Lead AI Engineer — Financial Crime Protection (Hybrid)

Westpac Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac Group in Australia is seeking a hands-on technical leader for AI Services to build a major Financial Crime Protection intelligence solution in a hybrid Sydney or Melbourne setup.

You will bring domain SME expertise, guide backend services, APIs, data, AI components, and guided human review experiences while ensuring safe, auditable decisions.

This role emphasizes governance, security, and production readiness, with cloud-native patterns, versioned releases, and mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• Deep Financial Crime Protection domain SME experience.
• Strong backend, API and web app development capabilities.
• Experience with AI services, ML signals or LLMs is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the financial crime protection intelligence solution from concept to production.
• Define data contracts, signals, models, and review workflows.
• Mentor engineers and translate domain needs into safe production outcomes.

Skills

Go

Python

SQL

TypeScript

React

Next.js

API Design

Data Governance

Job description

Westpac Group in Australia is seeking a hands-on technical leader for AI Services to build a major Financial Crime Protection intelligence solution in a hybrid Sydney or Melbourne setup.

You will bring domain SME expertise, guide backend services, APIs, data, AI components, and guided human review experiences while ensuring safe, auditable decisions.

This role emphasizes governance, security, and production readiness, with cloud-native patterns, versioned releases, and mentoring engineers.