Head Of Technology, Coo Sydney, Nsw, Australia Posted On 04/11/2024 Be The First To Apply

How will I help?

An exciting opportunity is available for a Head of Technology to join Westpac and lead the technology strategy for the Chief Operating Office, Consumer. This role will have dedicated focus and oversight to fulfill our regulatory, compliance and project management obligation s. This role will act as the primary point of relationship management between Technology and COO stakeholders, including ensuring the divisions are supported in relation to technology strategy and our technology simplification program.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Support the overall technology strategy for COO Consumer, as well as driving transformation across Westpac's Technology Simplification program.
• Manage the compliance of systems and processes within COO Consumer, including managing risks, issues, and incidents, ensuring controls are appropriately designed, tested, and implemented, and implementing business continuity and disaster recovery measures.
• Build an effective team, empowering them to achieve their goals and drive performance
• Ensure appropriate risk levels are maintained to support Westpac's strategic and operational priorities and apply measures to manage and monitor risks in the accountable technology team.
• Implement technology frameworks, policies, and standards to ensure effective governance, reporting and control within Consumer Technology.
• Provide guidance on initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and delivery of Technology projects or programs to optimise outcomes for COO Consumer.

What's in it for me?

You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is of creating better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grown, backed by a fantastic team of people with 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?

To be successful in this role, you need to have the following skills:

• Track record of delivering on technology transformations with company-impacting scale and multi-year projects.
• Strong understanding of risk, governance and compliance frameworks within Technology and/ or Banking.
• Strong technical experience and a passion for getting involved in the details.
• Ability to drive technical excellence, pushing customer first innovation, quality and operational excellence.
• Strong organisation and communication skills.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills.
• Driving clarity from single line requirements and providing direction in an ambiguous environment
• A track record of strong execution and delivering results.

What's it like to work there?

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. With us you'll discover new ways of working, and an exciting range of roles to showcase your skills. As an equal opportunity employer, we're proud to have created a culture where people can be their best, in an environment that values diversity and flexibility and one where everyone belongs.
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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

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 Option 2.3 or email