Senior Product Engineering Manager (Multi-Squad, Cloud-Native)

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to unite technical leadership, people leadership and delivery accountability across two to three squads in Sydney. You will shape a high-agency product engineering environment, drive end-to-end ownership from idea to production, and advance modern, cloud-native practices.

You will stay technically engaged while guiding architectural decisions and partner with Product to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple engineering squads or comparable multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong engineering experience in Java or TypeScript, including Node.js and modern front-end frameworks such as React.
• Experience designing, building and operating solutions on AWS.
• Knowledge of microservices, API-driven architectures and container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, resilience and secure engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow high-performing engineering teams, creating an inclusive culture of accountability, curiosity and thoughtful challenge.
• Set technical direction and guide design and architecture decisions across full-stack products and platforms.
• Own delivery across the product lifecycle, supporting teams to build, run and continuously improve the solutions they create.
• Remain technically engaged, contributing to design discussions, architectural decisions and code where your expertise will add value.
• Partner closely with Product to turn complex problems into clear priorities and measurable business outcomes.
• Build scalable, secure and resilient cloud-native solutions using modern engineering practices.
• Strengthen engineering capability through mentoring, practical feedback and clear expectations.
• Support commercial and delivery activities, including statements of work, supplier engagement and the effective use of resources.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Delivery

AWS

Java/TypeScript

React

Microservices

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Node.js

React

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to unite technical leadership, people leadership and delivery accountability across two to three squads in Sydney. You will shape a high-agency product engineering environment, drive end-to-end ownership from idea to production, and advance modern, cloud-native practices.

You will stay technically engaged while guiding architectural decisions and partner with Product to deliver measurable business outcomes.