Jobs at Reserve Bank of Australia

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.

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 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.

Lead a team delivering IT control testing and automated assurance; coordinate testing activities, partner with Line 2 and IT risk teams, manage external providers, support governance and reporting, and strengthen organisation-wide IT risk and compliance.

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 quantitative and qualitative economic and policy analysis to support RBA priorities on banknotes and the future of money; engage industry stakeholders, communicate policy, and mentor junior staff while contributing to evidence-based policy development.

Lead design, implementation and optimisation of on-premises infrastructure, IaC (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines and automation. Provide DevOps tooling leadership, ensure governance and security alignment, collaborate with Agile teams, document standards, and mentor colleagues during transition to new infrastructure platforms.

Design, implement and enhance financial market risk frameworks for the Reserve Bank of Australia. Provide technical analysis on market operations, risk management and policy implementation, engage senior stakeholders and governance forums, and support central bank operations including stress and extraordinary policy measures.

Lead functional testing for critical national payments and settlements systems. Plan and execute risk-based test cases, run manual end-to-end and regression tests, report and triage defects, maintain test artefacts, coordinate test activities, and produce handover documentation for operations.

Lead Line 1 risk and compliance activities for Payments Settlements, coaching leaders, embedding risk frameworks, assessing and remediating operational risks, testing controls, improving risk data and reporting, and driving cultural uplift and compliance with regulatory obligations.

Manage and maintain the Azure platform health and performance, respond to incidents, support project readiness, implement FinOps, design CI/CD and IaC deployments, ensure security/governance, provide on-call/shift and after-hours support, and participate in business continuity testing.

Owner of test automation for payments settlement systems: design, update and optimise automation frameworks and scripts, run CI/CD-based testing, support functional testing of mission-critical systems, and collaborate with stakeholders to identify and mitigate deployment risks.

Provide project coordination and governance support for payments migration within the Core Modernisation program. Maintain meeting materials, RAID and action logs, assist PSR QA and reporting, manage schedules and Jira/MS Project work plans, support stakeholder coordination and procurement tasks, and improve governance and delivery practices across PayMi workstreams.

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

Lead and grow the Bank's cyber defence and response capability across threat intelligence, offensive security, incident response and security operations. Set strategy, advise senior leadership during incidents, drive operational resilience and continuous improvement, and build partnerships with government and industry to strengthen national critical-infrastructure cyber resilience.