Chief Engineer - Corporate Services
Westpac Group
Date: 17 hours ago
City: Sydney, New South Wales
Contract type: Full time
Job Description
How will I help?
The Chief Engineer plays an important role to develop, manage and provide technical expertise for an engineering domain in line with Westpac’s IT principles to ensure that the Westpac Group’s business objectives are met. Supports Property (inc. Physical Security), Procurement, Resilience, Corporate Affairs and Community (PPR & CAC) business units.
Your key responsibilities include:
You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.
What do I need?
Essential:
We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.
We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.
Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us. .
How do I apply?
Start here. Just click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button.
At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.
We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email [email protected] .
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please email [email protected]
How will I help?
The Chief Engineer plays an important role to develop, manage and provide technical expertise for an engineering domain in line with Westpac’s IT principles to ensure that the Westpac Group’s business objectives are met. Supports Property (inc. Physical Security), Procurement, Resilience, Corporate Affairs and Community (PPR & CAC) business units.
Your key responsibilities include:
- Provide organisational leadership and guidelines to promote the development and exploitation of specialist knowledge in the organisation.
- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific specialisations, providing expert advice regarding the domain. Can supervise and provide consulting activities and make recommendations and advise team members based on industry best practices and personal experience.
- Execute specialised tasks and set the organisation’s policy for the design, development and testing of technical capabilities aligned to the technical specialisation, ensuring the business requirements are met and industry best practices are adopted.
- Set strategies for effective use of the technical specialisation taking into account the complex interrelations between hardware/software.
- Business Unit level expert in a particular area or go-to person for solving problems in their domain expertise for all Technology.
- Set team-based standards for tools, techniques and methods, including security guidelines, alignment to enterprise architecture, adoption of platforms and systems and ensure that they are applied effectively.
- Influence industry-based models for the development of new technology applications.
- Evaluate risks to the integrity of solutions including availability, performance, servicing and compliance of the business and technology services impacted.
- Recommend and set CI/CD and DevOps practices and standards across the team that are endorsed by Group Technology and ensure maximum leverage of existing platform services.
You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.
What do I need?
Essential:
- Extensive experience with software development and applications design, understanding industry best practices.
- Extensive experience in a large-scale technology environments across a wide variety of platforms.
- Proven results in senior level functions within the IT Industry.
- Excellent ability to quickly understand the functions and capabilities of new technology.
- A solid understanding of delivering technology in a financial services environment.
- Leads Agile Values and Principles. Participating in Lines of Business ceremonies, leading the Technology solution.
- Experience with Agile toolsets: JIRA, Confluence and DevOps tools.
- Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology or a related discipline or equivalent experience.
- Previous property, procurement and resilience experience.
- Multiple vendor certifications.
- People leadership experience.
- Extensive financial services industry experience is desirable.
We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.
We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.
Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us. .
How do I apply?
Start here. Just click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button.
At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.
We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email [email protected] .
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please email [email protected]
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