Payments Tech Leader — Cloud, AI & Real-Time Data

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 210,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Payments Channels & Reporting engineering across multiple squads in Sydney/Melbourne. You will shape technical strategy, uplift engineering excellence and modernise critical customer-facing platforms that support Australia’s payment services.

You'll drive cloud-native, event-driven architectures, foster AI-assisted delivery and build high-performing teams across locations, promoting ownership and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading engineering teams across multiple squads, platforms or technology domains.
• Strong technical background in cloud-native engineering, distributed systems and modern software architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering strategy and delivery across payment reporting, data feeds and customer reporting platforms.
• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams across multiple squads and locations.
• Drive modernisation from legacy and vendor platforms to cloud-native, event-driven architectures.
• Champion engineering excellence across architecture, security, reliability and operational resilience.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Risk, Cyber Security and broader Payments teams to deliver customer outcomes.
• Influence technical direction across distributed systems, data engineering and real-time processing platforms.
• Embed AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery quality, speed and developer productivity.
• Create a culture of ownership, innovation, inclusion and continuous improvement.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud-native engineering

Distributed systems

AWS

Event-driven architectures

DevSecOps

AI-assisted software delivery

Stakeholder influence

Tools

AWS

Job description

Commonwealth Bank seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Payments Channels & Reporting engineering across multiple squads in Sydney/Melbourne. You will shape technical strategy, uplift engineering excellence and modernise critical customer-facing platforms that support Australia’s payment services.

You'll drive cloud-native, event-driven architectures, foster AI-assisted delivery and build high-performing teams across locations, promoting ownership and continuous improvement.