Engineering Manager

CommBank is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Document Retention & Archiving (DRA) Crew in COO Transformation Technology, where squads design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and resilient content platforms for the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a strong risk mindset by proactively identifying and acting on current and emerging engineering, operational, security, and compliance risks.

• Build, lead, and inspire an inclusive, engaged team of engineers, setting clear expectations and creating a safe environment.

• Coach and develop engineers through regular feedback, career planning, and mentoring.

• Translate business and technology strategy into an executable engineering roadmap and well-managed backlog.

• Provide technical leadership across squads and influence architecture, design, and engineering outcomes.

• Establish consistent engineering standards, reusable platform patterns, automation frameworks, and guardrails.

• Champion cloud-native, platform engineering, and secure-by-design practices across software delivery and operations.

• Build a best-in-class run capability, with clear ownership of reliability, resilience, observability, and disaster recovery.

Requirements

• Significant enterprise software engineering experience, including a proven record of leading high-performing teams.

• Strong working knowledge of modern application development using C#/.NET, Java/J2EE with Spring Boot, or Python.

• Experience governing API design and lifecycle practices including OpenAPI, REST, SOAP, and message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.

• Strong experience leading cloud migration and modernization with depth in AWS.

• Practical understanding of Kubernetes, EKS or AKS, containerized workloads, and Helm.

• Experience establishing CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code using GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or CloudFormation.

• Demonstrated leadership in observability, monitoring, incident management, and resilience engineering.