Release Management & Readiness Lead

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Release Management & Readiness Lead

At Westpac, we're undertaking a transformation of unprecedented scale and complexity.

Through our Unite function, we're bringing together multiple strategic initiatives into a single transformation programme focused on simplifying our technology landscape and supporting the migration of millions of customers onto a unified target technology stack across Retail and Small Business Banking.

What's the role?

As part of this journey we are seeking a Release Management Readiness Lead to join the leadership team responsible for helping deliver one of the Bank's most significant transformation initiatives. This is a rare opportunity to take on a highly visible role with exposure to senior executives and board-level governance forums while influencing outcomes that will impact millions of customers.

This is a rare opportunity to join the leadership team delivering one of the largest transformation programmes in Australian banking. As Release Management Readiness Lead, you'll sit at the centre of the Unite programme, providing the only end-to-end view across all Release Trains and helping guide critical decisions that impact millions of customers.

Working closely with senior leaders and executives, you'll help ensure the organisation is prepared for major release and migration events, while providing the insights, governance and coordination required to support successful programme delivery and outcomes regularly reported through Executive and Board governance forums.

What You'll Be Responsible For:

• Providing enterprise-wide oversight across all Release Trains, ensuring integrated planning, dependency management and delivery alignment across the programme.
• Establishing and embedding release governance, reporting and readiness practices that support successful customer migration outcomes.
• Overseeing major release events, including planning, readiness assessments, implementation support, hypercare and lessons learned reviews.
• Delivering executive-level insights, communications and reporting to support informed decision-making across the programme.
• Building strong relationships and influencing stakeholders across Business, Technology and Transformation to drive outcomes in a complex delivery environment.

What do I need?

We're looking for an experienced transformation leader who thrives in complex enterprise environments and has a proven track record of delivering large-scale business and technology change. You'll bring a strong understanding of how retail banking operates end-to-end and be confident leading across multiple stakeholder groups to deliver strategic outcomes.

• Proven experience leading large-scale transformation, migration, simplification or change programmes within complex organisations.
• Strong understanding of retail banking operations and the ability to connect programme delivery outcomes to customer, operational and business impacts.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating large, cross-functional programmes, managing interdependencies and driving alignment across Business, Technology and Transformation teams.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility and partner effectively with senior executives and business leaders.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, navigating ambiguity and competing priorities while maintaining momentum and delivery focus.
• Experience leading organisational readiness, business engagement and change activities to support successful programme outcomes.

You'll be recognised as a trusted and influential leader who can bring people together around a common goal. Combining strong business acumen with excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, you'll build trusted relationships across the organisation, influence decision-making at all levels, and drive outcomes in complex and evolving environments.

Most importantly, you'll bring the judgement, resilience and leadership capability required to help deliver one of Australia's most significant banking transformation programmes.

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.

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