Chief Engineer

CommBank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank’s Economic Crime Engineering team seeks a Chief Engineer to shape the technical direction, architecture and standards for a strategic portfolio of platforms. You will modernise technology, accelerate delivery and turn complex data into actionable intelligence.

You will help deliver safer, more resilient outcomes for customers and communities, guiding investments in investigation, analytics and agentic capabilities at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• Experience leading architecture for enterprise-scale platforms.
• Designs cloud-native solutions using AWS, containers, serverless, IaC.
• Knowledge of data governance, privacy and observability.
• Strong DevSecOps practices and automated testing.
• Proven ability to lead large engineering teams and set technical directions.

Responsibilities

• Define tech roadmap and target state for Economic Crime Platforms.
• Lead strategy and delivery of investigation, ML, agentic and analytics platforms.
• Guide development of trusted data products and reusable platform capabilities.
• Champion cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs and infrastructure as code.
• Embed security, data quality, privacy and risk management across the lifecycle.
• Strengthen engineering through DevSecOps, DataOps and reliable delivery.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to translate needs into outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and uplift engineering capability across the platform.

Skills

Enterprise-scale platforms

Cloud-native

Data governance

DevSecOps

Architecture leadership

Job description

• Shape the technical strategy, architecture and delivery of platforms that help protect customers from financial crime.
• Lead modernisation across investigation, analytics, machine learning and agentic capabilities in a complex technology environment.
• Influence engineering at enterprise scale through cloud-native architecture, automation, data products and world-class engineering practices.

• Shape the technical strategy, architecture and delivery of platforms that help protect customers from financial crime.
• Lead modernisation across investigation, analytics, machine learning and agentic capabilities in a complex technology environment.
• Influence engineering at enterprise scale through cloud-native architecture, automation, data products and world-class engineering practices.

Do Work That Matters

At CommBank, technology plays a critical role in safeguarding customers and the wider community. Group Security brings together cyber security, resilience, fraud technology and operations, protective security and cyber defence to help secure the Bank, protect customers and strengthen our ability to respond to emerging threats.

As Chief Engineer, Economic Crime Platforms, you will shape the technical direction, target-state architecture and engineering standards for a strategic portfolio of platforms. Your work will help modernise and simplify our technology, improve delivery speed and enable teams to turn complex data and signals into actionable intelligence.

Bring your ambition and technical leadership to a role where you can grow, belong and shape what’s next while helping deliver safer, more resilient outcomes for customers and communities.

See yourself in our team

The Economic Crime Engineering team delivers the platforms, architecture and engineering capabilities that support the Bank’s ability to identify, assess and respond to financial crime and fraud threats. The team partners across engineering, data, analytics, risk, security and business functions to build scalable, secure and resilient solutions.

In this influential technical leadership role, you will:

• Define the technology roadmap, target-state architecture and engineering guardrails for Economic Crime Platforms.
• Lead the strategy, architecture and delivery of investigation, machine learning, agentic and analytics platforms.
• Guide the development of trusted data products, engineering intelligence and reusable platform capabilities.
• Champion cloud-native architecture, microservices, application programming interfaces, automation and infrastructure as code.
• Embed security, data quality, privacy, lineage, observability and risk management throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Strengthen engineering excellence through DevSecOps, DataOps, automated testing, continuous delivery and reliability practices.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Technology, Architecture, Risk, Security and Service Management to translate complex needs into practical outcomes.
• Mentor engineers, guide complex technical decisions and uplift engineering capability across the platform.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

You are an accomplished engineering leader who combines deep technical expertise with sound architectural judgement and enterprise influence. You can create clarity in complex environments, connect technology decisions to customer and risk outcomes, and bring people together around a practical technical direction.

Experience across several of the following areas will help you succeed:

• Leading the architecture and delivery of complex, enterprise-scale engineering or data platforms.
• Designing cloud-native solutions using AWS, containers, serverless technologies and infrastructure as code.
• Applying modern data architecture patterns such as lakehouse platforms, data mesh and domain-aligned data products.
• Delivering reliable ingestion, integration, application programming interface, workflow or decision-engine capabilities.
• Embedding secure engineering, data governance, privacy, observability and operational resilience within regulated environments.
• Enabling machine learning, automation, generative artificial intelligence or agentic use cases through trusted platform capabilities.
• Influencing senior stakeholders and translating business, risk and technology priorities into executable engineering strategies.
• Coaching technical leaders and building collaborative, inclusive engineering cultures.

Working with us:

At CommBank, we're committed to creating an accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace. If you require support or adjustments, please let us know. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and we're particularly committed to making a positive difference for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples. For support please contact 1800 989 ***.

We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.