If you need an adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, we’re here to support you.