Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Chapter Lead / Senior Engineering Manager (Oracle EPM)

• You are a problem solver with a strong background in software engineering
• We are a growing team within the bank and constantly involved in industry changing solutions
• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading engineering, technology, and innovation

Do work that matters

We are seeking a highly skilled Chapter Lead to join our fast-paced team. As a Chapter Lead, you will also be the Technology lead driving the technical direction in the team. You’ll be providing expert advice relating to technology, solution design and architecture, people leadership and driving excellence in technical delivery as per group engineering practices and standards.

You will bring a perfect blend of people management, technical expertise and will be responsible for shaping the evolution of the chapter through contribution to the technology strategy, quarterly crew planning, prioritise backlog, define delivery roadmap, and determine which problems to invest in solving. You will also play a key role in implementation of best practices and reusable patterns and endorse new designs and patterns for wider usage.

You will work closely with the Product Owner to leverage Oracle EPM to drive performance management. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, exceptional problem-solving skills, and a passion for driving security and IT resilience.

See yourself in our team

You will be part of a Finance Service and Control Crew that is focused on providing the best Finance System technology outcomes that will drive Finance of the Future.

You will be leading the Chapter of Engineers for the Enterprise Performance Management Chapter (EPM). you will actively contribute to the products and services we deliver from architecture, technical design and coding to deployment to operation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, lead, and inspire an engaged team of engineers while also fostering an engineering culture of excellence.
• Lead, develop and operate SaaS services with security by design as a full-cycle engineer
• Effectively communicate engineering practice standards and consistent ways of working across squads and CBA that align to global best practice.
• Promote open communication and creates a safe working environment where our engineers’ voices are heard to achieve great outcomes for our organisation, our customers, and the community.
• Drive operational excellence and supports teams in charge of mission-critical production services with diverse stakeholders and complex dependencies.
• Encourage risk-taking and constructive challenge while growing diverse and inclusive teams.
• Establish new ways of working, successfully advocated for new technology approaches, with the experience to understand the architectural integration of new software Contribute to the strategic engineering goals within own team / platform

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Are curious, life-long learners
• Can Influence the future of the company’s technology estate every day
• Can create a culture focussed on accelerating the adoption of new and emerging technologies

Technical 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;

• Extensive experience in enterprise-level engineering.
• Have a proven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams
• Have strong capability and experience in building operating SaaS solution around Finance such as Oracle EPM, Peoplesoft, SAP Financials etc
• Soft skills: Excellent communication skills. Working experience with Agile methodologies.
• CI/CD: expertise with usage and configuration of fully automated pipelines is useful. This includes GitHub Actions, Artifactory and Azure DevOps.
• DevOps: Familiarity with DevOps-managed environments. Specifically, around observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, Promethius, PagerDuty)
• Test Automation: Unit/Integration/Acceptance/Performance testing experience in API.
• Security: Defence in depth, including identity management, encryption and public cloud security obligations
• Databases: Relational databases (e.g. Postgres / Oracle), as well as data warehousing and No-SQL databases (MongoDB).
• Language orientation: Experience on C#, .NET Framework Core, essential. SOAP/REST APIs, Microservices and containerisation a plus. Node, Python and scripting knowledge useful
• Familiarity in event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ) and orchestration (Apache Camel, Temporal, Mulesoft)

Working with us

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

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.

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

If this sounds like you, apply now!

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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