Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer #51131

Permanent position
Location – Sydney
Excellent Career Opportunity

How will I help?
Data Platforms CBB - Consumer Finance & Cash, & Transactional Banking is a team of data experts and professionals dedicated to building game-changing data capabilities for Westpac Group and shaping the future of banking. We understand the big picture and focus on and deliver initiatives that will significantly and positively impact the Westpac Group.
Westpac Group has a significant transformation agenda over the next few years, and we are committed to contributing meaningfully and impactfully. The Group operates within a complex Information Technology environment that must adapt to the rapidly changing needs of our customers and employees, the evolving Data & Technology landscape, and regulatory and statutory requirements.
Our team plays a crucial role in navigating these complexities and delivering effective solutions. We ensure that the Group remains agile and responsive, enabling us to meet these challenges head-on and deliver on our strategic objectives.
Our mission is to help business units deliver value to the bank, customers, and shareholders by providing the data products and services necessary to achieve strategic outcomes. Additionally, we support the broader data science and analytics community in unlocking the full potential of data and analytics.
As a Lead Engineer, you will be a strong technical expert, responsible for building real-time and batch data solutions. You will play the role of a senior engineer, handling multiple programs concurrently, and be the go-to expert for the development of solutions.
Your responsibilities will include the enhancement, maintenance, and support of the technical deliverables within your domain. This involves hands-on coding, ensuring the quality of your team's output, representing your team in various forums, and aligning your team's contributions with the overall strategic roadmap.
You will also be responsible for reviewing and validating technical designs and estimates produced by team members, designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and ensure successful delivery.
You will collaborate with engineers across the domain to define the technical direction for service offerings, work with service owners and business stakeholders to shape the delivery roadmap and coordinate with support teams to ensure smooth delivery.
Additionally, you will lead teams of engineers across multiple locations, ensuring they meet performance expectations and deliver high-quality results within budget and timelines.
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?

7+ years of experience developing large-scale applications using Scala and Python.
Proven expertise in real-time streaming jobs, with extensive experience in real-time data processing and streaming pipelines in production environments.
Demonstrated ability to handle large datasets (10s-100s TB) using PySpark in numerous production workloads.
Extensive experience in optimising Spark code using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) involving several strategies to enhance performance and efficiency.
Experienced working with HDFS, pig, hive, HBase, Phoenix etc.
Extensive experience and understanding of cloud platforms, particularly within Azure, having worked with services like ALDS, EventHub, Stream Analytics, HDInsight, Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Cosmos DB, Kubernetes. Similar experience with AWS/GCP is also fine.
Strong foundation in functional programming and data structures.
Solid understanding and experience in data warehousing concepts.
Commitment to delivering high-quality, peer-reviewed, and well-tested code.
Expertise in DevOps functions, contributing to CI/CD pipelines.
Experience in implementing MLOps pipelines in production is advantageous.
Proficient in using source control tools, preferably Bitbucket, with a good understanding of branching and merging strategies.
Tertiary qualifications in a Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile development environment.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Commercially aware, with the ability to collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders.
Enthusiastic about coaching and mentoring junior Engineers.
Experience in leading teams, including line management responsibilities.

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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