Senior Engineering Manager

• You are passionate, driven, flexible and collaborative
• We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking
• Together we will build tomorrow's bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters:

We're building tomorrow's bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia's future economy.

See yourself in our team:

We are passionate about empowering businesses and individuals to succeed with the next horizon of technology – to become the leading digital business bank in Australia. We also use technology to drive simplicity and better banking, an essential component of great customer service underpinning a strong emphasis on software development as a craft and the adoption of industry best engineering practices.

This role will work within the Banker Assisted Lending crew in Business Banking . This crew is accountable for creating differentiated banker experience to deliver superior customer value and satisfaction , and this role will be at the forefront of building the roadmap of the future.

You will lead a team that will create, manage and optimise the data platforms used to power our entire business. You'll have the opportunity to take responsibility for thought leadership, people management, capability uplift, continuous improvement, ensuring our crews are inspired to do the work that matters, and that our systems are simpler, faster and more secure to deliver outcomes

We are seeking people who are:

• Ready to execute state-of-the-art coding practices, driving high quality outcomes to solve core business objectives and minimise risks
• Natural leaders that drive a culture where quality, excellence and openness are championed
• Good at identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated platforms to develop scalable and sustainable long term solutions
• Able to drive data transformational projects, creating a positive leadership impact within the crews by encouraging diversity of thoughts, to uplift the chapter's overall technical capability
• Adept at achieving technical excellence through active mentoring, empowering engineers to grow and lead with confidence
• Able to drive innovation through AI-powered engineering, transforming complex challenges into intelligent, scalable solutions.
• Are comfortable working across the full lifecycle of agile projects (ideation through implementation)
• Have experience in implementation of data platforms at Enterprise level
• Have come up with innovative engineering solutions to large and complex problems
• Are highly experienced in design and development of large scale Data Platforms used at scale and associated cloud technologies
• Have a strong track record of being able to provide both thought leadership and support with hands on engineering work
• Have a demonstrated 'automation and self-service first' approach to problems

Technical skills:

We are driving a strategy of creating a best-in-class AWS based cloud-based data platform. We use a broad range of innovative tools and services to enable the data processing and access requirements of the CBA group with a key goal of enabling the utilisation of GenAI and other advanced data techniques across the business.

• People management experience with previous experience in playing leadership roles within data engineering chapter and a background of engineering experience
• Full cycle engineers having familiarity with object-oriented languages and databases
• Prior experience of working with Data Lakes, warehouses and data processing tools, having done large scale Data migrations before.
• Streaming services like Kafka and having built data products before.
• Expertise in leading and driving team of platform engineers utilising AWS services (EMR, Redshift, Glue, Athena among others) highly desirable
• Promote DevSecOps mindset within your chapter supported by world-class tools
• Experience working in an agile environment and in the use of work tracking tools such as JIRA
• Experience implementing large scale self-service enterprise data platforms highly desirable

If this sounds like you, apply today

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in office.

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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