Senior Manager Engineering Practice

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Senior Manager Engineering Practice to shape how engineering performance, leadership and capability evolve across a large technology community. You will combine engineering credibility with strategic leadership to define what great looks like and help leaders create opportunities for people to perform, grow and progress.

You’ll lead the vision and ongoing evolution of the Engineering Promotion application, partnering with delivery capability to drive measurable

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background with leadership experience across large tech environments.
• Experience shaping engineering performance, capability, talent or leadership practices at scale.
• Ability to translate data and insights into clear priorities and actions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy for strengthening a high-performance engineering culture and set clearer expectations for performance and leadership.
• Define meaningful performance signals by combining engineering personas and productivity insights.
• Shape what great engineering leadership looks like and identify opportunities to strengthen effectiveness and influence.
• Connect performance and capability insights with engineering career development and progression.
• Lead the vision, product direction and evolution of the Engineering Promotion application and its supporting technology.
• Partner with engineering leaders and skilling teams to strengthen technical capability and mindset across the organisation.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Strategic thinking

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder engagement

Career development

Job description

• Shape engineering performance, leadership and capability across one of Australia’s largest technology environments
• Influence how engineers grow, progress and deliver impact, with the opportunity to set standards at enterprise scale
• Help build world‑class engineering capability as CommBank advances AI‑powered engineering, full‑cycle capability and platforms built through code

Do Work That Matters

The Engineering Practice works across the bank to set standards, share learnings and develop skills for strategically important capabilities. Our ambition is to build world‑class engineering capability with speed, clarity and confidence, creating clear career pathways and consistently high engineering standards.

As Senior Manager Engineering Practice, you’ll play an influential role in shaping how engineering performance, leadership and capability evolve across CommBank. Working across an engineering community of approximately 8,000 people, you’ll combine engineering credibility with strategic leadership to define what great looks like and help our engineering leaders create the conditions for people to perform, grow and progress.

See yourself in our team

This is a strategic engineering leadership role with broad influence across the organisation. You’ll bring together performance insights, engineering capability and leadership judgement to help raise standards, while providing the vision and product leadership for technology that supports engineering progression.

You will:

• Lead the strategy for strengthening a high-performance engineering culture, setting clearer expectations for engineering performance and leadership.
• Define meaningful performance signals by bringing together engineering personas, other engineering insights to inform better leadership decisions.
• Shape what great engineering leadership looks like and identify opportunities to strengthen the effectiveness and influence of engineering leaders.
• Connect performance and capability insights with engineering career development and progression, helping identify talented engineers who may be ready for their next opportunity.
• Lead the vision, product direction and ongoing evolution of the Engineering Promotion application and its supporting technology, working with engineering delivery capability rather than operating primarily as an individual contributor.
• Partner closely with engineering leaders, skilling teams and other stakeholders to strengthen technical capability and engineering mindset across the organisation.

The Practice’s broader approach is centred on hiring for future capability, clarifying engineering skills, enabling transparent career progression and raising engineering standards.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

You’ll bring credible engineering experience alongside the strategic thinking and influence needed to operate across a large, complex technology organisation. You’ll be comfortable moving between engineering, people and performance discussions, translating data and insight into clear priorities and action.

Ideally, you’ll bring:

• A strong engineering background, with experience leading engineering teams and/or meaningful hands‑on technical experience.
• Demonstrated experience shaping engineering performance, capability, talent or leadership practices at scale.
• Strong strategic thinking and the ability to translate a vision into practical priorities, standards and measurable outcomes.
• Confidence working with engineering data and productivity signals, applying sound judgement rather than relying on individual measures in isolation.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing capability, particularly with senior engineering and technology leaders.
• An understanding of engineering career pathways, progression and technical capability development.
• Product and technology leadership capability, with sufficient technical depth to guide the evolution of engineering‑focused applications and tools.
• A continuous‑improvement mindset, balanced with thoughtful risk and cost management.

This capability‑led approach also aligns with CommBank’s current job‑ad guidance, which recommends focusing on transferable capability, avoiding unnecessarily long requirement lists and distinguishing essential capability from desirable experience.

Working with us

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you. Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.