Chapter Lead (Engineering Manager), Software Engineering
See yourself in our team
Our Software teams are the brains behind Australia’s number one banking app, Netbank, Cardless Cash, CommSec Pocket and Spend Tracker. We go beyond a passion for web and mobile development, creating reliable and highly secured APIs at a unique scale in Australia. And you could be a part of that journey.
Our platforms and frameworks enable outstanding design and simple, intuitive features used by millions of people. We’re constantly striving to be the best in digital, pushing the boundaries to provide an unrivalled, personalised user experience across every product.
Do work that matters
Retail Technology is a centre of excellence within the Retail Banking Digital space and plays an integral part in the purpose and success of CommBank. We are responsible for delivering an exceptional customer experience across all digital touch points.
Within Retail Technology, you’ll be part of Home Buying Technology team which engineer the applications underpinning our retail home lending business. The team is responsible for delivering amazing experiences and exceptional end-to-end capabilities to our customers through the multiple channels such as digital, branch and broker/third party.
As a Chapter Lead (Engineering Manager), you’ll be a hands-on technical lead, providing expert advice relating to technology, people management, hiring, architecture roadmap, leadership guidance in order to drive excellence and ensuring technical delivery meets the engineering standards and practices.
We’re interested in hearing from people who:
- Have hands-on technical expertise in Microsoft tech stack, public cloud as well as understanding of DevSecOps.
- Have the ability to build, lead, and inspire an engaged cross functional team of engineers across multiple disciplines (Software, Quality, Platform etc.) while also fostering an engineering culture of excellence
- Can effectively communicate engineering practice standards and consistent ways of working across squads and CBA that align to global best practice.
- Encourage risk-taking and constructive challenge while growing diverse and inclusive teams
- Can successfully advocate for new technology approaches, with the experience to understand the architectural integration of new software solutions
- Have experience working in DevSecOps Model and can help to drive the adoption for the teams.
Technical Skills:
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these will set you up for success in this team:
- A solid technical foundation in diverse technologies as well as a track record of leading high-performing engineering teams.
- Experience with technologies like: - C#, .Net 6, Web APIs, Kafka, Databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL etc.
- Good understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React or NextJs.
- Good understanding of large-scale distributed systems, Event driven architecture, microservices
- Knowledge & experience of AWS cloud and experience using Cloud native capabilities (preferred)
- Knowledge of DevSecOps best Practices with CI/CD tools, Observability and processes for Software Delivery Lifecycle
- Knowledge of Test Automation frameworks and tools such as NUnit/XUnit, NMock, NSubstitute, SpecFlow, Selenium, Blazemeter/Jmeter, API Contract Testing
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office.
If this sounds like the role for you, then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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What We Do
Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services.
We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances.
