Technical Delivery Lead - 1 year contract

Westpac; Takutai; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand is seeking a Delivery Lead to drive a critical transformation program. The assignment is for 1 year and requires a seasoned practitioner with digital delivery experience across customer journeys, identity, access, and entitlements, as well as fraud assessment and transaction authorisation.

The role demands strong collaboration, enterprise leadership, and hands-on use of Microsoft Project and Jira to manage interdependencies and ensure delivery alignment with strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Seasoned practitioner with experience in digital delivery of customer journeys.
• Experience with identity, access, authorisations, entitlements.
• Knowledge of fraud assessment and transaction authorisation (BioCatch a plus).

Responsibilities

• Manage and control assigned streams of work within the digital programme.
• Operate within a programme construct of interdependent initiatives.
• Partner with the TAL / SGO for that respective solution area.
• Enacts the first team principle of enterprise leadership.
• Ensures that all action and activity is connected to strategy.
• Problem-solver who takes initiative to clear items across the team to prevent risk.
• Collaborative in handling many interdependencies.
• Hands-on with Microsoft Project and Jira to expose critical path and delivery oversight.

Skills

Digital delivery

Program leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jira

Microsoft Project

Job description

About us

At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to Help New Zealanders Succeed. As a Bank and one of New Zealand's leading employers, we are passionate about helping people. We are taking action today to create a better future for the people who bank with us, work with us, invest in us or are part of our broader communities.

Mō te tūranga | About the Role

The Delivery Lead role within Technology is pivotal in driving one of our critical transformation programs.

The assignment will be 1 years and outstanding market rate, demanding a seasoned practitioner, ideally with experience in digital delivery of customer journeys and ideally as it relates to identity, access, authorisations, entitlements, fraud assessment, transaction authorisation, and BioCatch.

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

• Manage and control assigned streams of work within the digital programme
• Operate within a programme construct of interdependent initiatives
• Partner with the TAL / SGO for that respective solution area
• Enacts the first team principle of enterprise leadership
• Ensures that all action and activity is connected to strategy
• Highly motivated by ‘done’, a problem solver that takes the initiative to own the clearing of items across the team to prevent the accumulation of risk
• Good at dealing many interdependencies and will require a highly collaborative practitioner
• All will be hands on with Microsoft Project (to expose critical path, understand dependency and manage the consequence of variation) and Jira (to allow oversight of delivery through the squads)