Lead Data Platform Modernisation Engineer

Westpac Group

City of Melbourne

On-site

AUD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

Westpac Group is seeking a hands-on data engineering leader to drive the modernization of our enterprise data delivery. You will lead a squad focused on ADAPT and Unified Framework, accelerating adoption of governed platforms, reusable frameworks and modern practices across the data domain.

Based in Sydney or Melbourne, you will stay close to technical delivery, mentor engineers, and partner with Product Owners and Domain Owners to raise quality, speed and scalability of data pipelines and

Qualifications

  • Strong, current hands-on data engineering experience across modern pipeline development.
  • Experience leading an engineering squad or team while remaining close to technical delivery.
  • Cloud data platform and engineering framework experience, ideally including Azure Synapse and Spark.
  • Strong DevOps, CI/CD and engineering automation capability.
  • Track record building reusable frameworks, patterns and engineering standards.
  • Confident stakeholder management, clear communication and a practical coaching style.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate a squad delivering engineering modernisation and capability uplift.
  • Stay hands-on across ADAPT and Unified Framework (UFW), guiding designs, code quality and engineering artefacts.
  • Accelerate reusable, metadata-driven pipeline patterns and self-service engineering capabilities.
  • Modernise Teradata and traditional batch solutions, reducing bespoke builds through standardisation and reuse.
  • Champion AMP, GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted engineering, reusable agents and automation that remove manual effort.
  • Set high standards across development, testing, deployment and support so solutions are secure, scalable and supportable.
  • Coach engineers, remove blockers and partner with Product Owners, Chief Engineers and Technology Domain Owners to improve delivery.

Skills

Data engineering leadership
Cloud data platform
Azure Synapse
Spark
CI/CD
Stakeholder management

Tools

Azure Synapse
Spark

Job description

Westpac Group is seeking a hands-on data engineering leader to drive the modernization of our enterprise data delivery. You will lead a squad focused on ADAPT and Unified Framework, accelerating adoption of governed platforms, reusable frameworks and modern practices across the data domain.

Based in Sydney or Melbourne, you will stay close to technical delivery, mentor engineers, and partner with Product Owners and Domain Owners to raise quality, speed and scalability of data pipelines and

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