The Role
Lead and develop engineering managers and teams for database and DevSecOps enablement. Set technical direction, ensure platform reliability, security, migration of on‑prem databases to AWS, governance, and delivery outcomes while partnering with product, risk, and executive stakeholders.
Summary Generated by Built In
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 - Database Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park Business & Team: CTO - Database TeamImpact & Contribution: Senior Engineering Manager – Database and DevSecOps enablement Crew. Accountable for leading engineering teams, developing engineering talent, driving technical strategy, and delivering business outcomes through technology. Roles & Responsibilities:
Essential Skills:Advertising End Date: 24/09/2026
- Lead, coach and develop Engineering Managers, Chapter Leads, and engineers.
- Drive performance, career development, succession planning, and engagement.
- Foster a culture of psychological safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
- Build and maintain diverse, high-performing teams.
- Set technical direction and engineering standards.
- Ensure high-quality software, platform reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence.
- Guide architectural decisions and resolution of complex technical challenges.
- Promote automation, engineering productivity, and reduction of technical debt.
- Own delivery outcomes across multiple teams or domains.
- Align engineering priorities with business strategy and customer outcomes.
- Manage risks, dependencies, and operational resilience.
- Drive predictable execution and continuous improvement of engineering practices.
- Partner with Product Owners, business leaders, architects, risk teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Communicate strategy, priorities, risks, and delivery progress effectively.
- Influence decisions across organisational boundaries.
- Ensure compliance with engineering, security, operational risk, and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain appropriate controls and governance frameworks.
- Champion better risk outcomes and operational resilience.
Essential Skills:
- Minimum 12-15 Years of experience across DB, Infrastructure and solutions
- Strategic thinking and organisational leadership
- People leadership and coaching
- Software/platform engineering expertise
- Engineering governance and risk management
- Architecture and technical design oversight
- Financial and business acumen
- Change leadership and transformation delivery
- AI and data literacy
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Good understanding of AWS RDS, Oracle, NoSQL DB, and experience in migrating DB from on prim to AWS.
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Skills Required
- Minimum 12-15 years of experience across databases, infrastructure and solutions
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering (Computer Science/Information Technology)
- Strong people leadership, coaching, performance and succession planning experience
- Experience setting technical direction, architecture and technical design oversight
- Software/platform engineering expertise and experience driving engineering productivity
- Engineering governance, risk management and compliance experience
- Experience with AWS RDS, Oracle, and NoSQL databases
- Experience migrating databases from on-premises to AWS
- Change leadership and transformation delivery experience
- AI and data literacy
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including partnering with product, risk and executive stakeholders
- Financial and business acumen
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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The Company
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.
