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You'll help shape our engineering culture by driving consistency, improving technical capability, and promoting best-practice approaches to service operations and platform reliability.\nThis is more than a senior engineering role. You'll combine hands-on technical expertise with leadership, mentoring engineers, guiding technical decision-making, and partnering with stakeholders to deliver resilient, scalable, and customer-focused technology solutions.\nNā tāu rourou | What will you bring?\nStrong enterprise platform engineering experience in ServiceNow, including integrations, configuration/customisation, upgrades, security, lifecycle management, operability, and technical debt.\nProven technical leadership within an engineering or product squad.\nStrong solution design and technical decision-making experience.\nExperience working alongside Service Owners/Product Owners, architects, Cyber Security, risk and operational teams.\nExperience influencing other senior technical people and creating shared engineering standards and reusable patterns.\nStrong modern engineering practices, including source control, automated testing, CI/CD and iterative delivery.\nEvidence of coaching and developing engineers, rather than being the person who personally solves everything.\nExperience balancing delivery with reliability, observability, recoverability, performance, security, and maintainability.\nExcellent attitude and communication.\nWestpac Hei Wāhi Mahi | Working at Westpac\nIn addition to immersing yourself in a supportive team environment, you'll receive some great job perks and benefits including:\n4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave to support you to be your best\nAdditional purchased leave options up to 4 weeks per year\nBanking benefits, insurance discounts and superannuation scheme\nGrowth and development - we provide opportunities for development and promote internal mobility\nRecognition - we recognise and reward our star performers\nSchool holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holiday\n2 Volunteer days per year\nKo mātou tēnei | Our Organisation\nAt Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together.\nWhat makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. We’re a place where you can bring your whole self, your ideas and your ambition, and have the support and opportunities to keep growing. Here, you can do meaningful work, make a difference for our customers and be part of something bigger. Because when we each bring our best and bring it together, there’s no limit to what we can achieve.\nTono mai ināianei! | Apply Now!\nApply today with your CV and Cover Letter.\nThe people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to build a team rich in different perspectives, experiences and abilities. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodivergent, have chronic health conditions or disabilities. 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