• Job Description

  Req#: REQ196239

  Executive Manager (Group Practice Lead) - Quality Engineering and Testing

  • You are a Technology Leader who’s passionate about building and leading a world-class engineering function
  • We are the Australia’s largest fin-tech scaling-up with an engineering first mindset
  • Together we will build tomorrow's bank today using innovative technology!

  Do work that matters

  Our Group Practice Leads are technology leaders that love to build and lead high performing engineering teams, working with the business executives to drive enduring value for our customers. They are curious, life-long learners who serve as connectors.

  You will be the empowering leader that never shies away from a constructive challenge whilst driving meaningful change by shifting mindsets and ways of working, by being the change. You will be the catalyst in driving ‘better lived experiences for engineering teams’!

  
  We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in 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 in the role you’re interested in.

  See yourself in our team

  We are building a world-class engineering capability with an engineering-led approach to make strategic choices that will help us deliver better, simpler, faster and reliable outcomes to our customers. We are a complex, evolving and changing organisation that constantly thrives to level-up with technological shifts in the market!

  As our Group Practice Lead Quality Engineering and Testwithin the CIO for Technology team, you will indirectly lead a cohort of large sized Quality Engineers, cultivating a growth mindset and supporting creative and innovative ways of working. You will support Engineering Managers and Chapter Leads to build, lead and inspire engaged teams of Engineers by role modelling a culture of engineering empowerment, autonomy, psychological safety and constructive challenge. You will be the connector and enabler of cultural transformation that leads technical innovations on this journey!
  
  We are seeking people who are:

  • Naturally talented to balance culture, people, and technology transformation
  • Able to show tenacity, persistence and personal resilience during time of change
  • Able to demonstrable experience with influencing and driving outcomes at scale
  • Driven by solutions not problems when operating with an Agility mindset
  • Adept in establishing excellent relationships across the Engineering Community
  • Passionate about inspiring multiple crews and chapters to collaborate and co-create outcomes by consistently encouraging a culture of sharing and learning

  We are also open to people who can:

  • Support the cultural changes needed to shift our Quality Engineering practice towards automation, and increasingly shift towards full-stack engineering mindset to reimagine core ways of delivering quality-engineering outcomes!
  • Collaborate with Crew Leads to set KPI/KRAs/OKRs that enable crews to deliver on the strategy for their respective domains, incorporating a Dev-test led approach
  • Support leaders to influence change that increases the flow of valuable engineering outcomes.
  • Define roadmaps to promote and embed a positive engineering culture, ensuring alignment at practice level.

  Tech skills:

  We use a broad range of innovative tools, scalable platforms and process frameworks as a technology driven banking organization. We do not expect you to know them all but deep experience or exposure in leading largely diverse group of engineering crews in a similar environment will set you up for success in this role!

  • People management and executive stakeholder engagement skills, with previous experience in playing leadership roles within engineering.
  • Expertise in leading and driving team of engineers that work with diversified skillset within Quality engineering.

  Working with us:

  Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

  Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all of 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 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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  Advertising End Date: 11/10/2023

• 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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