Chapter Area Lead Advanced Analytics Platform

• You are a passionate leader, specialized in managing high-performing teams in Cloud, Big Data, MLOps, GenAI Decisioning and Visualisation 
• We're one of the largest and most advanced MLOps and Cloud Engineering teams in the country 
• Together we can build state-of-the-art ML and data solutions that power seamless experiences for millions of customers 

​Do work that matters 

 

Engineering the future of banking - We're building tomorrow’s bank today, envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining MLOps and GenAI platforms that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.  

 

As a Chapter Area Lead Advanced Analytics Platform specialising in our MLOps Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Quality Engineering and Data Engineering chapter, you will bring a wealth of leadership expertise, managing large teams of platform, data, software engineers. To us, data and AI is everything. It is what powers our cutting-edge features and it is the reason we can provide seamless experiences for millions of customers from app to branch. 

 

We’re responsible 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. 

 

You will be part of an empowering group of future leaders that are constantly driving outcomes, behaviours, cultural mindsets and risk-mitigating practices within the engineering teams. You will lead and manage teams that produce a unique set of data products to deliver enterprise scale frameworks to meet our needs for cost effective, reliable and auditable outcomes, in line with the Group’s Data & Analytics strategy.  

 

What will set you up for success?  

 

Our Chapter Area Lead are hands-on technical leaders, defining their teams’ technical roadmap and fostering a world-class engineering culture of innovation and curiosity.  

• Prioritise the work that will give them what they need to be happy, productive and autonomous. 
• An evangelist for engineering principles, practices and standards 
• Be responsible for the strategic technology direction for the team, including managing code 
• Manage workforce planning and staff retention, cultivating a safe and trusted working environment where our engineers voices are heard 
• Designing new application features and communicating these to stakeholders and your team 

 

We’re interested in hearing from people who: 

 

• Are life-long learners serving as connectors, empowering leaders facilitating open communication and establishing relationships between individuals and teams, to drive great outcomes
• Elevate craft capabilities, strategically applying expertise across the portfolio to accelerate delivery
• Share and impart their experience in driving software strategies from solution design to delivery  
• Are passionate about establishment of best engineering practices, continuous improvement, change and transformation in the ways of working 
• Have driven cultural, mindset and process changes supporting modern delivery practices 
• Strong Leadership (including People Management), not just Project Management
• High level of communications and negotiation skills, including the demonstrated ability to solicit opinions and accept feedback
• Experience in operating effectively as part of cross-functional teams
• Proficiency in key capabilities – IT SDLC processes, written documentation/ specification skills
• Experience in working across a number of technical domains with the ability to understand new emerging technical skills, help team to implement optimal solutions by cross-skilling them

 

Tech skills:  

 

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks, which always results in our people leaders managing a diversified team of engineers in every chapter. We do not expect that you come with previous experience in managing teams that have worked with all of these skillsets, but exposure to common environments wherein you have people managed similarly skilled teams or any equivalent leadership experience will also set you up for success in this role! 

 

Most importantly, experience and a natural ability to influence decisions & educate & manage multiple stakeholder groups, along with a real passion to contribute for thought leadership will be ideal! 

• MLOps tooling understanding including model registry services, model monitoring services, Feature Stores. 
• Cloud tooling understanding such as Terraform, CFTs and EKS.
• Hadoop, Snowflake, Redshift platform understanding
• Scala, ANSI/ISO SQL along with backend coding expertise in Java and Python   
• Machine Learning libraries ad model development, Jupyter notebook 
• Tableau VizQL 
• Pega visual language 
• Realtime Streaming technologies, Kafka and Flink

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