Technical Lead

Technical Lead (Calypso Trading System)

Westpac Group has a rich heritage and offers employees a multitude of opportunities. We aim to attract the best people inside and outside of the business - building an organisation where the best talent thrives.

The Westpac Group has been proudly advancing Australia for two centuries. Our success is built upon both our heritage and our ability to evolve. Our vision is to be one of the world's great service companies, helping our customers, communities, and people to prosper and grow. We're setting ourselves up to be Australia's No. 1 Bank and we have an exciting change agenda ahead.

**How will I help?**

This Technical Lead role is about delivering support for the Business Unit and ability to contribute to the strong global investment in technology - including regulatory change and electronic distribution platforms.

**Key role responsibilities include**:

- Manage components or assist in the resolution of escalated system issues to ensure issues are resolved in accordance with business needs, timeframes, and SLAs.
- Work as SME within the technology teams to support changes to meet the demands of the evolving marketplace.

**Customer**
- Undertake delivery of support tasks to agreed scope, time, cost and quality.
- Engage with strategic business partners to establish a clearly aligned, customer centric business vision.
- Work with the broader Financial Markets Technology Team to deliver against the broader IT Strategy.
- Ensure the provision of all IT services to the business is continually moving towards best practice with respect to cost, quality, and service.
- Build key business and technology engagement and relationships through delivery and quality of communication.
- Understand and drive solutions & deliverables - front to back - for the Business Units being supported.
- Work in a collaborative environment with the business stakeholders of Financial Markets to provide input into such areas as: operational technology stability, and impact/status/remedial plans of any production outages; operational technology requirements to support planned business growth/new products/functionality etc.
- In addition to the above specific responsibilities, any other tasks as directed from time-to-time.

**People**
- Being flexible and able to work in robust and diverse team environment.
- Understanding the changing dynamics of the business units and being able to adapt & cater to the speed of that change.
- Ability to be challenged and work within small robust teams on variety of tasks and business drivers.

**What's in it for you?**

You will build your profile internally with senior stakeholders and be part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. You'll be working for an organisation that supports development, internal career moves and flexible working. Along with competitive salary, you'll receive Westpac's generous benefits and a whole array of customer discounts.

**What do I need?**

To be successful in this Technical Lead, you will have the following skills:

- A minimum 3yrs experience of Calypso trading system end to end -V17 experience is preferable.

**Strong Business and Financial Markets Knowledge**:

- Business domain knowledge of variety of Financial Markets Products (FX, Fixed Income, Rates and Credit Derivatives)
- Understanding of various external execution platforms including (Calypso).
- Proficient competence of business processes from front to back, inclusive of trade capture, back office/operations, finance, middle office, risk management, credit & settlement functions.
- Strong understanding of pricing and modules used for valuation & broad understanding of financial markets conditions.

**Technical Skills**:

- Extensive hands-on experience with the Calypso GUI, back-end infrastructure, Calypso engines and services, Calypso workflows, and batch structure are preferred.
- Exposure to Trading, Confirmations, Payments, Risk Management Systems, and Emerging Technologies.
- Experience in Linux operating system
- Knowledge of programming languages applied to financial markets products and databases (preferably Oracle & Java) - Advantageous
- Experience with managing system changes, functional testing, implementations
- Identification of new Technologies in the marketplace.
- Familiarity with the functions and structures of: XSL, XML, FIX, MXML
- Advanced analysis, problem solving, troubleshooting and consultative skills

**People Skills**:

- Sound negotiation and influencing skills especially when dealing with business and technology units and vendors.
- Delivery and quality focused.
- Diligent and proactive in finding solutions.
- Ability to prioritise and adopt a structured approach but exhibit the flexibility where necessary.
- Experienced in facilitating work across teams (eg Front Office, Operations, Compliance, Finance, Risk);
- things through and gets things done
- Effective and articulate communicator
- Experience in altern