Engineering Senior Manager

This is a Engineering Senior Manager role with Commonwealth Bank based in Sydney, NSW, AU
== Commonwealth Bank ==

Role Seniority - senior

More about the Engineering Senior Manager role at Commonwealth Bank

• You are a hands‑on engineering leader who enables teams to deliver meaningful outcomes

• We are a team committed to modernisation, reliability, and continuous improvement

• Together we can modernise systems and transform financial services

About the Team

The Commsee Crew is responsible for the development, maintenance, and enhancement of the CommSee platform, which is a core staff-facing system used by CBA’s Retail and SME frontline and back-office personnel.

The platform supports CBA’s digital-first strategy, aiming to deliver modern, intuitive, and best-in-class technology for staff to serve customers efficiently.

The team works on evolving digital and assisted technology, ensuring the platform is secure, scalable, and aligned with business needs

Do work that matters

You’ll be part of CommSee platform team responsible for building the next generation lightweight web based staff portal. This is aligned to CBA's digital-first strategy, serving as the single pane of glass for Retail and SME frontline and Backoffice personnel.

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Leading the design, delivery and operations of world class software

• Coordinating dependencies across multiple teams and unblocking delivery as required

• Building a high performing team through leadership, mentoring, and coaching engineers

• Uplifting and adopting group software development practices and fostering a culture of AI powered engineering across our domain

• The full software development lifecycle with a focus on excellent design and architecture, web, API, CI/CD, AI, cloud (preferably AWS), automated testing, infrastructure cloud pipelines, security, resilience and observability

• Quality assurance through pair programming, code review and automated pipeline release management

We’re interested in hearing from people who possess the following (Technical Skills):

• Strong architecture and design skills

• Experience leading engineers

• AI powered engineering and agentic AI for enhanced customer experiences

• Developing 3-tier application both on-premises and on cloud covering Frontend, Backend and Databases

• Backend: .NET Core, C# is essential

• At least one scripting/programming language (i.e. TypeScript, Python, PowerShell)

• Frontend: React, Typescript, NextJS (desirable)

• Exposure and hands on knowledge working with different AWS services

• Microservices design and implementation of highly scalable APIs

• CI/CD tools (i.e. GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus)

• Automated Quality Engineering and Testing (Unit Testing, Contract testing, Integration Testing, Functional/Regression Testing)

• DevOps experience, especially Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation (desirable), SST, or similar tools

• Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation (desirable)

• Database: SQL and NoSQL experience would be advantageous

Beneficial competencies

• Configuration Management

• Observability tools (i.e. obstack, observe, prometheus etc).

• Application Security ​

• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Working with us

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their 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 in the role you’re interested in. 

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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Before we jump into the responsibilities of the role. No matter what you come in knowing, you’ll be learning new things all the time and the Commonwealth Bank team will be there to support your growth.

🟢 Please consider applying even if you don't meet 100% of what’s outlined 🟢

Key Responsibilities

• 🚀 Leading the design, delivery and operations of world class software
• 🔗 Coordinating dependencies across multiple teams and unblocking delivery as required
• 🌱 Building a high performing team through leadership, mentoring, and coaching engineers

Key Strengths

• 🏗️ Strong architecture and design skills
• 👥 Experience leading engineers
• 🤖 AI powered engineering and agentic AI for enhanced customer experiences
• ⚙️ Configuration Management
• 🔍 Observability tools (i.e. obstack, observe, prometheus etc)
• 🐳 Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

A Final Note: This is a role with Commonwealth Bank not with Hatch.