AddressHow will I help?
An exciting opportunity is available for a Senior Solution Architect to join the Data Domain architecture team in the Chief Technology Office. The Data Management architecture team is responsible for creating a highly productive and effective environment that not only delights its users but also makes a real difference. As a trusted custodian of data, we ensure that our customers' data is managed safely and responsibly and used to their benefit.
The Senior Solution Architect will be a key player in supporting Westpac's Data Management, Data Governance, Records Management, and Data Products platforms. You will be instrumental in developing the architecture for our services and guiding their evolution.
Your key responsibilities include:
- Providing technical leadership for projects relating to IT solutions in the data domain with specific focus around the capabilities outlined above.
- Consulting and developing Solution Architecture solution built on a shared data capabilities (eg leverage data products on a data mesh like platform)
- Building reference architectures for the domain capabilities.
- Championing the transition from a monolithic batch-based data architecture towards a domain-centric and micro-services-based architecture.
- Contributing to the domain's technology roadmap.
What's in it for me?
You will play an important and significant part in the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our vision is to become one of the world's great service companies. So, we will back you in the development of your career, with internal career prospects and flexible working. You will also be backed by a fantastic team of people in 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.
What do I need?
To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate the below skills:
- Proficiency in information management and governance capabilities such as master, reference and metaData Management, data lineage and data quality, records management.
- Extensive architecture experience in IT Industry/financial services or business consulting/strategic planning.
- Experience with data modelling and information architecture (preferably banking related)
- Knowledge of Enterprise Architect disciplines and frameworks (e.g. TOGAF)
- Strong senior stakeholder communication and relationship skills.
- Exposure to modern data stack technologies such as Apache Spark and Kafka.
- Exposure to modern data architectures such as data mesh, domain driven design.
- Exposure or hands on experience Data Ops (DevOps) on native cloud data platform (PaaS services) and or containerisation over either Azure or AWS.
- Exposure to Big Data/data lake and Data Warehouse implementations (e.g. Teradata, Cloudera, Azure ADF/Synapse, AWS Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks)
What's it like to work there?
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth, and insurance benefits in the market.
We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.
We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will have access to banking, wealth, and insurance benefits. #LI-Hybrid.
How do I Apply?
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At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email ***************@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 call 1800 655 592 Option 2.3 or email ***************@westpac.com.au
