About us
At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to Help New Zealanders Succeed. As a Bank and one of New Zealand's leading employers, we are passionate about helping people. We are taking action today to create a better future for the people who bank with us, work with us, invest in us or are part of our broader communities.
Mō te tūranga | About the Role
Provides hands on technical leadership across up to two squads, ensuring high quality delivery, modern engineering practices, and strong collaboration that drives customer focused and strategic outcomes. The role balances deep technical expertise with guiding, enabling, and uplifting the team while continually improving ways of working and engineering excellence across Digital.
As a Technical Lead in the Digital team, you will play a pivotal role to collaborate with Engineers, Designers, Architects, Craft Specialists, Principal Engineers, and key stakeholders across the bank to ensure we:
• Deliver outstanding digital experiences for our customers
• Provide strategic technical leadership across your technology area, shaping long-term engineering direction and ensuring decisions support both the business strategy and target architecture
• Build solutions aligned with best industry practice
• Influence and ensure engineering decisions are aligned with business goals to support the technical roadmap
• Identify and advocate for opportunities to drive business value through technology, identifying and leading organisation wide improvements
• Shape, champion and comply with internal standards and policies
• Minimise and manage technical debt
• Support and role model agreed squad work practices while fostering a positive team culture, improving team health and reduction of cognitive load
• Create a development community shaping shared behaviours and engineering culture
• Shape sprint goals that align with delivery, customer, and strategic outcomes
• Be viewed as a subject matter expert
• Accountability for operational readiness
This role balances hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities driving a development community beyond squad level. You’ll spend approximately 50% of your time contributing directly to squad work, and 50% enabling, mentoring, and guiding your team to continuously improve. The exact balance may vary based on squad needs and leadership direction.
Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?
• Proficient in modern software development practices and tools, specialising in one or more of Front End development, preferred mobile development experience
• Strong understanding of software architecture and design principles
• Experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines
• Skilled in unit testing, code reviews, and debugging
• Ability to break down complex problems and deliver practical solutions
• Able to speak about experience within the IT Industry,
• Able to speak about experience leading small teams (not necessarily as a line manager)
• Experience in Agile Teams, who have had Development and Operations responsibilities
• Banking experience highly desired
Skills Required
- Proficient in modern software development practices and tools
- Specialising in Front End development
- Mobile development experience
- Strong understanding of software architecture and design principles
- Experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines
- Skilled in unit testing, code reviews, and debugging
- Ability to break down complex problems and deliver practical solutions
- Experience leading small teams (not necessarily line manager)
- Experience in Agile teams with Development and Operations responsibilities
- Banking experience
- Able to speak about experience within the IT industry
Westpac Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Westpac and has not been reviewed or approved by Westpac.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Extensive paid and unpaid leave options span wellbeing leave, Culture/Lifestyle/Wellbeing days, purchased leave up to 12 weeks, career breaks, and various specialized leaves. This breadth supports work-life balance and accommodates a wide range of personal circumstances.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental provisions include 16 weeks full pay (or 32 at half pay) for primary carers, four weeks for support carers, and continued superannuation during unpaid parental leave. Additional supports cover domestic and family violence leave, Family Pathways leave, and grandparental leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources include counselling and coaching services, workplace mental health training, free nutrition advice, and health insurance access with pre‑existing conditions covered if joined promptly. Financial and lifestyle perks include banking discounts for employees and families and the myDiscounts program.
Westpac Insights
What We Do
Westpac is Australia’s oldest bank and company, one of four major banking organisations in Australia and one of the largest banks in New Zealand. We provide a broad range of banking and financial services in these markets, including consumer, business and institutional banking and wealth management services. We also have offices in key financial centres around the world including London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. Westpac Group's portfolio of financial services brands and businesses is focused on our vision, which is "To be one of the world’s great service companies, helping our customers, communities and people to prosper and grow.”
