Program manager (sydney)

All roles at Westpac Group can be considered for flexible working arrangements, such as flexible hours, working remotely, part time work, or job sharing.

Permanent Role

Sydney

How will I help?

The Technology Transformation team is responsible for delivering a range of data and analytics projects, ranging from the delivery of new capabilities for Group Data and our business partners, to the delivery of compliance programs.

You will be integral to helping Group Data achieve its vision by playing a key role in the delivery of analytics and business intelligence programs for Westpac.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Program Leadership: Lead the end-to-end delivery of Program Workstream, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines.
• Strategic Planning: Develop and maintain the program workstream roadmap, defining milestones and success metrics to ensure seamless program execution.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage with executive sponsors, business stakeholders, and technical teams to gather requirements, communicate progress, and manage expectations.
• Team Coordination and Leadership: Manage cross‐functional teams, including data engineers, data architects, analysts, and third‐party vendors, to ensure collaboration and timely delivery.
• Budget & Resource Management: Oversee the program budget, resources, and staffing needs, ensuring financial goals and resourcing requirements are met.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks, dependencies, and issues that could impact the program, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Change Management: Collaborate with the change team to develop robust change management practices to ensure organisational adoption of new and changed data / business processes and systems.
• Reporting: Provide regular program status updates to senior leadership, highlighting key achievements, risks, and opportunities.
• Data Governance: Work with the data governance team to ensure that data transformation adheres to data privacy, security, and compliance requirements.
• Support, coach, and mentor the team where required. Act as the ambassador for our business stakeholders to understand the business objectives and lead with the business outcome at the core of the change.

What's in it for me?

• Play a significant part in the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years.
• Back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working.
• Learn to grow your career backed by a fantastic team of people with a can‐do, supportive structure.
• Generous paid and unpaid parental leave for nominated primary and support carers, including leave for adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements.
• Continued super contributions while taking all the time you need to settle a new family.

What do I need?

Essential:

• Demonstrated experience managing large‐scale data transformation or IT programs, ideally within a complex organisational structure.
• Understanding of data architectures, cloud platforms, data migration, data lakes, and data warehousing.
• Solid background in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies, with PMP or PRINCE2 certification preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading and motivating cross‐functional teams in a fast‐paced environment.
• Familiarity with data integration tools, ETL processes, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), and data governance frameworks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, translating technical concepts to non‐technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills and proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
• Experience managing organisational change in relation to new data processes or systems.

Desirable:

• Experience within the financial industry.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.
• Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau) and data governance platforms.

What's it like to work there?

We're a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, communities, and each other. At Westpac, creating impact, unlocking our own and each other's passions, and transformative success stories help us 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.