Principal Engineer

6 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Westpac Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Description
Create your best future and join Westpac as a Principal Engineer
UNITE is our business-led, tech-enabled transformation, and a key priority for the Group. UNITE is about delivering 'one best way' to make our processes, systems and tech simpler so we can deliver a better experience for our customers and make things easier for our people.

What's the role?
An exciting opportunity is available for Principal Engineer to join the Quality Engineering Platform – Core Data & Observability team. This role focuses on managing our Quality Engineering Platform data model, state maintenance, data relationships, integrations, and any required abstractions to ensure interoperability, automation, process codification, and unambiguous observability across our service offerings and related tooling ecosystems. It underpins consistent system behaviour, object reference clarity, service traceability, and meaningful actionable analytics supporting our regulatory and compliance outcomes.

What do I need?

  • Deep knowledge of data structures, state models, and persistence patterns in event-based architectures.
  • Design and implementation of data abstraction layers, synchronisation, mediation, integration patterns and structures.
  • Worked with monitoring tools like ELK and OpenTelemetry.
  • Familiarity with test data lifecycle and management concepts.
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining observability pipelines.
  • Experience integrating with enterprise tools and commercial systems.

Why join us?
We're obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we're looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we're committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we're already doing that:

  • Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates
  • Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
  • Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
  • Lots of opportunities to 'give back' to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today
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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 .

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