Engineering Excellence Lead — Risk & Finance

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

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank seeks a Chief Engineer to lead engineering excellence and uplift capability across the Risk and Finance Technology portfolio. This hands-on leadership role partners with engineers and senior tech leaders to solve complex problems and deliver high‑quality technology outcomes.

The role collaborates with Crew Technology Leads to drive modernisation, champion DevSecOps, automation, reliability and secure practices across multiple crews.

Qualifications

• Experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience working with modern software delivery practices, secure design, CI/CD and engineering quality at scale.
• Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, making pragmatic trade-offs and communicating technical decisions clearly.
• Curious about the role AI, GenAI and Agentic platforms can play in improving colleague and customer experiences.
• The technical depth to work directly with engineers, challenge designs, break down problems and guide implementation.
• Experience operating in complex or regulated environments and balancing modernisation with risk, control and operational requirements.
• Knowledge of vendor application ecosystems and automation of the engineering components surrounding those platforms.
• Experience influencing enterprise data strategy from the perspective of business and technology consumers.
• Experience in Risk, Finance, banking or financial services technology.
• Experience leading engineering transformation across multiple teams or crews.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering excellence and modernisation agenda across Risk and Finance Technology.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and coaching to engineers and engineering leaders across multiple crews.
• Establish and uplift engineering standards, practices and ways of working to improve quality and delivery outcomes.
• Lead the reduction of technical debt and support the modernisation of legacy platforms and applications.
• Drive engineering excellence across software development, platform engineering, testing, automation, observability and operational resilience.
• Champion DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation and contemporary engineering practices.
• Guide teams through complex technical decisions and implementation challenges across applications, integration and data platforms.
• Drive the responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering and development productivity tooling.
• Partner with data office teams to improve data accessibility and readiness for analytics and AI use cases.
• Build engineering capability through mentoring and communities of practice.
• Translate complex technical issues into clear risks, trade-offs and outcomes for senior stakeholders.

Skills

Engineering leadership

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Automation

Observability

Secure engineering

AI-assisted engineering

Data platform alignment

Job description

Commonwealth Bank seeks a Chief Engineer to lead engineering excellence and uplift capability across the Risk and Finance Technology portfolio. This hands-on leadership role partners with engineers and senior tech leaders to solve complex problems and deliver high‑quality technology outcomes.

The role collaborates with Crew Technology Leads to drive modernisation, champion DevSecOps, automation, reliability and secure practices across multiple crews.