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Role Title – Engineering Manager
Business Unit– Corp Tech
Location- Bangalore- Manyata tech Park
Key Skills
- 10+ years of experience designing, architecting and developing scalable, enterprise platforms and applications
- Proficient in the following AWS services with hands on experience: EC2, Lambda, DDB and S3
- Proficient in at least one of the 2 tech stacks: TypeScript/Node.js or C#/.Net
- Hands-on engineering manager that can lead software engineers in building cloud scalable platforms
- Experience designing APIs and service contracts
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and IaC pipelines
- Distributed systems and Microservices
- Exposure to AWS services like Kinesis, Firehose, Cloud watch, Aurora, Step Functions, CDK, Cloud Formation
Key responsibilities
- To succeed in this role, you have demonstrated experience in leading high-performing cross-functional engineering teams with a solid technical background
- Drives a true DevSecOps mindset, where engineering owns what they build and truly value customer feedback.
- Lead, mentor, and guide a team of Typescript/.Net and Cloud engineers in designing, developing, testing, and deploying enterprise applications
- · Provide technical direction on solution design, code quality, and system performance.
- Drive the development of robust, high-performance, scalable applications using modern technologies
- Design and implement complex software systems, ensuring security, scalability, and maintainability
- Able to work hands-on building applications and pipelines
- you will be a strong leader with hands on experience delivering large, scalable enterprise services, platforms and applications built on AWS cloud native technologies.
- You will bring 10+ years of experience solving complex technical challenges, architecting highly available, resilient, responsive and scalable solutions using the well established industry standards.
- You will lead a team of engineers and orchestrate the engineering efforts towards specific deliverables and goals.
- In this role you will work closely with the Principle Engineers and Chief Engineer while creating, presenting, evolving, validating and executing your design.
- You will be a hands-on engineer yourself delivering key components while overlooking your team members' deliverables.
- You will possess and showcase in-depth knowledge of Database design, implementation, performance and integration with working knowledge of large scale RDBMS like Aurora and NOSQL like DDB
AI & Intelligent Automation
As part of a modern workflow platform, we are progressively introducing AI-assisted capabilities to improve productivity, decisioning, and system intelligence. As a Staff Engineer you will help shape how AI is applied responsibly and pragmatically across the platform and have the following responsibilities
- Design and integrate AI-assisted features into workflow and platform services, such as:
- Workflow and rules inference from structured and semi-structured inputs
- Intelligent routing, classification, and recommendations within workflows
- AI-assisted validation, schema evolution, and decision support
- Partner with platform and security teams to ensure safe, explainable, and compliant AI usage.`
- Define architectural patterns for:
- Calling LLMs or AI services from long-running workflows
- Handling retries, fallbacks, and determinism in AI-driven steps
- Versioning and auditing AI-influenced decisions
Good-to-Have
- Knowledge on any Workflow orchestration platform. Preferably Pega but any workflow is good
- Experience with Camunda, Temporal, or similar BPMN-based systems
- Experience building low-code / metadata-driven platforms
- Background in financial services or regulated environments
- Experience designing workflows
- Exposure to rules engines (Drools or equivalent)
Education Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience designing, architecting, and developing scalable enterprise platforms and applications
- Hands-on experience leading software engineers and cloud engineers
- Proficiency with AWS services including EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, and S3
- Proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js or C# and .NET
- Experience designing APIs and service contracts
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code pipelines
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices
- Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable, maintainable software systems
- Experience with database design, implementation, performance, and integration
- Working knowledge of relational databases such as Aurora and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with additional AWS services such as Kinesis, Firehose, CloudWatch, Step Functions, CDK, or CloudFormation
- Knowledge of workflow orchestration platforms, preferably Pega
- Experience with Camunda, Temporal, or similar BPMN-based systems
- Experience building low-code or metadata-driven platforms
- Background in financial services or regulated environments
- Experience designing workflows
- Exposure to rules engines such as Drools or equivalent
- Experience designing or integrating AI-assisted workflow and platform features
Commonwealth Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Commonwealth Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Commonwealth Bank.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The bank offers additional Life Leave, the option to purchase up to four extra weeks, pet leave, and paid volunteering leave alongside flexible-working options. Public materials indicate these leave features compare well within Australian banking.
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Parental & Family Support — Permanent employees can access up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave, and superannuation is paid for up to 34 weeks of unpaid parental leave. These provisions extend support for new parents beyond standard settings.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Access includes CBHS Health Fund, Fitness Passport, a 24/7 wellbeing platform with telehealth, an Employee Assistance Program, and employer‑paid income protection for up to two years, alongside staff banking perks and share plans. This combination provides day‑to‑day value across health, protection, and financial perks.
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