Jobs / Westpac Group
Chief Platform Engineer, Data Platforms
Westpac Group · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sydney, NSW, AustraliaHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Chief Engineer for Data Platforms is responsible for leading the technical direction and design of the Data Platforms ecosystem, which includes Lakehouse, data warehouses, and data integration capabilities. This role involves defining platform strategy, driving performance and reliability engineering, and coaching senior engineers while embedding DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering practices to enhance operational efficiency.
Benefits
Employee-only mortgage ratesFlexible work arrangementsVariety of leave optionsLearning and development opportunitiesVolunteering initiatives
Qualifications
- Significant experience providing technical leadership across large, complex data platform environments.
- Advanced knowledge of data technologies and cloud computing, including platforms such as Microsoft Synapse, Databricks and Teradata.
- Experience defining engineering strategy, architecture, standards, patterns and roadmaps for enterprise-scale platforms.
- Strong knowledge of DevSecOps and SRE models, practices and tooling.
- Demonstrated capability leading complex technical programs, platform transformation and large-scale migrations.
- A strong understanding of how technology and business priorities connect, with the ability to turn stakeholder needs into practical platform outcomes.
- Highly developed communication and influencing skills, with a track record of building trusted relationships across organisational levels.
- A practical innovation mindset, including the ability to apply emerging AI and agentic architectures to complex business and engineering challenges.
- A commitment to coaching engineers, lifting capability and creating an inclusive environment where different perspectives can contribute.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategic technical direction and end-to-end design of the Data Platforms ecosystem.
- Shape platform engineering strategy and roadmaps across Lakehouse, data warehouse, data integration and information management capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership for complex programs transforming the data landscape, including large-scale migrations.
- Drive platform performance, cost optimisation, reliability, security and scalability.
- Set direction for agentic automation and the evolution towards more autonomous platform operations.
- Partner with stakeholders to continuously improve the platform roadmap and user experience.
- Embed strong engineering practices, including innovation, DevSecOps, SRE, effective analysis, design, programming and testing.
- Coach and mentor the platform engineering community, helping senior engineers grow as technical leaders.
Skills
Databricks
Relocation
No