Product Owner Core Services

Do work that matters 

As someone who never shies away from a challenge, let us present ours to you. We are seeking, a highly competent and motivated Technical Product Owner to manage a portfolio of critical and high available technical products that underpin our customer services and products. We want your help.

The size and nature of our banking systems and the pace at which our customers' expectations are changing means we're always seeking out the latest technology, experimenting and pushing the boundaries. Our work is key to future proofing one of Australia's largest companies. 

See yourself in our team 

As a Product Owner, you will operate at the vanguard of the bank's DevSecOps transformation as you preference building automation through software engineering excellence. Achieving superlative outcomes for our crew, and the Bank.

You will be accountable for the availability lifecycle management of our products and their roadmaps under your remit. Through translating our strategic intent into stories and tasks we will drive execution. You will lead our engineers as they work incrementally at pace towards our objectives and key results.  

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you. 

We're interested in hearing from people who 

• Work closely with engineers and crew leads to translate product vision, strategy and roadmap into actionable tasks and be responsible for delivery outcomes.

• Collaborate with Business Stakeholders and other internal product teams to continually deliver value from the product and drive towards our strategic ambitions.

• Work with the squad to define problems into user stories and solutions into business value.

• Participate in research and evaluate data to inform decision making, embedding continuous learning and improvement.

• Work collaboratively with engineers, other product teams and Business Stakeholders to prioritize the backlog for the product that continuously delivers measurable value enabling and achieving business results. 

• Contribute to all stages of the product process including problem/solution definition, design, prototyping, delivery and optimisation. 

Tech skills  

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don't expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;  

• Strong technical domain knowledge 'T' Shape - extensive hands-on experience with VMware is essential

• Knowledge of IT infrastructure (server virtualisation, networking, storage)

• Building roadmaps and sprints using Jira

• Go, Python, Java, Javascript languages, and Bash scripting

• Automation friendly data representations, such as YAML, JSON, CSV

• Source control, and configuration as code (Ansible, Terraform)

• CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub actions, Jenkins, and Argo CD

• An interest in technical product challenges

• An obsession of solving customer problems, you love actively seeking out customers to understand their problems

• A curious mindset that drives you to ask and answer the 'why.'

• Experience with iterative (agile) and/or lean design and development

Working with us:  

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.    

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we're driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.   

Here, you'll thrive. You'll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We're hiring engineers from across Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.   

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today 

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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