Crew Lead - Engineering Data

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking an experienced engineering leader to oversee the Engineering Data Crew, translating strategy into an outcome-based roadmap and building an inclusive, high-performing team. You will enable technology decisions with trusted data products and scalable capabilities.

You will guide investment across data enablement, governance, and delivery, partnering with product owners and engineers to deliver secure, resilient data services at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading multi-team engineering, data or platform organisations in a large, regulated environment.
• Proven track record coaching leaders and building high-performing, inclusive teams.
• Experience delivering enterprise data products, engineering platforms or major technology transformations.
• Knowledge of modern engineering practices including DataOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD and observability.
• Understanding of cloud-native architecture, preferably AWS, with governance and security focus.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and balance customer value, risk, cost and time.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate the crew’s purpose, strategy, objectives and roadmap.
• Lead multiple squads and senior leaders with clear accountability and a culture of improvement.
• Own crew-level delivery commitments, priorities, dependencies and trade-offs.
• Partner with Product Owners and engineers to deliver secure, observable data products.
• Build capability across data, software and platform engineering and career development.
• Strengthen data quality, governance and stewardship with risk and security teams.
• Manage financial, risk and lifecycle decisions including vendor performance.
• Identify opportunities to scale AI, automation and advanced analytics with governed data.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Multi-squad leadership

Data products

Cloud architecture

AWS expertise

Stakeholder management

Job description

• Lead a multi-squad engineering organisation delivering trusted data products and specialist capabilities.
• Shape strategy, grow engineering leaders and influence technology outcomes across CommBank.
• Advance modern data, cloud, automation and AI capabilities at enterprise scale.
• Bring your ambition and we’ll help you grow, belong and shape what’s next in engineering data.

• Lead a multi-squad engineering organisation delivering trusted data products and specialist capabilities.
• Shape strategy, grow engineering leaders and influence technology outcomes across CommBank.
• Advance modern data, cloud, automation and AI capabilities at enterprise scale.
• Bring your ambition and we’ll help you grow, belong and shape what’s next in engineering data.

Do work that matters

Engineering data is a strategic asset that helps CommBank improve software delivery, operational resilience, technology risk management, service health, security automation and developer experience.

As Crew Lead, Engineering Data, you’ll lead the people, delivery and technology outcomes of the Engineering Data Crew within Engineering Platform. You’ll translate strategy into a clear, outcome-based roadmap and create an inclusive, high-performing engineering organisation. Your work will enable Technology teams to make safer, simpler and faster decisions using trusted, reusable data products, insights, standards and patterns.

You’ll combine strong people leadership with engineering judgement and product-oriented execution, guiding investment and delivery across data enablement, control and risk insights, delivery intelligence and test data tooling.

See yourself in our team

Be part of the team driving enterprise-wide transformation at CommBank. Corporate Technology delivers the modern platforms, enterprise data and critical systems that power the bank’s Operations and Corporate functions. You’ll collaborate across diverse teams, solve complex technology challenges and help shape the future of one of Australia’s leading organisations.

In this role, you will:

• Set and communicate the crew’s purpose, strategy, objectives and roadmap, connecting customer needs with measurable technology and business outcomes.
• Lead multiple squads and senior leaders, creating clear accountability, alignment, autonomy, psychological safety and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Own crew-level delivery commitments, priorities, dependencies and trade-offs, using evidence to guide capacity, sequencing and investment decisions.
• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, the Chief Engineer and Principal Engineers to deliver secure, resilient, observable and maintainable data products and services.
• Build capability across data, software and platform engineering, analytics and product leadership through workforce planning, hiring, coaching, succession and career development.
• Strengthen data quality, metadata, lineage, access, classification and stewardship in partnership with data, risk, security and architecture teams.
• Manage financial, commercial, risk and lifecycle decisions, including vendor performance, operational resilience and the modernisation or retirement of legacy technology.
• Identify opportunities to responsibly scale AI, agents, automation, graphs and advanced analytics using governed engineering data.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

You’re an experienced engineering, data or platform leader who can turn complexity into clear direction and bring people together around meaningful outcomes. You balance strategic leadership with enough technical depth to challenge decisions constructively and build trust across organisational boundaries.

Ideally, you bring:

• Significant experience leading multi-team engineering, data or platform organisations in a large, complex and regulated environment.
• A strong record of coaching leaders, building diverse capability and creating high-performing, inclusive teams.
• Experience delivering enterprise data products, engineering platforms, analytics capabilities or major technology transformations.
• Working knowledge of modern engineering practices, including DataOps, DevSecOps, continuous delivery, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability and full-cycle ownership.
• Practical understanding of cloud-native architecture, preferably AWS, together with data governance, security, privacy, resilience and control obligations.
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and make balanced decisions across customer value, risk, cost, capability and time.

Working with us:

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CommBank is Australia’s leading provider of financial services. With customers at the heart of everything we do, we’re focused on helping people and businesses move forward financially. We are driven to deliver seamless experiences, in smart, innovative ways.

Our 50,000+ people bring their different backgrounds and unique perspectives to our collaborative environment. It’s what makes CommBank a place of opportunity, where your skills can take you in unexpected directions and you can achieve great things.

Ever wondered what it’s like to work at one of Australia’s Most Innovative companies? Hear what our people have to say about #CommBankLife on Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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