Engineering Senior Manager

cba; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank is seeking an Engineering Senior Manager to lead the design, build, and evolution of a greenfield, modern engineering platform and backend services. You will drive cloud-native solutions, Java-based distributed systems and APIs, while fostering a high-performing engineering culture.

The role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and the ability to translate business objectives into scalable technology roadmaps under EBB Technology.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience at engineering scale with cloud-native platforms.
• Strong technical depth in Java-based backend systems and APIs.
• Experience enabling secure, scalable, and maintainable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead and inspire a diverse team of engineers with a culture of empowerment and continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop engineers through mentoring and feedback.
• Champion engineering practice standards and scalable delivery across the domain and organization.
• Provide technical and architectural leadership for cloud-native platforms and distributed systems, promoting scalability, resilience and security.
• Embed engineering excellence through security-by-design, observability, and debt management.
• Own delivery outcomes, translate business goals into technology roadmaps and manage dependencies.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Data, Security, Operations and stakeholders to remove blockers and communicate strategy.
• Participate in On-Call rosters to ensure reliable service delivery.

Skills

Java backend

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

Distributed systems

People leadership

Job description

Organization: At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people's financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title: Engineering Senior Manager

Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team:

Business Banking - EBB We’re building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia's future economy. CommBank is recognised as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Our Software team are the brains behind Australia's number one banking app, Netbank, Cardless Cash, Comm Sec Pocket and Spend Tracker. We go beyond a passion for web and mobile development, creating reliable APIs at a unique scale in Australia. And you could be a part of that journey.

Impact & Contribution:

The CBA technology unit delivers the best digital banking services to Commonwealth Bank customers and to do so is responsible for digital delivery, group data and analytics, technology and technology infrastructure, cyber, fraud, physical security and business resilience for all divisions across CBA. It is also dedicated to delivering the best workplace technology experience for our over 53.000 people across CBA and focused on providing the latest tools, technology, and resources to enhance the way we work together and empower our people to achieve more for our customers.

We are looking for an Engineering Senior Manager (Platform, Cloud & Backend Engineering) to lead the design, build and evolution of a greenfield, modern engineering platform and associated backend services. This role is suited to an engineering leader with strong technical depth across cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, distributed systems and modern Java-based backend architecture, combined with strong people leadership and delivery capability.

The primary technical emphasis of the role is Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, Platform Engineering and Java-based distributed systems. A secondary area of capability is Data Engineering, particularly around event-driven architectures, streaming, operational data flows and integration with modern analytical platforms.

The successful candidate will play a critical role in establishing the technical foundations, engineering practices, platform capabilities and team culture for a new technology landscape. The role will involve significantly more greenfield engineering than maintenance of legacy technologies.

This role will report into the Engineering Executive Manager under EBB Technology.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Build, lead and inspire an engaged, diverse team of Engineers, creating a culture of empowerment, autonomy, psychological safety, constructive challenge and continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop Engineers through personalised feedback, mentoring and peer-to-peer learning, understanding individual skill sets and enabling ongoing career and capability growth.
• Champion Engineering Practice standards and consistent ways of working across the domain and CBA, aligned with industry standards, while empowering teams to manage their work, resolve technical issues and continuously improve engineering quality.
• Provide strong technical and architectural leadership for a modern, cloud-native technology landscape, including Java-based backend platforms, APIs, services and distributed systems, establishing architecture principles that promote scalability, resilience, security, maintainability and developer productivity.
• Embed engineering excellence into delivery through security-by-design, observability, appropriate SLI/SLO/SLA practices, effective operational data flows, code reviews, refactoring and proactive management of technical debt and technology lifecycle.
• Own delivery outcomes across engineering teams, translating business objectives into executable technology roadmaps and proactively managing dependencies, technical constraints, engineering risks and platform evolution.
• Partner effectively with Product, Architecture, Data, Security, Operations, senior management and business stakeholders to remove blockers, enable execution and clearly communicate technology strategy, architectural decisions, trade-offs, delivery progress, risks and investment needs.
• Participate in On-Call rosters from time to time, taking ownership of critical issue resolution and supporting the reliable and seam