Chief Engineer

Are you an experienced Chief Engineer looking to return to the Tech industry after a career break?Westpac understands that re-entering the workforce can be challenging, especially in the fast-paced world of technology.That's why we're offering the Empower Up Tech Returnship program to help you get your career back on track.
Whether you've taken time off for parenting, travel, caregiving, or personal health, our program is designed to support your transition back into the tech field.What We Offer:24-week structured program: Gain hands-on experience in your tech role with dedicated support.Collaborative learning environment: Work alongside a cohort of peers with similar life experiences, enhancing your support network and boosting your confidence.Tailored training for leaders: Our people leaders are trained to understand your needs, especially when it comes to flexibility and work-life balance.Join us at Westpac and take the next step in your tech career with the Empower Up Tech Returnship.
Let's Em POWERUP togetherHow 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 Dev Ops practices and standards across the team that are endorsed by Group Technology and ensure maximum leverage of existing platform services.What do I need?Extensive experience with software development and applications design, understanding industry best practices.Extensive experience in 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 a financial services operating environment, applications and products.Leads Agile Values and Principles.
Participating in Lines of Business ceremonies, leading the Technology solution.Experience with Agile toolsets: JIRA, Confluence and Dev Ops tools.Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology or a related discipline or equivalent experience.People leadership experience.Extensive financial services industry experience is desirable.What's it like to work there?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.Start here.
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