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Job Description
Join Westpac as a Principal Engineer and help lead a multi-billion dollar digital transformation!
Job Description
Join Westpac as a Principal Engineer and help lead a multi-billion dollar digital transformation!
What’s the role?
In this hands-on technical leadership role within the Customer Engagement domain, you’ll work as part of a Digital Delivery Train focused on transforming staff sales and servicing technology across the organisation. You’ll collaborate with squads, architects, and business teams to build digital engineering capability while delivering business-critical solutions.
You’ll work with modern technologies including Java, React, Node.js, Spring Boot, Kafka, and more—within an agile environment. This is a great opportunity to join an innovative and growing engineering team, driving impactful projects that shape the future of banking.
Main role and responsibilities are:
* Drive technical innovation by researching and implementing new technologies, tools, and methodologies.
* Align technical strategies with business objectives and contribute to the long-term technology roadmap of the team.
* Advocate for and implement DevOps, or other methodologies to improve development processes and productivity.
* Continuously evaluate and improve software development workflows and tools to enhance efficiency.
* Promote best practices, conduct training sessions, and share expertise to elevate the team’s overall capability.
* Oversee the development and implementation of testing strategies, including unit tests, integration tests, and performance tests.
* Provide expert advice on technical issues, solutions, and best practices to development teams.
* Assist with assessing engineering recruitment out of our Gold Coast Hub.
* Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their technical and professional growth.
* Ensure that important technical knowledge is captured and accessible to the team.
What do I need?
You will be experienced and have a deep understanding of Java Spring boot, React, JavaScript and SQL DB development as primary skill and overall awareness of current tools and technologies.You will be a problem solver and someone that is continually looking to upskill and develop.
To be considered for this role you need the following skills/experience:
* Proven hands-on experience with a track record of leading complex projects.
* Deep knowledge of Java, React, JavaScript and related frameworks and tools.
* Strong leadership and mentorship skills, with the ability to guide and inspire multiple teams.
* Strong understanding of Micro services-based architecture
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate the cross-function teams and stakeholders.
* Collaborative team player
* Strong time management, workload management and organisational skills
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
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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 .
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Director
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries
Banking, Financial Services, and Investment Banking
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