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Chief Engineer in Australia

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Full time
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Australia
11/01/2026
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Sydney

Responsibilities

Set the engineering vision, technical roadmap, and long-term architectural direction for critical platforms, systems, and services.
Lead large-scale platform modernisation across legacy, cloud, API, microservices, and service-domain architectures.
Improve secure design, delivery, observability, reliability, resilience, developer experience, controls, and production readiness.
Partner with Product, Architecture, Risk, and Delivery leaders to balance engineering quality, customer impact, delivery pace, and operational risk.
Identify and apply AI, GenAI, and emerging technologies to improve engineering, colleague, and customer experiences.
Provide technical direction and guardrails to engineering teams and mentor the next generation of engineering leaders.

Requirements

Deep technical credibility and architectural judgment gained in large-scale, complex engineering environments.
Demonstrated experience transforming complex technology landscapes and shaping modern architectures across cloud, APIs, services, platforms, and SaaS ecosystems.
Practical experience applying AI, GenAI, and emerging technologies to engineering, colleague, or customer outcomes.
Strong standards for engineering excellence across secure design, CI/CD, observability, resilience, reliability, controls, and operational readiness.
Technical breadth spanning architecture, platforms, infrastructure, software, data, strategic technology direction, and code-level detail.
Ability to influence engineering thinking at scale, make difficult technical decisions, and grow technical leaders and engineering capability.

Benefits

Inclusive and respectful workplace with accessibility support and workplace adjustments available.
Applications welcomed from people of all backgrounds, with particular commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Advertising end date: 13/11/2026.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is an ASX-listed bank headquartered in Sydney that provides retail, business, and institutional banking, payments, and wealth services across Australia. Its offerings include transaction and savings accounts, home and business lending, cards, merchant services, digi...

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