Chief Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia20 hours ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with Crew Technology Leads across Risk and Finance Technology to solve complex engineering challenges and accelerate modernization.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, coaching, and guidance to engineers, Principal Engineers, and engineering leaders across multiple crews.
- Establish engineering standards and practices that improve software quality, maintainability, resilience, and delivery outcomes.
- Lead technical debt reduction and modernization of legacy platforms and applications.
- Drive engineering excellence across software development, platform engineering, testing, automation, observability, and operational resilience.
- Champion DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and contemporary engineering practices.
- Guide complex technical decisions and implementation challenges across applications, integration, and data platforms.
- Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering, developer productivity tooling, and process automation.
- Partner with data platform teams and the Chief Data Office to improve data accessibility, usability, and readiness for analytics and AI use cases.
- Build engineering capability through mentoring, coaching, and engineering communities of practice.
- Translate complex technical issues into risks, trade-offs, decisions, and outcomes for senior stakeholders.
- Foster an engineering culture focused on quality, simplification, ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Experience in large-scale enterprise environments with a strong track record of building internally developed applications.
- Experience with modern software delivery practices, secure design, CI/CD, and engineering quality at scale.
- Technical depth to work directly with engineers, challenge designs, break down problems, and guide implementation.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders, making pragmatic trade-offs, and communicating technical decisions clearly.
- Experience operating in complex or regulated environments while balancing modernization with risk, control, and operational requirements.
- Curiosity about the role of AI, GenAI, and agentic platforms in improving colleague and customer experiences.
- Knowledge of vendor application ecosystems and automation of the engineering components surrounding those platforms is desirable.
- Experience influencing enterprise data strategy from the perspective of business and technology consumers is desirable.
- Experience in Risk, Finance, banking, or financial services technology is desirable.
- Experience leading engineering transformation across multiple teams or crews is desirable.
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About Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is an ASX-listed bank headquartered in Sydney that provides retail, business, and institutional banking, payments, and wealth services across Australia. Its offerings include transaction and savings accounts, home and business lending, cards, merchant services, digital banking, superannuation, and investment platforms such as CommSec. Founded in 1911, the bank serves millions of customers through branches, contact centres, and online channels.