Jobs at Reserve Bank of Australia

Senior Platform Engineer responsible for delivering and maintaining infrastructure automation, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, certificate management, software packaging, and CI/CD solutions. The role focuses on secure, scalable, compliant platform engineering across hybrid environments, troubleshooting complex issues, vulnerability remediation, on-call support, root cause analysis, documentation, governance, and continuous improvement.

Leads regulatory obligations management and regulatory change activities for a bank. Responsibilities include interpreting and drafting obligations, coordinating change impact assessments, improving compliance frameworks and systems, advising business stakeholders on compliance impacts and controls, preparing governance reports, and monitoring regulatory developments. The role requires extensive compliance and risk management experience, strong analytical and documentation skills, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise Network DevOps, automation, security hardening, vulnerability remediation, and network engineering. Leads architecture across routing, switching, WAN/SD-WAN, data centers, firewalls, load balancing, and security platforms. Establishes Network as Code, Git, CI/CD, automated testing, governance, and deployment standards. Mentors engineers, leads incident and zero-day vulnerability responses, evaluates automation opportunities, and ensures new capabilities transition effectively into operations.

Support, integrate, maintain, and enhance critical payment and settlement infrastructure. Troubleshoot high-availability services, messaging, connectivity, and systems integration issues across Linux, virtualization, networking, and enterprise environments. Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders on technology initiatives, identify automation and platform improvement opportunities, and help ensure resilient, high-performing payment services.

Designs and leads complex Customer Identity and Access Management architectures for the Reserve Bank of Australia. Responsibilities include defining architecture standards and high-level designs, guiding IAM platform configuration and deployment, developing phased migration strategies, integrating multiple identity providers, implementing phishing-resistant authentication, managing architecture approvals, and providing technical leadership across business and delivery stakeholders.

Lead and facilitate Scrum and Kanban teams delivering IT change initiatives. Establish Agile practices, coach team members, facilitate ceremonies, support backlog prioritization, manage risks and dependencies, track metrics and action items, and provide governance reporting. The role requires stakeholder coordination, conflict resolution, financial and procurement compliance, project planning, and oversight of implementation delivery. It is not a traditional project management or line management position.

Support the design and implementation of operational risk and compliance frameworks, policies, and standards. Provide risk expertise, coaching, and guidance to business areas; prepare risk reporting; conduct control testing and assurance activities; and collaborate with Line 1, Line 2, and other stakeholders to strengthen governance and risk management practices.

Coordinates visiting researcher, scholar, and adviser programs, including visitor experience, travel, accommodation, scheduling, onboarding, stakeholder communications, events, budgets, procurement, reporting, and documentation. Builds relationships with researchers, policymakers, and internal stakeholders while supporting seminars, workshops, conferences, and external research engagement initiatives. Contributes to continuous improvement and promotes the department’s research activities.

Leads resource management for a 300-person Core Modernisation Program, including strategic workforce planning, resource governance, demand forecasting, capacity and capability management, financial alignment, stakeholder engagement, and workforce transition or demobilisation planning.

Manage the strategy, design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, and support of enterprise integration services. Deliver integration projects and enhancements, maintain high availability and cybersecurity controls, support B2B file transfer incidents, administer platforms and infrastructure, manage upgrades and vulnerabilities, and provide design consultancy. The role also maintains integration governance, documentation, knowledge sharing, and technical standards across the organization.

Leads the strategic and operational direction of the Safety and Wellbeing function. Provides authoritative advice to senior leaders on workplace health and safety, wellbeing, workers compensation, risk, incidents, and regulatory responsibilities. Oversees WHS governance, assurance frameworks, ISO 45001 alignment, psychosocial risk management, reporting, and continuous improvement. Builds organisational safety capability, leads a professional team, manages resources and external providers, and promotes physical and psychological safety across the organisation.

Lead engagement and operational readiness for a major technology modernisation program. Manage change and readiness plans, stakeholder relationships, interdependencies, benefits realisation, vendor activities, risks, and transition into business-as-usual operations. Lead change specialists and collaborate with technology and application migration program managers across complex delivery environments.

Administer and maintain the enterprise ServiceNow platform: monitor health and performance, manage users/roles/security, configure workflows/business rules/forms/UI policies, resolve incidents and defects, support upgrades/patches/releases, ensure compliance and platform stability, and collaborate with analysts, developers and vendors to drive continuous improvement.

Manage the strategy, design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, and lifecycle management of enterprise integration services. Responsibilities include supporting B2B file transfer systems, delivering integration projects and enhancements, maintaining resilience and cybersecurity controls, responding to incidents, managing upgrades and vulnerabilities, designing secure inter-system connections, administering CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining integration documentation, governance, and technical standards.

Leads the Project Risk and Oversight team within the Bank’s second-line risk function. Provides independent review, challenge and reporting across major projects and transformation programs, assessing delivery and delivered risks, governance, controls, implementation readiness and risk acceptance. Advises executives and Board committees, identifies portfolio-wide themes, strengthens project risk practices, and leads, coaches and develops risk and assurance professionals.

Lead a major overhaul of systems and processes supporting the RBA’s financial responsibilities to the IMF and Treasury. The role focuses on automating financial transaction processes, reducing operational risk, improving policies and systems, managing stakeholders, and overseeing implementation through completion. Experience in process automation, process improvement, risk and issue management, and internal and external relationship management is required. Knowledge of automated payment messages and international financial transaction risks is preferred.

Administer and maintain enterprise Windows and Red Hat server infrastructure across on-premises and hybrid environments. Support project transitions into BAU operations, manage VMware environments, troubleshoot systems, automate configuration with Puppet and scripting, and oversee patching, backups, monitoring, vulnerability management, compliance, and incident/change/problem processes. Collaborate with project teams, vendors, technical specialists, and operational teams to ensure reliable, documented, production-ready solutions.

Leads cyber governance, risk, and compliance activities, including third-party risk assessments, control testing, audit coordination, risk reporting, framework mapping, operational resilience reviews, and automated control assurance. Partners with business and risk stakeholders to strengthen cybersecurity maturity, regulatory compliance, and enterprise risk management across the organization.

Engineer and support enterprise LAN, WAN, data center, network security, and cloud-connected infrastructure. Develop automation with Python, Ansible, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, and Network as Code. Automate compliance validation, vulnerability remediation, configuration management, and security hardening while supporting incident response and production changes. Integrate network platforms with ServiceNow, Tenable, and Microsoft Defender, and collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, and delivery teams.

Supports the planning phase of Australia’s RITS modernisation program through strategic, economic, policy and operational analysis. The role involves stakeholder consultation, capability and delivery-option assessment, business-case development, executive briefing materials, governance support and consensus-building across internal and external stakeholders, including central banks, regulators and industry participants.