Principal Engineer / Technology Service Owner - Murex

This role can be based in Syndey or Melbourne.

Westpac Institutional Bank Technology supports the Financial Markets business through the delivery, operation, and ongoing enhancement of critical trading, risk, post-trade, regulatory, and data platforms. The Murex platform is a core Financial Markets capability supporting Front-to-Back trade processing, operational control, risk management, financial reporting, and regulatory outcomes across institutional markets products.

What's the Role:

Lead the design, delivery and service ownership of Murex front-to-back solutions across Carbon and Commodities, providing senior technical leadership to ensure platforms are scalable, resilient, well-controlled and aligned to business objectives. Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate complex regulatory, operational and market requirements into high-quality, production-ready solutions that support Financial Markets outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end design, development and delivery of Murex front-to-back solutions, supporting implementation and production readiness across Financial Markets.
• Act as the Service Owner for Murex capability, driving platform stability, resilience, governance and alignment to business objectives.
• Provide deep expertise across trade lifecycle management, STP processing, Front Office workflows and downstream system integrations.
• Partner with Risk, Treasury, Finance, Operations and Technology teams to deliver new products, regulatory initiatives, platform upgrades and strategic change programs.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, testing uplift, environment optimisation, defect resolution and production support excellence.
• Mentor engineers and analysts while managing vendor relationships, delivery dependencies and ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions.

What do I need?

• Extensive experience delivering Murex solutions within Financial Markets, with deep expertise across Front Office, trade lifecycle management, STP and front-to-back processing.
• Strong understanding of rates, credit, FX, commodities, derivatives and treasury products, with experience supporting complex trading environments.
• Proven capability in Murex solution design, implementation, release governance, production readiness and service ownership across critical platforms.
• Technical expertise across MxML, Datamart, market data, static data, reporting, reconciliation, downstream integrations and production support, with knowledge of SQL, automation and CI/CD highly regarded.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence business, technology, risk, operations and vendor teams while driving service resilience and continuous improvement.
• Commitment to quality, control and operational excellence, ensuring stable, scalable solutions through effective risk management, governance, automation and knowledge-sharing 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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