Organization: At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title - Engineering Executive Manager

Location - Manyata Tech Park, Bengaluru

Business & Team - Commonwealth Bank of Australia is one of the top 4 banks and a leading financial institution in Australia. This role sits within Bankwest Technology, where Bankwest is a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank. Bankwest has a rich heritage. We’re proud to be part of the fabric of Western Australia with a strong culture built on local support. We’ve always been innovative, evolving over time to look after a growing regional market and seeking out new customers in all of Australia. With the support of a strong partner in CBA, we share a belief in the value of our brand, our potential for growth and a big aspirational vision. We're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers and engineering leadership to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.

Impact & contribution - Bankwest's Technology Division develops and executes all technical change within the organisation to deliver the Bankwest strategy. The Division works on a wide variety of technologies and projects with the support of a dedicated team in an Agile methodology. Our team is responsible for the world-leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of the bank – from product platforms for our customers, to essential tools within our business. We are looking for the very best Engineering Executive Manager to join our Bankwest leadership team from CBA India. In this role, you will be accountable to lead a team of 200+ colleagues and manage agile software delivery teams and partnering with the Product partners to drive technology delivery. The leader will support to deliver an ambitious vision against our customer objectives: to create enduring technology differentiation with unmatched digital experiences built on decoupled, resilient, and reliable technology foundations. The 3 key objectives for our customers are:

• Enhance customer value through unlocking dependable digital experiences.

• Increase delivery velocity & autonomy by unwinding complex legacy architecture.

• Enable always available channels, powered by simpler and more resilient technology.

Reporting lines - You will be reporting to the General Manager, Technology Products - CBA India and will have a dotted line reporting to General Manager – Strategy for Bankwest Technology.

Roles & Responsibilities - As an Engineering Executive Manager of Bankwest Technology from CBA India, you’ll be an integral member of our team. You will leading a strong pool of talent and is responsible for future growth and capability building for the organization. You will guide those around you to invest in their own engineering craft and mentor them to build world class applications. You will influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams and champion the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

• Have extensive leadership experience in leading high performing engineering teams.

• Build, lead and inspire an engaged team of engineers.

• Set up autonomous squads to deliver products & initiatives aligning to Bankwest’s strategic priorities and business objectives.

• Drives cultural and process changes supporting modern delivery practices.

• Have real world experience of building and leading teams who operate in the DevSecOps model.

• Encourages risk-taking and constructively challenges the status quo while influencing stakeholders and building diverse and inclusive teams.

• Provide effective coaching to engineers and establish mechanisms for peer to peer learning and mentoring.

• Role model a culture of engineering empowerment, autonomy, psychological safety and constructive challenge.

• Understand unique skill sets of team members, providing personalised feedback and guidance.

• Communicate to senior management and key stakeholders to ensure clear path to execution.

• Communicate Engineering Practice standards and consistent ways of working across the domain and CBA that align to industry standards.

• Allocate time for code review, refactoring and tech debt elimination over feature delivery.

Essential Skills - Should have 17+years of Industry experience

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these will set you up for success in this team:

• Solid experience working with large scale distributed systems and able to operate in a multi-platform environment.

• Expertise with automation and designing software architecture in the banking domain.

• Developing 3-tier application both on-premises and on cloud covering:

  • Frontend: React and Redux (preferred) or Angular.

  • Backend: .Net Core (preferred), C#.

  • Database: SQL and NoSQL experience.

• Microservices design and implementation of highly scalable APIs.

• Scripting/programming languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python).

• CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus).

• Cloud - AWS along with certification

• Solution and System Design.

• Application Security and Observability.

• Code quality control through peer programming, code review, and automated pipeline management.

• Experience working on green field project is highly regarded.

Education Qualification - Tertiary qualifications in computer science and related fields

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