Jobs at Reserve Bank of Australia

Coordinate end-to-end contingent workforce activities for the PMO: onboarding/offboarding, extensions, compliance, data integrity, reporting, resource tracking, stakeholder management, documentation ownership, and proactive issue escalation to maintain workforce governance and audit readiness.

Drive CMDB data quality, governance and remediation in ServiceNow for Payment Settlements. Identify and fix CI data gaps, establish ownership and governance, define health metrics and reporting, implement certification/attestation, partner on Discovery/ITOM issues, and improve asset lifecycle and operational practices.

Lead coordination of technology workstreams for the Payment Operations Program, managing schedules, budgets, risks, procurement, vendor contracts, reporting, and stakeholder engagement to ensure aligned delivery and resilience of critical payments infrastructure.

The role involves leading the ServiceNow technical team, maintaining platform stability, overseeing administration tasks, and enhancing the platform through agile methodologies.

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.

Lead planning and delivery of complex infrastructure, data centre and application migration projects using Agile/hybrid methodologies. Manage stakeholders, vendors, risks, dependencies, testing, cutover and operational transition, providing governance, reporting and benefit realisation oversight.

Lead business analysis for security and resilience initiatives across Australia’s critical payments systems (RITS, FSS, SWIFT). Elicit and document business and technical requirements, translate security/regulatory needs into actionable specs, run stakeholder workshops, maintain BRDs, user stories, traceability, and support ISO27001/SWIFT CSP compliance and vulnerability remediation across projects.

Provide coordination and business support to the Technology Strategy, Risk and Performance section: manage meetings, prepare papers and presentations, track actions, support reporting and governance, assist onboarding and team administration, and improve coordination practices.

Lead a team of IT Risk Advisors to manage and improve the IT risk profile, embed Risk and Compliance Framework practices, partner with IT leaders and Line 2 to strengthen governance, facilitate risk forums and reporting, and drive a strong risk culture across the technology function.

Lead technical implementation of functional test automation across complex payments systems. Design, develop and execute automated tests and frameworks, maintain test artefacts, enforce testing standards, expand automation coverage, support UAT environments, and champion quality improvements within an Agile/Waterfall context.

Provide commercial legal advice on payments, financial markets, banking, payment systems infrastructure, and related regulatory matters. Draft legal documents, assess legal risks, advise senior leaders, and manage competing priorities within a collaborative legal team.

Lead and manage delivery of national payments system operations, ensuring high availability, incident management, resilience testing, compliance, stakeholder engagement, and people leadership across a 24/7 team.

Deliver and improve enterprise monitoring, automation, scheduling and scripting to ensure operational readiness. Provide 2nd level support, configure monitoring and scheduler tools, create PowerShell scripts and APIs, maintain system documentation, and support incident and problem resolution with continuous improvement.

Paid eight-week full-time summer internship at the Reserve Bank of Australia for penultimate-year economics/econometrics students. Interns undertake supervised research projects, produce a research paper, present findings, attend training, network with staff, and may be considered for a graduate program.

Manage and drive supplier performance for multiple managed service providers supporting a major infrastructure transformation. Oversee contractual compliance, SLAs/KPIs, variation resolution, procurement support, stakeholder liaison, governance, risk mitigation, and collaborative vendor relationships to enable timely, cost-effective delivery.

Manage design, build, test, deployment, and lifecycle support of enterprise integration services (B2B/file transfer, SWIFT, APIs). Deliver project and BAU changes, ensure high availability, security controls, incident response (3rd line), CI/CD, migrations, patching, asset management, and maintain integration centre of excellence through documentation, governance and stakeholder collaboration.

Lead development and scaling of enterprise continuous improvement capability, design frameworks, run structured analysis and workshops, and deliver enterprise-wide improvement initiatives. Engage senior stakeholders, support strategic planning, build a community of practice, and ensure initiatives deliver measurable outcomes aligned to enterprise priorities.