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
We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to help realise business and technology objectives through solution architecture activities. This role is responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of complex systems. We are looking for people with a strong pedigree in the following areas:
- Integration – Strong pedigree in enterprise businesses (banking highly desirable)
- Security – Oversight of cyber security initiatives and supporting security for the wider technology landscape
- Digital – Large-scale digital transformation initiatives
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 large transformation programmes. You will work closely with business, product, and delivery teams. 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 to shape viable solution options.
Solution Design – Build end-to-end designs across the various architecture layers, including key architecture decisions.
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 – Present designs to executives, the business, and developers, while simplifying complex concepts.
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+ 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
Strong appreciation of risk and security in regulated environments
Solid understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks
Skills Required
- 5+ years of architecture experience
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills at all levels
- Background in banking is desirable
- 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.
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.”
