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Chief Engineer at Commonwealth Bank

Chief Engineer

Commonwealth Bank · Sydney, New South Wales, AU

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Chief Engineer

Commonwealth Bank · Sydney, New South Wales, AU

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About the Role

Shape digital experiences for customer service and assisted channels by leading technology strategy and engineering excellence at scale, utilizing modern cloud, AI, and engineering platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and drive a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and pragmatic delivery.
  • Own architectural design, technology roadmap, and delivery outcomes across complex, live technology environments.
  • Partner across product, architecture, risk, and delivery to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient customer service technology.
  • Lead modernization across legacy and future-state platforms, including reusable service domains, cloud-native architecture, and platform patterns.
  • Drive engineering excellence through modern software development practices, CI/CD, observability, secure design, and production readiness.
  • Provide thought leadership, mentor senior engineers, and uplift technical capability across teams.
  • Influence senior stakeholders, balancing speed, quality, customer outcomes, operational risk, and technology resilience.
  • Help build simpler, smarter, and more reliable experiences for colleagues supporting customers.

Requirements

  • Deeply technical, hands-on engineering leaders with experience in large-scale, complex technology environments.
  • Strong architectural judgment, modern engineering experience, and ability to influence across product, risk, architecture, and delivery.
  • Experience leading enterprise-scale technology environments, including architecture, engineering standards, and end-to-end delivery.
  • Experience modernizing complex platforms, including legacy transition, service domains, APIs, cloud, or microservice-based architectures.
  • Understanding of reliability, observability, security, controls, and operational risk in production environments.
  • Ability to guide solution design across complex problem spaces and support teams through architecture guardrails and standards.
  • Experience with modern software delivery practices, secure design, CI/CD, and engineering quality at scale.
  • Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, making pragmatic trade-offs, and communicating technical decisions clearly.
  • Curiosity about the role of AI, GenAI, and Agentic platforms in improving colleague and customer experiences.
  • Commitment to mentoring others, building capability, and creating an inclusive engineering culture.

Skills

  • Cloud platforms
  • AI
  • Engineering platforms
  • Architecture
  • Software development
  • Systems engineering
  • Infrastructure engineering
  • Network engineering
  • Platform engineering
  • CI/CD
  • Observability
  • Secure design
  • Production readiness
  • APIs
  • Microservices
  • Legacy modernization
  • Service domains

Experience Level

  • Chief Engineer

About the Company

  • CommBank is building tomorrow's bank today, redefining customer and colleague experiences.
  • Retail Technology delivers technology and operations across every aspect of CommBank and Bankwest Retail.
  • CommBank is committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and respectful workplace.

Equal Opportunity

  • We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
  • Particularly committed to making a positive difference for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
  • If you require support or adjustments, please let us know.
  • Aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. If you require additional support please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696.