Engineering Manager

• We're embarking on an engineering transformation with a key focus on team leadership, engineering excellence and AI enablement.
• You have knowledge that spans across development and operations, including coding, infrastructure management, system admin/engineering, and DevOps Toolchains.
• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading engineering, technology, and innovation.

Do work that matters

CommBank is shaping the future of banking by seeking innovative and diverse engineers to help redefine customer expectations and develop technologies that support Australia's evolving economy. Renowned for its cutting-edge IT infrastructure and digital innovation, CommBank leads the industry with products like the CommBank app, NetBank, and Cardless Cash. Their Software team builds scalable, reliable APIs and digital solutions that power everyday banking experiences. They’re looking for Full Stack engineers with strong technical expertise to influence architectural decisions, drive AI integration, and collaborate with stakeholders to shape the bank’s tech strategy.

See yourself in our team

The CBA Technology unit powers the bank’s digital excellence by overseeing digital delivery, data and analytics, infrastructure, cyber security, fraud prevention, and business resilience across all divisions. It also enhances the workplace experience for over 53,000 employees by providing cutting-edge tools and technology. Within this unit, the Customer Present Crew—part of the Payments Acceptance domain in Business Banking Technology—focuses on Australia’s largest payments terminal network. Engineers in this team work on both in-house platforms and with global partners, offering diverse career development opportunities across the broader CBA ecosystem.

As an Engineering Manager – Chapter Lead, you’ll combine strong technical leadership with people management to drive innovation and growth. You’ll guide a team of engineers, shape tech strategy, influence architecture and design decisions, and prioritise delivery roadmaps. Your role is key in fostering a high-performing, forward-thinking engineering culture while aligning technical execution with business goals.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Can build, lead, and inspire an engaged team of engineers, while fostering an engineering culture of excellence and Psychological Safety.
• Contribute to CommBank’s Engineering Management Practice by coaching and mentoring engineers and raising the bar for the discipline across the organisation.
• Effectively communicate engineering practice standards and consistent ways of working across squads and CBA that align to global best practice.
• Promote open communication and create a safe working environment where our engineers’ voices are recognised thereby achieving great outcomes for our organisation, our customers, and the community.
• Drive operational excellence and support teams in charge of mission-critical production services with diverse stakeholders and complex dependencies.
• Encourages risk-taking and constructive challenges, while growing diverse and inclusive teams.
• Establish innovative ways of working, successfully advocating for new technology approaches, and possess the experience to understand the architectural integration of new software solutions.

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:

• Back-end: strong hands-on experience with Java or C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core
• Sound knowledge of large-scale distributed systems, Microservices, and Rest API Integration
• Databases – PostgreSQL, Oracle.
• DevOps and CI/CD – GitHub Actions, TeamCity.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus/Grafana, Observe, AWS CloudWatch.
• AI & Machine learning and LLM knowledge is desired.
• GenAI tools – Cline, Cursor, AWS Bedrock.
• Expertise with Security Engineering principles and implementation.
• Cloud native development - AWS preferred, with AWS Certification a bonus.
• Understanding on DevSecOps environment and landscape, SRE Practices
• Working with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Octopus etc.
• Leveraging IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Driving quality with modern automated testing.
• Designing robust systems and solutions with a focus on security and scalability.
• Promoting code quality through peer programming, code reviews, and automated release pipelines.
• Mentoring and developing the next generation of engineers.

Working with us:  

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

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your 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. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all of Australia, you’ll be empowered to do your best work and be given the choice on when and where that work happens. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

If this sounds like you, apply now!

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