Chief Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia30 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the technology roadmap, target-state architecture and engineering guardrails for Economic Crime Platforms.
- Lead the strategy, architecture and delivery of investigation, machine learning, agentic and analytics platforms.
- Guide the development of trusted data products, engineering intelligence and reusable platform capabilities.
- Champion cloud-native architecture, microservices, application programming interfaces, automation and infrastructure as code.
- Embed security, data quality, privacy, lineage, observability and risk management throughout the engineering lifecycle.
- Strengthen engineering excellence through DevSecOps, DataOps, automated testing, continuous delivery and reliability practices.
- Partner with senior Technology, Architecture, Risk, Security and Service Management stakeholders to translate complex needs into practical outcomes.
- Mentor engineers, coach technical leaders and uplift engineering capability across the platform.
Requirements
- Accomplished engineering leader with deep technical expertise, sound architectural judgment and enterprise influence.
- Experience leading the architecture and delivery of complex, enterprise-scale engineering or data platforms.
- Experience designing cloud-native solutions using AWS, containers, serverless technologies and infrastructure as code.
- Experience with modern data architecture patterns such as lakehouse platforms, data mesh and domain-aligned data products.
- Experience delivering reliable ingestion, integration, application programming interface, workflow or decision-engine capabilities.
- Experience embedding secure engineering, data governance, privacy, observability and operational resilience in regulated environments.
- Experience enabling machine learning, automation, generative artificial intelligence or agentic use cases through trusted platform capabilities.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders, translate business, risk and technology priorities into executable engineering strategies, and build collaborative engineering cultures.
Benefits
- Accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace with support and adjustments available.
- Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds, with a particular commitment to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
- Advertising end date: 27/11/2026.
- Existing Commonwealth Bank Group employees, including Bankwest and x15ventures employees, must apply through Sidekick.
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.