Engineering Data Crew Lead: Scale Trusted Data Platforms

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

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.