Senior Engineer - AI
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026. Westpac scores A on the Alion truth index.
Create your best future and join Westpac as a Senior Engineer.
What’s the role?
Senior Engineer role will focus on uplifting engineering standards and embedding AI within the SDLC across the Release Train.
You will work on several high-profile initiatives across multiple journey stages, delivering world-class engineering solutions that support the strategic goals of the business and the Group. You will engage with a broad and diverse range of stakeholders, providing strong visibility and opportunities to further develop your career.
This role will be responsible for translating Chief Engineer direction into practical engineering practices across the Release Train, including designing and deploying Agentic SDLC solutions and agents using approved platforms. You will drive automation-first engineering, contribute hands-on to software design and development, and embed strong standards across quality, testing, observability, resilience and production readiness. You will also coach engineers, promote reusable platform patterns, manage technical debt and risks, and champion full-lifecycle ownership across build, test, release and run.
What do I need?
- 10+ years in software development, coupled with tertiary qualifications in computer science or a related discipline.
- Well-versed in emerging AI technologies, with the ability to translate advancements into practical, real-world solutions.
- Practical, production-grade experience integrating Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services / Azure AI Foundry and modern GenAI patterns (RAG, agents, prompt and context engineering, evaluation) into supportable enterprise applications or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience with machine learning and AI frameworks including building and deploying LLM based applications (Generative AI, Chat Bots, NLP pipelines).
- Experience with agent orchestration frameworks and protocols, including LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent).
- Good understanding of PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, Cockroach DB, Vector Databases & Embeddings.
- API development experience using REST/JSON, SOAP/XML, Web service.
- Strong coding capability in at least two of TypeScript / JavaScript (React / Next.js), Python, Java and C#/.NET, plus competent SQL and data modelling skills; comfortable scripting in PowerShell.
- Strong DevOps / DevSecOps practitioner including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, secret management and release governance.
- Experience as an Azure/AWS Cloud Developer.
- Knowledge of Serverless/Microservice/Events based concepts and architecture.
- Ability to apply strong engineering fundamentals to emerging delivery patterns, including re-engineering business-built prototypes into secure, testable and production-ready services.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to partner with business owners, citizen developers, architects, risk and security stakeholders and uplift their practices.
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.
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