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Kieran O’Meara Reflects on 12 Years at Telstra, Discusses His Plans for Bendigo Bank
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Kieran O’Meara Reflects on 12 Years at Telstra, Discusses His Plans for Bendigo Bank

Apr 7, 2025 | 3 mins

When Kieran O’Meara migrated to Australia in 2011, he expected to stay for only two years.

O’Meara stayed much longer. In February, he called time on a 12-year tenure in senior tech roles at Telstra. This month he started work as Chief Technology Officer at Big 4 challenger, Bendigo Bank.

“I’ve had a huge amount of experience there [at Telstra], lots of learning, lots of great work, lots of fantastic colleagues. But after 12 years, I was looking for…something different that’s going to stretch me in other ways.

“I’ve got bigger ambitions and this opportunity with Bendigo is incredibly interesting,” he says.

Since 2019, the 165-year-old Bendigo Bank has gone from operating 8 different banks to 3, built more adaptive and responsive infrastructure by moving platforms to the cloud and reusing APIs extensively across its consumer and business operations.

All of Bendigo’s systems are expected to be consolidated onto…

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