Head of Data Delivery

Sydney & Melbourne | Enterprise Platform Engineering | Westpac

Create your best future and join Westpac as Head of Data Delivery, a senior leadership role responsible for transforming how data products and data solutions are delivered at enterprise scale.

What’s the role?

As Head of Data Delivery, you will be accountable for enabling business units to autonomously own, govern, and deliver their data products, while ensuring enterprise‑grade delivery standards, scalability, and reliability across Westpac.

Reporting to the GM, Enterprise Platform Engineering, Technology, you will lead the end‑to‑end delivery and transformation of data products and data solutions, driving a fundamental shift from fragmented, bespoke delivery approaches to a modern, AI‑enabled, repeatable data delivery model.

The role balances the reliable delivery of committed outcomes with the design, proof and industrialisation of new delivery models, ensuring delivery performance is maintained while enterprise data delivery capability is materially uplifted. You will play a critical role in embedding agent‑enabled delivery approaches, scaling repeatable data delivery patterns, and transitioning data delivery from episodic change to enduring internal capability.

What will I be accountable for?

• You will own the end‑to‑end delivery of approved data products and data solutions, ensuring outcomes are delivered to agreed scope, cost, schedule and quality.
• You will enable business units to independently own and deliver their data products, supported by clear delivery models, standards, reusable patterns and guardrails that allow safe autonomy at scale.
• You will lead the enterprise‑wide transformation of the data delivery model, transitioning from legacy delivery approaches to modern, AI‑enabled execution while maintaining delivery cadence, predictability and throughput.
• You will design, prove and embed new data delivery models through real execution, not theoretical design, ensuring new approaches are operationalised and adopted into BAU delivery.
• You will lead and manage data delivery teams and squads, maintaining clarity of accountability through transition, and shifting delivery from bespoke, one‑off solutions to repeatable, scalable data product delivery patterns.
• You will embed AI‑first delivery approaches, including automation and agent‑based execution, into day‑to‑day data delivery, accelerating delivery speed and improving quality while reducing operational risk.
• You will define and enforce delivery standards, patterns and guardrails that enable scale, reliability, reuse and responsible AI adoption, and transition proven delivery models into core Data Delivery while retiring legacy approaches.
• You will coordinate dependencies across platforms, products and divisions to enable seamless end‑to‑end delivery flow, stabilising operational delivery while new capabilities are proven, scaled and adopted.

What do I need?

• You will bring deep experience delivering large‑scale enterprise data platforms and data products, with a strong background in data delivery, platform‑led execution, and operating model transformation.
• You will have proven experience leading data delivery, platform, or engineering teams in complex, regulated environments, and a strong track record of transforming delivery models while maintaining reliable outcomes.
• You will demonstrate a strong understanding of modern data delivery approaches, including product‑aligned delivery, automation, and emerging AI‑enabled / agentic execution models, with the aptitude to push delivery into new capability spaces.
• You will be comfortable operating at senior executive level, influencing and aligning stakeholders across technology, data, risk and business units within large, matrixed organisations.
• Experience in banking or financial services is advantageous but not mandatory; comparable enterprise environments will be considered. Familiarity with cloud‑based data platforms (e.g. Azure, Snowflake or equivalent) is desirable but not prescriptive.

Our Promise to You

At Westpac, we are committed to building an organisation that delivers meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities and people. In return, we offer flexible working arrangements to support work‑life balance, tailored learning and leadership development opportunities, competitive benefits and employee offers, and the opportunity to shape the future of enterprise data delivery at one of Australia’s leading financial institutions.

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