As a Senior Engineer, Market Risk Specialist, you will play a key role in delivering commodities product capability across Westpac Institutional Bank's market risk technology landscape. Working within Traded Risk Technology, you'll help enhance the platforms that measure, monitor and report market risk across a complex institutional banking environment.

You'll work across a range of market risk systems and technologies, partnering closely with Front Office, Market Risk Management, Operations and Technology teams to deliver scalable, well-controlled solutions. You'll lead technical analysis, product configuration and solution delivery, helping ensure commodities risk is accurately captured, measured and monitored through sensitivities, VaR, stress testing and limits frameworks.

In this role, you'll solve complex business and technology challenges, support strategic initiatives, drive continuous improvement and provide technical leadership across the market risk platform estate. You'll also have opportunities to leverage automation and AI-assisted analysis to improve efficiency, reduce operational risk and support delivery outcomes.

• Strong experience within market risk technology, traded risk technology or financial markets technology in a regulated banking environment.
• Experience working with trading or risk platforms such as Murex, Calypso, FIS AA, Meerkat or similar systems.
• Understanding of market risk concepts including VaR, sensitivities, stress testing, limits management, market data and regulatory requirements.
• Proven ability to analyse complex technology landscapes, perform impact assessments and solve end-to-end business and technical challenges.
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders across business, risk and technology functions.
• Knowledge of SQL, scripting, automation, AI-assisted analysis, CI/CD, Jira or Confluence is highly regarded.

Our Promise To you

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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