Create your best future and join Westpac as a Senior Data Engineer
What's the role?
An exciting prospect is available for a Senior Data Engineer to complement WIB Technology, Financial Markets. The Traded Risk Technology team is responsible for improving and delivering the Market Risk solution.
Current projects include implementing APS116 – Market Risk in the Trading Book, which involves replacing the legacy system with a new hybrid vendor and in-house solution, and upgrading the Trader Limits / Structural Risk platform to a newer vendor technology.
To manage these complex projects, the team needs stronger technical leadership and more development resources.
This will help improve solution design, meet business requirements, build domain knowledge, and ensure smooth handover of support capabilities within the team.
What do I need?
- Significant senior level experience in the IT industry (ideally 10+ years), focusing on hands-on engineering, coding, and development.
- Advanced experience using Python / PySpark.
- Highly adept with big data platforms (E.g. AWS or Azure).
- Experience with Palantir Foundry is highly desirable.
- Experience coaching and mentoring development teams, both onshore and offshore.
- Familiarity with financial markets and/or market risk in banking is desirable.
- Highly experienced working in Agile team structures and dealing with a variety of stakeholders at all levels within a complex corporate arena.
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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📌 Senior Data Engineer
🏢 Westpac Group
📍 Sydney