Posted:
4/8/2026, 3:09:32 PM
Location(s):
New South Wales, Australia ⋅ Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Experience Level(s):
Senior
Field(s):
Product
Senior Engineering Manager
You are a natural leader passionate about creating an innovative team culture
We are a team of high performing engineers pushing the boundaries of engineering
Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading engineering, technology, and innovation
Do work that matters
As a Senior Engineering Manager at CommBank, you’ll balance hands on technical leadership with people development, creating an environment where engineers can do their best work. This role is accountable for the establishment and ongoing BAU operation of the Group Reconciliations Platform (DIM SaaS), ensuring sustainable service delivery and operational stability as part of the persistent run team. You’ll be accountable for end-to-end product outcomes, combining deep technical leadership with commercial, customer, and risk ownership. You’ll partner with the vendor and build strong relationships with the relevant business units and our key stakeholders and lead a small team of passionate engineers to build a scalable, secure, customer-first solution. You’ll lead what we build, why we build it, and how it creates value, working as an equal partner across Engineering, Design, and our Federated Business Units.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the establishment and ongoing BAU operation of the Group Reconciliations Platform (DIM SaaS), ensuring sustainable service delivery and operational stability as part of the persistent run team.
Partner with all CBA business units to ensure this Group solution supports their individual needs.
Develop a product roadmap in collaboration with key business stakeholders and, where appropriate, influence the vendor to align uplift activities accordingly.
Lead and coach a team of engineers to deliver high‑quality software products and platforms.
Create an environment of trust, learning, and psychological safety.
Ensure reliability, observability, and security are embedded in all solutions.
Partner closely with Product and Design in a triad leadership model
Drive modern engineering practices, from CI/CD to cloud-native development.
Foster a culture of innovation, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
Own product strategy, roadmap, and prioritisation aligned to customer value and business outcomes.
Translate strategy into measurable outcomes (OKRs, KPIs, value hypotheses)
Balance time, cost, risk, and value in decision‑making.
Act as the single accountable owner for product across the whole group.
We’re interested in hearing from people who
Have a Risk Mindset –All CommBank employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks.
Have the ability to build, lead, and inspire an engaged team of engineers while also fostering an engineering culture of excellence.
Can contribute to the Bank’s Engineering Management Practice by coaching and mentoring engineers and raising the bar for the discipline across the organisation.
Can effectively communicate engineering practice standards and consistent ways of working across squads and CBA that align to global best practice.
Skills Required
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. As the Leader of people and work, significant experience across the following areas is required for you to be successful in this role:
Strong technical foundation in modern software engineering practices (cloud, APIs, Integration, DevOps).
Proven ability to coach and mentor engineers for technical and career growth.
Ability to balance product, engineering, and delivery trade‑offs.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience building and running production systems at scale in a leadership role.
Familiarity with agile delivery models and full‑cycle engineering ownership.
Working with us
Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.
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 and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in the 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 in the role you’re interested in.
If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!
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Website: https://commbank.com.au/
Headquarter Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Employee Count: 10001+
Year Founded: 1911
Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt
Industries: Banking ⋅ Finance ⋅ Financial Services ⋅ Wealth Management