Head of Engineering, Data and Platforms

CommBank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank seeks an senior engineering leader to drive the Data & Platforms Crew in Sydney. You will own the technical direction, health and delivery of data and market data platforms, leading engineers and shaping the platform roadmap for scale and safety.

You'll champion modern data estates, AI/GenAI adoption, and secure, reliable operations while coordinating vendor relationships and controlling costs.

Qualifications

• Led engineering teams or squads in large, complex environments.
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms and data products.
• Knowledge of data governance, security and risk across data estates.
• Familiarity with AI/GenAI and safe adoption practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineers and squads, set clear expectations and grow capability.
• Own technology roadmap, architecture and long-term health of data platforms.
• Accelerate delivery of reusable data products at scale.
• Drive major tech transformation, modernising legacy estates and migrating consumers.
• Align platforms with enterprise data direction and manage risk.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud data platforms

Snowflake

AWS

Data engineering

Data governance

Technical roadmap

CI/CD & observability

Vendor & SaaS management

AI/GenAI adoption

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

• Lead the engineering teams behind IB&M's data, analytics and AI platforms
• Own the technical direction, health and delivery of critical data and market data platforms
• Build a high-performing, engineering-led crew, based in Sydney

Do work that matters

At CommBank, technology is core to how we build tomorrow's bank today. You'll help shape modern, resilient and trusted platforms that support better experiences for our customers, clients and colleagues.

Our Crew Tech Leads are senior engineering leaders who own lead both the people and the platforms in their crew. They lead engineers, set technical direction and are accountable for delivering outcomes for the business, working at the forefront of some of Australia's largest and most complex technology environments.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the General Manager – Institutional Banking Technology, and partnering with the Crew Lead, you'll lead the engineers, squads and engineering leaders across the Data & Platforms Crew. You'll be accountable for the technical direction, health and delivery of the crew's platforms and data products, and for building a team that delivers at pace, safely.

You’ll do this by:

• Leading, coaching and growing a diverse team of engineering leaders and engineers, setting clear expectations and building capability for the future.
• Owning the technology roadmap, architecture and long-term health of the crew's platforms, spanning our cloud data and analytics platform, market data management, trade surveillance, quantitative analytics and the cloud infrastructure that supports IB&M workloads.
• Accelerating the delivery of trusted, reusable data products that the business and other crews can consume at scale.
• Leading major technology transformation across the crew, simplifying the platform landscape, modernising legacy data estates and safely migrating consumers onto strategic platforms, then decommissioning what is no longer needed.
• Aligning the crew's platforms with Group data and architecture direction, making sound enterprise decisions rather than optimising one domain at the bank's expense.
• Championing safe adoption of AI, GenAI and agentic capabilities, both in the products we build and in how our engineers build them.
• Keeping platforms secure, resilient and well controlled, managing vulnerabilities, vendor and operational risk, and meeting regulatory obligations.
• Managing the crew's technology costs and vendor relationships to deliver value for money.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

Are engineering leaders with a strong technical foundation in data platforms, who have led and grown teams in large, complex environments. You'll bring sound technical judgement, a track record of delivery and the ability to influence across business, product, risk, architecture and the wider technology community. We don't expect you to have done everything below; if you have some of this experience and are keen to grow the rest, we'd love to hear from you.

• Have led engineering teams or squads, ideally including leaders of leaders and distributed teams.
• Have experience with modern cloud data platforms (for example Snowflake, AWS), data engineering, data products or data governance.
• Have some experience modernising or migrating legacy data platforms, bringing consumers along with you.
• Understand financial markets or institutional banking data, such as market data, trading, surveillance or risk, or are keen to learn it quickly.
• Have some experience with how AI, GenAI and agentic platforms can improve colleague and customer experiences, and how to adopt them safely.
• Have some experience integrating and managing vendor and SaaS platforms.
• Value engineering excellence across secure design, CI/CD, automation, observability, reliability, controls and operational risk.
• Are comfortable working across strategy and technical detail, and can hold engineers and vendors to a high standard.
• Care about developing people, building capability and creating an inclusive engineering culture.

Working with us:

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