ANZ has introduced a new engineering career program, named ANZ Engineering Career Pathways. This initiative aims to enhance technical expertise and build a team of world-class engineers. The program will soon be available to approximately 3,000 engineers worldwide.
Engineers at the bank play a crucial role in implementing key aspects of ANZ's technology strategy and platforms. These include ANZ Plus, a leading payments platform, significant cloud capabilities, cybersecurity systems, expanding AI platforms, among others.
The new program is designed to support engineers in developing proficiency in essential areas such as cloud computing, security, data management, and software development. It offers an alternative to the traditional people-manager-centric career path. Eventually, this approach will extend to other technology disciplines like platform architects.
ANZ Chief Technology Officer Tim Hogarth stated: “This program is about investing in our future and ensuring we attract and retain the very best engineers. We are creating exciting opportunities for our engineers to continually deliver better customer experiences and to contribute to building a better bank."
He further explained: “We recognise that a ‘traditional’ leadership pathway is not necessarily suited to an engineer, so we saw an opportunity in which eight different engineering specifications over seven levels will be created, differentiating engineers from other careers in the bank and creating new choices for them."
Hogarth emphasized that this initiative would create an environment where engineers can grow and be acknowledged for their technical skills. He added that it would provide more opportunities to retain necessary talent for achieving critical outcomes for the bank: "We want to make ANZ a destination of choice for leading engineers, enabling them to work on complex, global and socially critical projects.”
The rollout of the Engineering Career Pathway program is scheduled to begin in February 2023.
For additional information on engineering careers at ANZ visit https://www.anz.com.au/about-us/careers/job-opportunities/