Chief Engineer, Traded Risk — The Rocks, Sydney

Expired

How will I help? The Financial Markets Technology Team currently provides technology services in trading across FX and Debt Markets product set. This capability applies across the bank's customer base, 7 x 24 hours a day. The Financial Markets Technology team is now recruiting for a Chief Engineer to lead the existing Traded Risk technology team, with responsibly for Market Risk and Counterparty Credit risk systems and facing off to the Financial Markets and Risk businesses. This role will require managing the traded risk portfolio and team, as well as driving technology strategy in the risk space and your key responsibilities are: Delivery of the in-flight Market Risk Application Replacement project. Strategy and delivery of an ambitious program of simplification on Counterparty Credit Risk systems. Upcoming upgrades of multiple platforms. Vendor management of existing platform suppliers and partners. Driving excellence in change execution and uplifting engineering practices and delivery. Managing costs and providing dedicated leadership and workforce strategy for the existing team of approximately 60. What's in it for me? You will play an important and significant part in the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our vision is to become one of the world's great service companies. So, we will back you in the development of your career, with internal career prospects and flexible working. You will also be backed by a fantastic team of people in a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. What do I need? Understanding of traded risk concepts, understanding and appreciation for the quantitative and mathematical aspects of risk, familiarity with key vendors in this space. Understanding of markets, asset classes we trade and their derivatives, how they are priced, their lifecycles, language and conventions. Appreciation of markets and trading culture and demands. Deep engineering expertise and ability to drive engineering excellence. Strong track record of delivery excellence in markets and risk environments. Exceptional leadership and people skills and ability to create inclusive, diverse, cooperative and collegiate team culture across direct team, peers and stakeholders. Strong commercial acumen. Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills. Highly Desirable: Extensive experience in traded risk systems. Prior experience working with financial systems in Investment/Institutional Banks. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Good interpersonal skills & team player. Strong business acumen for FM products and business processes, as well as technology. What is it like to work there? As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth, and insurance benefits in the market. We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work. We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will have access to banking, wealth, and insurance benefits. LI-Hybrid. How do I apply? Start here. Just click on the APPLY button. At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisitionwestpac.com.au. Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process? We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please call 1800 655 592 Option 2.3 or email talentacquisitionwestpac.com.au