• Job Description

  Req#: REQ243031

  • Utilise your deep skills and experience and to grow your experience across a broad range of technologies

  • We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking

  • Together we can build simpler and better solutions

  Your Impact

  As Chief Engineer, you will shape the technical vision and engineering standards behind our next-generation Customer Data platforms- a foundational capability that enables intelligent, real-time, and personalised experiences for millions of customers. You’ll lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-based data and AI platforms.

  What You’ll Do

  • Architect and evolve a modern, cloud-native data platform that supports real-time data streaming, advanced analytics, and AI-driven personalisation.

  • Drive engineering excellence across the platform, embedding best practices in software development, CI/CD, observability, and secure-by-design principles.

  • Lead the development of reusable platform capabilities that accelerate delivery for our engineers and product teams.

  • Collaborate across domains to ensure the platform supports customer intelligence, financial crime detection, and enterprise-wide decisioning.

  • Mentor and inspire engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, technical mastery, and continuous improvement.

  What You Bring

  • Deep expertise in software engineering and platform architecture, with a strong track record of delivering large-scale, cloud-native data platforms.

  • Proven leadership in building and scaling CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and secure deployment practices.

  • Experience designing systems that support real-time data ingestion, transformation, and activation across diverse use cases.

  • A strategic mindset with the ability to influence technical direction, modernise legacy systems, and drive platform adoption across teams.

  • Strong communication and mentoring skills, with a passion for growing diverse, high-performing engineering communities.

  Working with us

  Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.

  We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

  Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

  If this sounds like you, apply now!

  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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  Advertising End Date: 16/08/2025

• About the company

  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, or CommBank, is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom.

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