• You are collaborative and enjoy solving analytical problems to help our team to reach highest potential
• We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking
• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters

We're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers 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.

CommBank is recognised as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Our Software team are the brains behind Australia’s number one banking app, Netbank, Cardless Cash, Comm Sec Pocket and Spend Tracker. We go beyond a passion for web and mobile development, creating reliable APIs at a unique scale in Australia. And you could be a part of that journey.

See yourself in our team

The CBA technology unit delivers the best digital banking services to Commonwealth Bank customers and to do so is responsible for digital delivery, group data and analytics, technology, and technology infrastructure, cyber, fraud, physical security, and business resilience for all divisions across CBA. It is also dedicated to delivering the best workplace technology experience for our over 53,000 people across CBA and focused on providing the latest tools, technology, and resources to enhance the way we work together and empower our people to achieve more for our customers.

You’ll be part of the CDAO (Chief Data and Analytics Office) team which is responsible for leading the delivery of world-class data, analytics, and technology capabilities to improve the financial well-being of our customers and communities. We’re in charge for CommBank’s key analytics capabilities and work to create world-leading capabilities for data analytics, information management and decisioning. We work across the AWS Cloud, Hadoop Big Data Platform, Analytics Workbench for Machine Learning, Pega Decisioning, SAS, R, Tableau, Oracle BI, Ab Initio. 

As an Engineering Manager - Chapter Lead, you will be leading engineers that report to you, instilling a growth mindset and innovative ways of working. You’ll play an important role in steering the organisation by providing expert advice relating to technology, solution design and architecture, people leadership and hiring. You will bring a perfect blend of people management and technical expertise and will be responsible for shaping the evolution of the technical squad by contributing to the technology strategy, drafting quarterly crew memos, prioritising backlog, defining delivery roadmaps, and deciding which problems to invest in solving.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Have demonstrated experience in leading high-performing cross-functional engineering teams with a solid technical background.
• Contributes to CommBank’s Engineering Management Practice by coaching and mentoring engineers and raising the bar for discipline across the organization.
• Effectively communicate engineering practice standards and consistent ways of working across squads and CBA that align to global best practice.
• Drives a true DevSecOps mindset, where engineering owns what they build and truly values customer feedback.
• Promotes open communication and creates a safe working environment where our engineers’ voices are heard to achieve great outcomes for our organisation, our customers, and the community.
• Encourages risk-taking and constructively challenges the status quo while influencing stakeholders and building diverse and inclusive teams.

Tech Skills:

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:

AWS Cloud

• Ideal Experience: Designing and managing cloud infrastructure, optimising costs, ensuring security.
• Tools and Technologies: e.g. EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Redshift.

Streaming Technologies

• Ideal Experience: Real-time data streaming and processing.
• Tools and Technologies: e.g. Apache Kafka, Apache Flink.

Programming Languages

• Ideal Experience: Proficiency in one of Java (scalable applications), Python (data analysis, ML, scripting), or Scala (functional programming, Apache Spark).

Data Engineering and AI

• Ideal Experience: Designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines; developing and deploying machine learning models.
• Tools and Technologies: e.g. Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark.

Platform Engineering

• Ideal Experience: Designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure platforms.
• Tools and Technologies: e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins.
• Focus Areas: Containerization, infrastructure as code, monitoring, security, and CI/CD pipelines.

Test Automation

• Ideal Experience: Designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test frameworks.
• Tools and Technologies: e.g. JUnit, Pytest, Playwright, Postman, and JMeter.

Additional Skills

• Banking Domain: Experience in banking is a plus for understanding industry-specific challenges.

Working with us:  

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by software engineering, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.

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