Role – Engineer OBP - Mortgage Lending & Originations
• Permanent
• Location: Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast
• Hybrid working model (2 days per week in the office + WFH)
How will I help?
Westpac Group has a rich heritage and offers employees a multitude of opportunities. We aim to attract the best people inside and outside of the business – building an organisation where the best talent thrives. In GroupTech we're striving to be game-changing technologists, shaping the future of banking.
We understand the big picture and focus on things that will move the dial for Westpac. Westpac has a complex Information Technology environment that needs to deliver to the rapidly changing needs of our customers and employees, the ever-evolving IT landscape and the Group's regulatory and statutory requirements.
The Westpac Banking Platform domain is seeking a Senior Engineer to join our team. This role focuses on providing advanced solution design and technical leadership expertise in delivering solutions for Loan Originations and Secured/Unsecured Lending projects. The Banking Platform team is involved in several exciting projects aimed at enhancing features for our Digital, Lender, and Broker Channels.In this role, you will develop 'fit for purpose' IT and business solutions to meet the diverse requirements across the Mortgages Platform portfolio. You will predominantly operate in an Agile environment, supporting technology capabilities to effectively deliver value to customers.
Your key responsibilities include:
As an Engineer, you will be responsible for but not limited to:
• Ensuring that the system design & code balances functional, service quality, security and systems management requirements.
• Collaborate with diverse teams across the bank, including Solution Designers, Functional Analysts, QA Engineers, and Project Teams, to maintain strong relationships and ensure technology requirements are well understood.
• Provide strong technical expertise to develop functional and technical solutions with the goal of providing reliable, stable and operationally sound applications that meet business requirements
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?
To excel in this role, candidates should bring the following experience and skills:
• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience are desirable.
• Knowledge of or some exposure to the Oracle Banking Platform, including modules such as Loan Management, Customer Onboarding, Collateral Management and Payment Processing.
• Experience in banking domains, ideally in Loan Originations, Lending (Secured/Unsecured), Digital Origination, and Integration using REST APIs.
• Knowledge of Oracle Banking APIs and frameworks for integration and customization.
• Experience with Oracle Database performance tuning and optimization techniques for banking applications.
• Experience with Core banking implementations is advantageous.
• Experience with Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Documaker will be an advantage.
• Proficiency in JAVA, J2EE, Oracle BPM, OBP Host, Oracle Service Bus (OSB), REST API, Microservices, and Kafka.
• Familiarity with Oracle ADF and Oracle SOA.
• Proficient with Oracle WebLogic Server, Apache Tomcat.
• Experience with web services, WSDL, SOAP, XSD, XML, JSON/YAML.
• Proficient with Oracle 12c or other SQL databases.
• Proficient in Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with version control using BitBucket.
• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment.
• Skills in issue root cause analysis using tools like Splunk, SQL Developer, and AppDynamics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating an open, clear, and engaging manner.
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.
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