# Principal Engineer Data and AI

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Principal Engineer What’s the role? Ready to solve complex engineering problems and help teams deliver safer, simpler and more reliable technology? Join Westpac as a Principal Engineer and create technical leverage across Shared Data and AI, Digital, or Contact Centre teams. You will work across one or more squads, focusing your effort where complexity, dependency and risk are greatest. You will combine deep expertise in one or more engineering domains with broad systems thinking. Depending on the team, your work may span customer-facing digital experiences, APIs and distributed services, data products and platforms, AI-enabled capabilities, colleague tools, contact centre technology, cloud platforms or shared engineering foundations. You will clarify complex problems, guide important design decisions, validate uncertain assumptions through practical prototyping, and help teams adopt solutions safely. You will create reusable patterns and clear technical boundaries that enable squads to deliver autonomously, rather than becoming a central approval point. You will lead through technical authority, practical contribution, coaching and inf

- **Id**: 3802550
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/westpac-principal-engineer-data-and-ai>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sydney, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T05:56:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T23:28:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7248
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commercial & Retail Banks, Business & SME Lending

## Company

- **Id**: 1766325
- **Name**: Westpac
- **Domain**: westpac.com.au
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/westpac-com-au>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **Australia** — Iso: AU; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T12:07:37Z

## 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:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T01:54:03Z

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