Senior Technical Lead - MongoDB

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Senior Technical Lead - MongoDB.

What's the role?

We are seeking an experienced MongoDB Senior Technical Lead with a solid understanding of how applications are built on MongoDB. The role combines MongoDB administration and operations with hands on application development experience. You will help new initiatives onboard to MongoDB, guide development teams on data modelling, schema design and query optimisation, and provide practical troubleshooting support for production issues. Experience with MongoDB Atlas is preferred but not essential.

What do I need?

• Hands on experience developing applications that use MongoDB, including data modelling, schema design, indexing and query optimisation.
• Strong experience administering and supporting MongoDB environments, including performance tuning, backup and recovery, and replication.
• Programming experience in one or more languages commonly used with MongoDB, such as Java, Python, Node.js or C#.
• Experience supporting development teams through onboarding, solution design, testing and production issue resolution.
• General platform engineering experience, such as automation, scripting, CI/CD, and working with cloud or containerised environments.
• Working knowledge of database activities including bulk data loading and data migration.
• Experience with MongoDB Atlas is preferred but not essential.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to give practical guidance to delivery teams.

Why join us?

We're obsessed with becoming our customers' 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.

Create your future today

We're all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone - no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find more information and contact details on our FAQs and how to contact us page, under the 'Diversity, sustainability and flexibility' section.

We may close this job advertisement earlier than the advertised closing date if suitable candidates are identified. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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