Empower your career growth—become a Senior Solution Designer at Westpac!
What’s the role?
Join Westpac, one of Australia's largest banks, as a Senior Solution Designer and play a key role in shaping innovative, end-to-end technical solutions across multiple projects within our Retail Banking domain. You'll provide expert guidance across business and IT, ensuring designs align with architectural roadmaps and deliver real impact. Working within a Digital Delivery Train, you'll help transform staff sales and servicing technologies using modern Java-based stacks including React, Node.js, Spring Boot and Kafka—all within an agile, collaborative environment.
Main role and responsibilities are:
• Translate business requirements into solution designs that align with enterprise architecture and domain roadmaps.
• Support the Solution Architect in assessing current-state impacts and defining future-state architectures.
• Lead the integration and alignment of end-to-end designs across multiple teams and systems.
• Ensure traceability from high-level architecture to detailed design and oversee resolution of cross-application design and testing issues.
• Provide governance and assurance on internal and third-party solutions to ensure compliance with architectural standards.
• Support IT estimation processes and present solution options with cost, benefit, and risk assessments.
• Collaborate closely with business and technology stakeholders to ensure effective engagement and delivery.
• Guide development teams in resolving design issues and promote agile practices for continuous improvement.
• Stay informed on emerging technologies and contribute to strategic technology planning and innovation
What do I need?
• Strong experience in senior level roles within the IT industry, digital Frontend experience is an advantage
• Strong background across multiple architecture domains, with deep expertise in solution architecture and system design.
• Solid understanding of systems development, integration, support, and maintenance.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly grasp new technologies and their practical applications.
• Effective leadership, team management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and consultative capabilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to chair meetings and manage differing viewpoints constructively.
• Familiarity with financial services environments, including relevant applications and products.
• Experience applying contemporary IT practices and agile methodologies.
• To be happy to role your sleeves up and code when needed
• Familiar with C4 model or TOGAF
Why join us?
We’re obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:
• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives
Create your future today
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We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.
If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find out more information and additional contact details by visiting the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website.
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