Jobs at Westpac

Designs, builds, and operates secure, scalable platform solutions using cloud technologies, IaC, automation, and CI/CD. Develops highly available platform services, drives deployment and monitoring automation, applies SRE principles, troubleshoots complex issues, and improves reliability, performance, cost efficiency, and developer experience. The role also contributes to engineering standards, mentors engineers, evaluates technologies, leads technical initiatives, and advances security, compliance, and operational resilience.

Build, maintain, automate, and support enterprise platforms and infrastructure across Windows and Linux environments. Develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling, troubleshoot production and integration issues, manage Control-M scheduling, respond to incidents, remediate vulnerabilities, and improve monitoring with Dynatrace and Splunk. The role also contributes to platform modernisation, security uplift, infrastructure automation, and collaboration with application, security, and engineering teams.

Provides technical leadership within a Service Operations Engineering squad, guiding ServiceNow platform engineering, solution design, reliability, security, lifecycle management, and technical standards. The role mentors engineers, influences senior technical stakeholders, promotes reusable engineering practices, and balances delivery with observability, recoverability, performance, maintainability, and operational resilience.

Develops scalable data solutions and trusted data assets using SAS and SQL to generate insights for product portfolio management, pricing, performance, customer journeys, and strategic decision-making. Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into analysis, reporting, and implemented data solutions within a large financial services organization.

Develop and grow a local market for Westpac’s mobile lending services across Auckland. Generate new home lending and small business opportunities, build referral networks, manage customer pipelines, and convert prospects through to settlement. Provide tailored lending solutions using strong credit knowledge, balance commercial outcomes with responsible lending, and represent Westpac at community events, seminars, and networking activities.

Leads Westpac’s Corporate and Commercial Banking business across Waikato and New Plymouth. Responsibilities include regional strategy, financial performance, credit risk oversight, complex transaction leadership, customer relationship development, team leadership, talent development, market growth, and transformation. The role requires strong commercial banking expertise, senior credit judgment, and accountability for portfolio quality, revenue, profitability, balance-sheet growth, and risk-adjusted returns.

Manage and grow a portfolio of high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients for Westpac Private Bank. Provide holistic advice across lending, banking, and wealth; build new relationships through networks and referrals; collaborate with internal specialists; and maintain strong risk, regulatory, and professional standards.

Build and support front-end and back-end digital experiences, applications, and integrations for frontline banking services. Administer SWIFT applications, implement and test product features, maintain reliable production systems, document SDLC activities, and participate in on-call and after-hours support. Apply DevOps practices, deployment automation, monitoring tools, containerization, and performance-focused application maintenance.

Manage and grow a portfolio of corporate banking clients across New Zealand. Provide lending advice, structure financial solutions, identify new business opportunities, prepare credit submissions, maintain portfolio health, and ensure compliance with risk, AML, and CCCFA requirements. Build long-term relationships with customers, brokers, accountants, and internal product specialists while representing Westpac in the market.

Creates and delivers high-quality graphic design for print, digital, social, presentations, and internal communications. Manages projects from briefing and concept through production and final delivery, while collaborating with stakeholders and maintaining organized, adaptable files. Requires strong typography, layout, production, communication, and prioritization skills, along with proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, PowerPoint, Word, and Figma. Experience with design systems, templates, animation, motion graphics, or video is advantageous.

Senior Data Engineer responsible for designing scalable data services, engineering frameworks, and AI-enabled solutions. The role combines hands-on Python, SQL, cloud data platform, testing, CI/CD, and DevSecOps work with technical leadership, mentoring, architecture, and developer enablement using GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted tools. Experience with Snowflake and modern data technologies is required, while tools such as dbt, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Terraform, and Azure are highly desirable.

Leads enterprise architecture and engineering strategy across Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure, and AI initiatives. Owns the software development lifecycle, drives secure and scalable solution design, mentors engineering teams, improves DevOps and code quality practices, and leads resolution of complex production issues. Collaborates across Agile squads and business functions while ensuring compliance, documentation, reliability, and continuous modernization.

Manage a portfolio of stressed and impaired lending exposures, developing recovery, rehabilitation, and exit strategies. Analyze financial statements, budgets, and cash-flow forecasts; prepare credit submissions and reviews; assess risk grades, security quality, and provisions; negotiate with customers and external advisors; and maintain accurate records while supporting sound risk-management outcomes.

Lead Westpac New Zealand’s Consumer Compliance function during a six-month parental leave cover. Responsibilities include managing and developing compliance professionals, advising Consumer Banking leaders, overseeing responsible lending and financial advice compliance, managing incidents and breaches, embedding conduct risk controls, monitoring regulatory change, and engaging with regulators and stakeholders.

Analyzes digital channel, customer feedback, satisfaction, and analytics data to identify improvement opportunities. Supports reporting, metric tracking, business cases, A/B testing, UX wireframes, user journey mapping, user acceptance testing, digital strategy, backlog management, risk governance, and change activities. Collaborates with digital managers, UX designers, content teams, and stakeholders to improve customer experiences and digital channel performance.

Develop, maintain, test, and enhance IBM Mainframe applications supporting card and consumer finance systems. The role covers batch and online processing, system integration, production troubleshooting, secure development, releases, documentation, code reviews, and after-hours support. The engineer will collaborate with product and technology teams to improve reliability, resilience, and maintainability across business-critical banking applications.

Manage Westpac New Zealand’s card scheme compliance obligations across acquiring and payment activities. Responsibilities include interpreting Visa, Mastercard and UnionPay requirements; maintaining obligations, waivers and remediation registers; coordinating governance, reporting, audits and attestations; assessing scheme changes; translating requirements into business, technology, operational and vendor accountabilities; overseeing third-party compliance delivery; and managing risks, breaches, controls and stakeholder relationships.

Leads Westpac New Zealand’s Open Finance domain, including strategic positioning, industry participation, regulatory obligations, standards, governance, and ecosystem relationships. Represents the bank with regulators, standards bodies, fintechs, and industry groups; translates regulatory and industry changes into business recommendations; coordinates consultation responses; and partners across product, technology, risk, legal, compliance, and operations to evolve Open Finance capabilities.

Lead Westpac’s payment systems modernisation readiness by assessing payment ecosystem evolution, emerging technologies, capability gaps, dependencies, risks, and investment opportunities. Develop recommendations and business cases, advise senior leaders and governance forums, engage strategic partners and industry bodies, identify partnership opportunities, and build organisational understanding of future payment developments through stakeholder education and thought leadership.

Leads Westpac New Zealand’s domestic payments domain, including payment rails, clearing arrangements, industry standards, participation obligations, and operating frameworks. Represents Westpac with regulators, industry bodies, and ecosystem participants; shapes strategic positions and responses to regulatory and industry change; oversees governance, risk, resilience, compliance, and continuous improvement; and partners with Product, Technology, Risk, Operations, and other teams on payment capabilities and opportunities.