Principal Infrastructure Specialist

Permanent role
- Kogarah, Sydney basedCareer growth and development

**How will I help?**

The Principal Infrastructure Specialist within the Mainframe Infrastructure Services team is required to lead and support Westpac's complex mainframe environment within their technical expertise.

The role plays an important role in the development and maintenance of technical solutions within the Mainframe and ensures that the detailed design and operations are fit for purpose.

**Main role and responsibilities are**:

- Collaborate with the design team to create necessary design artefacts, including documentation of the existing environment when needed.
- Act as the mainframe representative in forums requiring a designer or consultant.
- Oversee the end-to-end design of the mainframe infrastructure, working with both internal and external teams to ensure the production of high-quality, comprehensive documentation.
- Translate functional and non-functional requirements into a technical infrastructure solution.
- Ensure adherence to Standards, Policies, and Guidelines.
- Document and share artefacts as required.
- Engaging in large-scale programs where environments are constantly evolving through merging, decommissioning, and the development of new environments.

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

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?**
- Relevant IT industry experience working with Mainframes
- Experience in a complex IT infrastructure environment incorporating planning, implementation, configuration, and maintenance.
- A Strong mainframe infrastructure understanding is desirable. This includes knowledge of areas such as IMS TM, CICS, MQ, and other mainframe infrastructures.
- The ability to navigate around the mainframe platform.
- A good understanding of mainframe capacity is desirable.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

**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.

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