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About the Role
Seeking a Chief Engineer to lead engineering excellence and uplift engineering capability across the Risk and Finance Technology portfolio. This role requires a highly credible, hands-on engineering leader who can work directly with engineers and technical leaders to solve complex problems, improve engineering practices, and drive high-quality technology outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Crew Technology Leads across Risk and Finance Technology to solve complex engineering challenges and accelerate modernisation outcomes.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and coaching to engineers, Principal Engineers and engineering leaders across multiple crews.
- Establish and uplift engineering standards, practices and ways of working to improve quality, maintainability and delivery outcomes.
- Lead the reduction of technical debt and support the modernisation 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 teams through complex technical decisions and implementation challenges across applications, integration and data platforms.
- Drive the responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering, developer productivity tooling and process automation.
- Partner with the Chief Data Office and data platform teams to improve data accessibility, usability and readiness for analytics and AI use cases.
- Build engineering capability through mentoring, coaching and the development of engineering communities of practice.
- Translate complex technical issues into clear risks, trade-offs, decisions and outcomes for senior stakeholders.
- Foster a strong 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 working 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.
- Curious about the role AI, GenAI and Agentic platforms can play in improving colleague and customer experiences.
- Technical depth to work directly with engineers, challenge designs, break down problems and guide implementation.
- Experience operating in complex or regulated environments and balancing modernisation with risk, control and operational requirements.
Skills
- DevSecOps
- CI/CD
- Automation
- Reliability
- Secure engineering practices
- Software quality
- Maintainability
- Resilience
- Platform engineering
- Testing
- Observability
- Operational resilience
- Infrastructure automation
- AI-assisted engineering
- Developer productivity tooling
- Process automation
- Data accessibility
- Data usability
- Data readiness for analytics and AI
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- Engineering communities of practice
- Risk management
- Technical debt reduction
- Modernisation of legacy platforms
- Cloud platforms
- Vendor application ecosystems
- Enterprise data strategy
- Risk technology
- Finance technology
- Banking technology
- Financial services technology
- Engineering transformation
Experience Level
- Principal Engineers
About the Company
- Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures)
Equal Opportunity
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