How will I help?
The Principal Network Engineer is responsible for defining service strategy and reference Engineering and developing service or pattern design, leading to robust, flexible and quality Infrastructure services and solutions.
Your key responsibilities include:
- Responsible for setting and maintaining Infrastructure Service Strategy in close collaboration with Infrastructure Architecture
- Assists Service Owners in defining a portfolio specific service strategy & roadmap.
- Responsible for ensuring new service or pattern design adheres to Westpac’s specified design blueprints, roadmaps and standards.
- Participates in Infrastructure Service Engineering governance with the aim of ensuring adherence to standards & policies.
- Ensures Operational Readiness and Design & Control Assurance are adhered to at each agreed Solution Engineering Life Cycle stage gate.
- Leads Infrastructure service strategy translation from Enterprise Infrastructure strategy and maintains service strategy for Infrastructure portfolios.
- Leads and reviews development of pattern design and blueprints for end-to-end operational Infrastructure services.
- Responsible for providing key technology inputs to Service Catalogue Management and ensures information mentioned in Service Catalogue is accurate Performs
detailed analysis of Service Design requirements to understand infrastructure feasibility, costing, effort estimates, and support required from partners/vendors.
- Provides Technical Leadership to the team.
What’s in it for me?
You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.
What do I need?
- Seven+ years’ experience in IT/Engineering/Architecture including at least two years’ experience in a supervisory role.
- Five years’ experience in service delivery operations and a broad range of IT platforms and disciplines.
- Three years recent experience in large-scale infrastructure deployment projects.
- Three years’ experience in a financial services industry desirable.
- Two years recent experience in working with Architects and management teams in relation to large scale infrastructure design, planning and project management frameworks.
- Three + years management experience incorporating financial management and business case development of large-scale infrastructure projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills required Education.
- Tertiary qualifications in IT or related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Design experience across a broad section of IT Services.
- Strong technical background in multiple Infrastructure domains.
What’s it like to work there?
We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.
We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.
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How do I apply?
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At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.
We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au.
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au
