Chief Engineer

• Permanent role
• Gold Coast location

How will I help?

As Westpac’s Chief Engineer (Chief Operating Office (COO) Technology), you will be responsible for driving the technology strategy and development of technology solutions to support the risk, regulatory and remediation programs.

Working across multiple Lines of Business, you will lead a talented team of Engineers and Solution Designers to efficiently and effectively delivery on Consumer divisional risk and regulatory priorities. Including, building a strong engineering delivery team that is at the forefront of industry evolution in RegTech.

This role is preferably based in Gold Coast but is open to interstate candidates as well.

You will also be responsible for:

• Set up and lead the COO Tech engineering capability
• Drive strong engineering and solution design practices leveraging the best of Consumer and Westpac capabilities
• Drive technology choices in collaboration with divisional and enterprise Architecture, the Consumer Technology and the Lines of Businesses (LOBs)
• Maintain close collaboration with Technology Domain Owners teams to ensure common components delivered by the COO Tech can be scaled and reused in an efficient manner
• Providing clear direction and advice on divisional solution design and best practices, standards and guidelines to enable build of solutions across the COO Portfolio
• Assessing and understanding the evolving risk and regulatory requirements of Consumer division to ensure solutions and outcomes are optimal – be an advocate for COO Tech teams across Consumer and broader enterprise

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?

• You will be a self-starter, able to work self sufficiently
• Strong engineering leadership experience in leveraging agile and devops principals, preferably in a finance or risk and reg domain
• Advanced knowledge of presentation, integration and enabling technologies in the risk and reg space, across a range of patterns, libraries, languages and technologies 
• Track record of engaging, managing and influencing diverse stakeholders and priorities
• Ability to pragmatically balance timeline pressures with strategic and architectural objectives 
• Proven communication and presentation skills in a technology domain delivered to an executive level audience
• Ability to play a mentoring relationship for the wider team
• Power to exercise governance and best practise
• Desire to be constantly challenged and develop new knowledge

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.

Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us.

How do I apply?

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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 talentacquisition@westpac.com.au.

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 talentacquisition@westpac.com.au