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 Senior Manager – CommSec India Lead

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)

Business & Team:

We have a vision of becoming the leading business bank, powered by the next horizon of technology. 

We’re delivering on this by working hand-in-hand with our business colleagues to jointly solve problems with customer centricity and technical innovation, cultivating a world-class team of empowered people, and building technology solutions for the future.

You will be working as a part of Business Banking to achieve their strategic objectives through planning, prioritising, delivering and supporting projects and initiatives. Your team’s success will be realised through partnering with business and IT teams across business domain and Technology to deliver beautiful experiences and exceptional capabilities to our branch applications

Our solutions are relied upon and trusted by millions of Australians everyday, so we put a great deal of emphasis on reliability, performance, security and ease of use.
 

Impact & Contribution:

Apply advanced technical knowledge to deliver key strategic solutions which addresses business problems.

You will contribute to building a brighter future for our customers by ensuring that our team builds the best solutions possible using modern development practices that ensure both functional and non-functional needs are met.

If you have a history of building a culture of empowerment and know what it takes to be a force multiplier within a large organization, then you’re the kind of person we are looking for.
 

Reporting Lines:

• You will be reporting the Head of Business Banking Technology, CBA India.
• This role will have about 30-40 direct/indirect reports consisting of Engineering Managers, Software Engineers, Quality Engineers and Product Owner

Roles & Responsibilities:

The primary purpose of the role is to build high performing web platform teams. To continuously improve the web products with best engineering solutions.

• Set up digital engineering teams which consists of squads delivering products & initiatives aligning to bank's Strategic and business objectives.
• Establish a functional and seamless operating model that operates efficiently.
• Create empowered teams with decision making autonomy by providing leadership and clear direction that empowers squad members to deliver on priorities, outcomes and tasks.
• Deliver product with technical change aligned with the bank's strategic priorities.
• Ensure the creation of a high performing and engaged direct team through effective leadership.
• Protect, Simplify and improve the bank's core web and ensure assets roadmap and reference architectures are in place for your business domain.
• Ensures Compliance with the bank's change and delivery frameworks and methodologies.
• Adopt web development architecture, engineering, user experience and testing standards and practices.
• Establish a culture of continuous improvement and introspection.
• Manage an effective change pipeline by ensuring supply, demand and capability alignment.
• Identifies, raises and mitigates operational risks; work with stakeholders, partners and others to implement appropriate risk controls and measures.
• Promote the culture and values of the Crews and leads the team to do the same.
• Review and approve cost estimates at various stages of the delivery lifecycle.
• Support incident resolution and ensure collaborative and open post incident review and root cause analysis.
• Work with bank and partner stakeholders to ensure appropriately skilled resources are in place.
• Help to Track and manage squad finances and ensure cost recovery.
• Drive uplift in individual squad maturity and engineering practices

Essential Skills:

Must Have:

• Strategic Thinking.

• External perspective.  Understand market and industry trends. 
• Product delivery.  Proven record of delivering Customer Centric outcomes. 
• Experience working with distributed, cross functional teams. 
• Continuous delivery and Agile practices.
• Thought Leadership and People Leadership.
• Track record of building high performing teams.
• Expert knowledge in SDLC methodologies.  Adaptive to ways to optimise the analysis, development and testing of software. 
• Risk Mindset - All CommBank employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks.

Technology Skills:

• 18+ years of industry experience with 5+ years of leadership experience

• .NET Technologies

• Software architecture with modern patterns and practices
• Front End Web Development 
• Awareness of the following Software Development Concepts:
• REST and API Development
• CI/CD and DevOps
• TDD and BDD
• Micro-services Architecture
• Secure Coding Practices

Preferred:

• Leading change 
• Financial Services 
• Retail Trading Experience
• Application support and maintenance 

Education Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.

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