Jobs at Reserve Bank of Australia

Lead delivery of a major Sydney CBD redevelopment across planning, design, approvals, procurement, construction and project completion. Provide strategic development management, manage consultant and contractor performance, oversee budgets, risk and commercial outcomes, ensure governance, heritage and sustainability compliance, and prepare executive reports and decision papers for senior leadership.

Lead implementation of ISO 45001-aligned WHS Management System improvements, standardise policies and procedures, establish governance, assurance and audit processes, manage corrective actions, engage stakeholders, and report progress for Comcare Self-Insurance readiness.

Provide commercial legal advice on payments, financial markets, banking, payment systems infrastructure, and related regulatory matters. Draft legal documents, assess legal risks, advise senior leaders, and manage competing priorities within a collaborative legal team.

Lead and manage delivery of national payments system operations, ensuring high availability, incident management, resilience testing, compliance, stakeholder engagement, and people leadership across a 24/7 team.

Deliver and improve enterprise monitoring, automation, scheduling and scripting to ensure operational readiness. Provide 2nd level support, configure monitoring and scheduler tools, create PowerShell scripts and APIs, maintain system documentation, and support incident and problem resolution with continuous improvement.

Lead design, implementation and continuous improvement of non-financial enterprise risk and compliance frameworks. Partner with business areas to uplift controls, draft policies, prepare senior-level insights, and drive adoption and consistency across the Bank.

Lead integration, configuration, support and upgrades of SWIFT vendor products and messaging infrastructure. Collaborate with payment platform teams (NPP/FSS), troubleshoot messaging issues, ensure high availability, and implement risk mitigation. Provide technical and functional support across SWIFT systems and advise on SWIFT and payments technology.

Provide economic analysis to inform monetary policy, conduct liaison with WA businesses, produce analytical outputs, attend external meetings and events, and contribute to Economic Group initiatives. This is a 9-month parental leave cover position based in Perth with occasional travel across WA and to Sydney.

Provide specialist employee relations advice on investigations, grievances, performance and disciplinary matters; influence leaders for fair, compliant commercial outcomes; develop policies, coach colleagues, and collaborate with People specialists. Handle external employment claims and support industrial relations and Fair Work Commission proceedings.

Paid eight-week full-time summer internship at the Reserve Bank of Australia for penultimate-year economics/econometrics students. Interns undertake supervised research projects, produce a research paper, present findings, attend training, network with staff, and may be considered for a graduate program.

Manage and drive supplier performance for multiple managed service providers supporting a major infrastructure transformation. Oversee contractual compliance, SLAs/KPIs, variation resolution, procurement support, stakeholder liaison, governance, risk mitigation, and collaborative vendor relationships to enable timely, cost-effective delivery.

Manage design, build, test, deployment, and lifecycle support of enterprise integration services (B2B/file transfer, SWIFT, APIs). Deliver project and BAU changes, ensure high availability, security controls, incident response (3rd line), CI/CD, migrations, patching, asset management, and maintain integration centre of excellence through documentation, governance and stakeholder collaboration.

Administer and maintain the enterprise ServiceNow platform: monitor health and performance, manage users/roles/security, configure workflows/business rules/forms/UI policies, resolve incidents and defects, support upgrades/patches/releases, ensure compliance and platform stability, and collaborate with analysts, developers and vendors to drive continuous improvement.

Lead development and scaling of enterprise continuous improvement capability, design frameworks, run structured analysis and workshops, and deliver enterprise-wide improvement initiatives. Engage senior stakeholders, support strategic planning, build a community of practice, and ensure initiatives deliver measurable outcomes aligned to enterprise priorities.

Lead a team delivering IT control testing and automated assurance; coordinate testing activities, partner with Line 2 and IT risk teams, manage external providers, support governance and reporting, and strengthen organisation-wide IT risk and compliance.

Lead a team of IT Risk Advisors to manage and improve the IT risk profile, embed Risk and Compliance Framework practices, partner with IT leaders and Line 2 to strengthen governance, facilitate risk forums and reporting, and drive a strong risk culture across the technology function.

Lead design, implementation and optimisation of on-premises infrastructure, IaC (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines and automation. Provide DevOps tooling leadership, ensure governance and security alignment, collaborate with Agile teams, document standards, and mentor colleagues during transition to new infrastructure platforms.

Design, implement and enhance financial market risk frameworks for the Reserve Bank of Australia. Provide technical analysis on market operations, risk management and policy implementation, engage senior stakeholders and governance forums, and support central bank operations including stress and extraordinary policy measures.

Lead functional testing for critical national payments and settlements systems. Plan and execute risk-based test cases, run manual end-to-end and regression tests, report and triage defects, maintain test artefacts, coordinate test activities, and produce handover documentation for operations.

Manage and maintain the Azure platform health and performance, respond to incidents, support project readiness, implement FinOps, design CI/CD and IaC deployments, ensure security/governance, provide on-call/shift and after-hours support, and participate in business continuity testing.