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Mō te tūranga | About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect for a 06 month contract to design and deliver scalable digital and mobile solutions within a major digital transformation initiative.
The Senior Solutions Architect role helps realise business and technology objectives through solution architecture activities. This role is responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of complex systems, with a strong focus on supporting a large digital transformation programme. You will work closely with business, product, and delivery teams to shape solutions across modern digital platforms, including web, APIs, and mobile native applications. The role balances strategic intent with hands on delivery, ensuring architectures are practical, scalable, and support incremental outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements Discovery and Analysis - Engage stakeholders to understand business goals, constraints, dependencies, and risks in order to shape viable solution options.
Solution Design - Design end to end solutions across multiple architecture layers, making clear and pragmatic architecture decisions that support delivery at scale.
Digital and Mobile Architecture - Provide architecture guidance for modern digital channels, including mobile native applications on iOS and Android, web platforms, and supporting backend services.
Technical Leadership - Provide technical leadership across delivery teams, guiding design decisions and trade offs throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Governance and Quality - Ensure solutions align to enterprise principles, standards, and governance processes, while remaining fit for purpose and delivery focused.
Stakeholder Communication - Communicate and present solution designs to executives, business stakeholders, engineers, and delivery teams, simplifying complex concepts where required.
Risk Management - Identify technical risks, constraints, and dependencies early, and work with teams to define appropriate mitigation strategies.
Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?
5 plus years of architecture experience.
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills at all levels.
Background in banking is desirable across retail, commercial, investment banking, cards, payments, and loans.
Experience in financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated environments is also welcome.
Experience working in large corporate or enterprise level organisations.
Strong appreciation of risk and security in regulated environments.
Solid understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks.
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.
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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.”
