Commonwealth Bank of Australia

• You are passionate, driven, flexible and collaborative
• You are a leader of high performing engineers, pushing the boundaries of software engineering and IT technology governance
• Together we can rewrite the experience for millions of customers

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 a brighter future for Australia.

Here, you’ll get to turn your passion into reality, working with new technology on state-of-the-art projects to enable a seamless and unrivalled customer experience.

We are seeking a highly skilled Chapter Lead to join our fast-paced team. As a Chapter Lead, you’ll manage a team of Engineers ensuring optimal goal setting, performance, career development and engagement. Advocate the embedding of a positive engineering culture, ensuring adherence to standards and technical quality, and guide complex technical problem solving.

See yourself in our team

As a member of the Corporate Technology division, you will be responsible for the underlying platforms and architecture of the customer domain. With a strong emphasis on cloud native solutions. Lambda data architecture with ingestion and batch processing systems. Managing a team of solution architects, developers and data engineers.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Have the ability to build, lead, and inspire an engaged team of engineers while also fostering an engineering culture of excellence.
• Can contribute to the Bank’s Engineering Management Practice by coaching and mentoring engineers and raising the bar for the discipline across the organization.
• Can 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.
• Can 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 and establish new ways of working, successfully advocated for new technology approaches, with the experience to understand the architectural integration of new software solutions.

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 and have a proven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams
• Language orientation: Experience on C#, .NET Framework Core, essential. SOAP/REST APIs, Microservices and containerisation a plus. Node, Python and scripting knowledge useful
• Soft skills: Excellent communication skills. Working experience with Agile methodologies.
• Cloud: Experience on cloud migrations and deployment, with preference for Azure Cloud, and Power Platform
• 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)

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.

We’re looking for people who truly live our values, Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop you career with us

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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