Senior Card Platform Architect & Tech Leader

Westpac New Zealand Limited

Wellington

Hybrid

NZD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Job summary

Westpac New Zealand Limited is seeking a Principal Engineer - Cards to lead technology strategy and target architecture across the Cards domain in Wellington. You will translate business needs into engineering outcomes, drive secure, scalable card issuing and servicing platforms, and partner with risk, product and operations to deliver customer outcomes.

The role requires deep domain expertise in cards, payments and enterprise engineering practices, coupled with strong leadership, governance and

Qualifications

Extensive software engineering, platform engineering or enterprise architecture experience.
Deep expertise in cards, payments, issuing or transaction processing.
Experience defining strategy, architecture roadmaps and long-term technical direction.
Strong security, resilience and scalable solution design.
Experience leading large-scale cards transformations and complex programs.

Responsibilities

Define technology strategy, target architecture and engineering roadmap for Cards.
Provide technical leadership across squads, services and platforms.
Drive architecture decisions for APIs, events and data flows.
Ensure solutions are secure, resilient, scalable and maintainable.
Partner with stakeholders to align with business objectives.