# Lead Engineer

Mō te tūranga | About the Role As a Lead Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership within our Service Operations Engineering squad while influencing engineering standards and practices across multiple teams. You'll help shape our engineering culture by driving consistency, improving technical capability, and promoting best-practice approaches to service operations and platform reliability. This 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. Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring? Strong enterprise platform engineering experience in ServiceNow, including integrations, configuration/customisation, upgrades, security, lifecycle management, operability, and technical debt. Proven technical leadership within an engineering or product squad. Strong solution design and technical decision-making experience. Experience working alongside Service Owners/Product Owners, architects, Cyber Security, risk and operational teams. Experience influencing other senior technical people a

- **Id**: 3953169
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/westpac-nz-lead-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New Zealand
- **Countries**: NZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T05:44:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T05:44:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3614
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commercial & Retail Banks

## Company

- **Id**: 450143
- **Name**: Westpac NZ
- **Domain**: westpac.co.nz
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/westpac-nz>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **ServiceNow** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T05:44:52Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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