Jobs at Reserve Bank of Australia

Supports and enhances critical Australian payments and settlement infrastructure. Responsibilities include operating high-availability payment platforms, maintaining messaging and integration environments, troubleshooting connectivity and system issues, supporting Linux-based infrastructure, and contributing to projects involving virtualization, networking, automation, and enterprise integration.

Lead financial risk modelling, stress testing, scenario analysis, model validation, and risk reporting for the Reserve Bank’s balance sheet. The role develops risk quantification capability, advises stakeholders and senior decision-makers on financial risks, coordinates monitoring, and mentors analysts. It requires quantitative expertise, financial markets knowledge, familiarity with value-at-risk or expected shortfall, R programming, risk frameworks, and strong stakeholder communication.

Two-year graduate program supporting operational risk, compliance, governance and resilience across Australia’s critical payment infrastructure. Responsibilities include identifying and assessing operational risks, monitoring controls, supporting incident investigations, conducting root cause analysis, planning remediation, and enhancing risk and compliance frameworks. Candidates will receive structured training and work with experienced risk professionals in the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments Settlements team.

Lead the planning and execution of infrastructure decommissioning across virtual and physical servers, compute, storage, SAN, and supporting services. Validate application dependencies, migrations, backups, retention, and business readiness before retirement. Coordinate with infrastructure, security, network, storage, operations, and asset teams while maintaining CMDB records, risk assessments, implementation and rollback plans, CAB submissions, and operational documentation. Support post-change validation, hyper-care, sign-off, and improvements to decommissioning procedures.

Manage the strategy, design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, and lifecycle management of enterprise integration services. The role delivers integration projects and enhancements, supports 24/7 highly available operations, addresses security and resilience requirements, maintains platforms and documentation, manages upgrades and vulnerabilities, and provides technical consultancy and governance. Responsibilities also include troubleshooting, root cause analysis, CI/CD support, asset and audit management, and collaboration across IT and business teams.

Lead data science and AI research addressing central banking, economic, financial, and public policy questions. Translate research into analytical tools, models, and capabilities for policymakers, collaborate across economics and policy teams, publish research, and provide technical leadership and mentoring. The role also helps shape the Bank’s data science platforms, methodologies, and broader analytical capabilities.

Analyze data from problem definition through recommendations, develop dashboards and analytical models, maintain data quality and governance, and partner with stakeholders to support strategic, operational, and regulatory decisions. The role also contributes to data operations, coaches junior analysts, and communicates complex findings to senior non-technical audiences.

Business Analyst supporting the Reserve Bank of Australia's Payments Operations Program. The role analyzes knowledge management and training requirements, develops processes and procedures, coordinates training content with subject matter experts and providers, and supports delivery across IT and operations teams. Success requires strong business analysis, stakeholder engagement, communication, documentation, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration skills. Banking or payments systems familiarity is desirable.

Designs and operates scalable hybrid infrastructure across VMware and Azure. Builds Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, develops CI/CD pipelines, manages platform automation and configuration tooling, and supports secure, reliable production environments. The role contributes to platform architecture, DevSecOps practices, technology evaluation, and enterprise standards while collaborating in Agile teams.

Designs end-to-end enterprise technology solutions spanning applications, APIs, data platforms, cloud environments, and external partners. Develops solution architectures, integration specifications, technology roadmaps, and reusable patterns. Collaborates with stakeholders, architects, engineers, vendors, and delivery teams to implement secure, resilient, compliant solutions. Supports hybrid integration, event-driven architectures, Azure cloud adoption, data architecture, and future AI and machine learning capabilities.

Lead operational risk management within the People & Culture function by strengthening risk culture, identifying and mitigating risks, developing controls, monitoring effectiveness, managing incidents, and reporting to senior leaders and governance committees. The role supports risk transformation, operational resilience, privacy topics, stakeholder training, risk forums, board reporting, and collaboration with Compliance, Internal Audit, and Line 2 teams.

Owns the enterprise telephony and collaboration service end to end, including Cisco Webex Calling and Microsoft Teams integration. Responsibilities include service governance, reliability, performance, security, incident troubleshooting, continuous improvement, and alignment with business needs. The role manages managed service providers, carriers, vendors, and internal technology teams while applying ITIL processes. Strong expertise is required in CUBE/vCUBE, SIP, PSTN, Direct Routing, SBCs, networking, and voice-quality troubleshooting.

Lead the planning and execution of a portfolio of IT-enabled business change initiatives across infrastructure, security, data management, and business applications. Provide strategic direction, portfolio oversight, governance, and accountability for complex projects and transformation programs. Manage executives, senior stakeholders, and assigned Project Managers, including performance management and career development. The role is a two-year fixed-term salaried contract in a hybrid work environment.

Lead adoption of ServiceNow Knowledge Management by embedding knowledge practices into workflows, improving content discoverability, monitoring usage metrics, and driving continuous improvement. Create visual guides, walkthroughs, videos, training, onboarding, and awareness campaigns. Collaborate with project teams, content owners, communications, and platform stakeholders to capture, maintain, and share critical knowledge while supporting accessibility and organisational standards.

Develop and improve technical procedures, business analysis outputs, and knowledge artefacts supporting RITS and related payment systems. Collaborate with subject matter experts across IT, Payments Settlements, risk, compliance, and external partners. Prioritize work, meet deadlines, and communicate clearly while contributing to knowledge management and operational improvements for Australia’s national payments infrastructure.

Lead analysis of systemic risks, vulnerabilities, and resilience across Australia’s financial system. The role develops recommendations on financial institution resilience and crisis preparedness, prepares briefings for senior executives, analyzes links across the financial system, contributes to climate-related financial stability analysis, leads projects, and coaches junior staff. Collaboration occurs with the Reserve Bank, APRA, and other public sector agencies.

Manage the end-to-end Problem Management lifecycle, investigate recurring technology issues, conduct root cause analysis, drive corrective actions, reduce problem backlogs, and improve service resilience. Develop ServiceNow reports, dashboards, and analytics while coordinating technology teams, service owners, change managers, and senior stakeholders. Apply structured methodologies such as 8D to strengthen governance, identify systemic risks, and prevent recurring incidents.

Provides commercially focused legal advice to the Reserve Bank of Australia on banking, payments, financial markets, regulatory, transactional, and financial stability matters. The role involves advising senior leaders, analyzing complex legal issues, assessing risk, drafting legal documents and advice, and building effective stakeholder relationships within a collaborative legal team.

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.

Oversee assessment, negotiation, acquisition, licensing, renewal, payment, and lifecycle management of data and information subscriptions. Consult with stakeholders, manage vendors and contracts, develop expenditure and usage reports, advise on copyright and compliance, support subscription trials and risk management, and contribute to current-awareness services and professional networks.