Head of Engineering - Domestic Payments

• You are a experienced and inclusive engineering leader who excels at translating business strategy into technical outcomes
• We are the largest payments operator in the Southern Hemisphere with huge ambition
• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters:
CommBank is recognized as leading the industry in digital, engineering, data and AI with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and focus on innovation. . It is also dedicated to delivering the best workplace technology experience for our over 53,000 people across CBA and focused on providing the latest tools, technology, and resources to enhance the way we work together and empower our people to achieve more for our customers.

Payments Technology & Operations brings together the process, people and technology assets powering the money movement of 40% of the Australian economy through market-leading products, services and digital experiences.

As Head of Engineering for Domestic Payments, you will work closely with the Domestic Payments Crew Lead to deliver exceptional outcomes for our business stakeholders and customers. You are responsible for the technology strategy, engineering and delivery of world-class products, leveraging the best engineering practices to deliver once-in-a-generation transformational change in Payments.

See yourself in our team:
You are a seasoned, dynamic Technology Leader with deep engineering expertise and a passion for delivering transformational technology solutions. You’ll define the technical strategy and reference architecture for the team and then execute against an ambitious technical roadmap to realise the vision. You are motivated to drive brilliant customer outcomes through excellence in modern engineering practices including AI powered engineering. You have a genuine interest in Payments and enable the business strategy to be realised.

You’ll understand the need and approach to achieve exceptionally high availability, delighting our customers through system performance whilst managing technology risks and technology debt buy-down. You’ll be constantly keeping up to date on industry trends and ensuring the team are utilising emerging engineering practices to execute to exceptional quality at a high velocity.

As a technology leader, you will love to build and lead high performing teams and chapters, and work with our business partners to drive enduring value for our customers. You are committed to continuous learning and improvement** and facilitate open communication all in the pursuit of delivering exceptional outcomes for our customers, our colleagues and our community.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Have proven experience as a Technology Leader in defining a vision, shaping and defining a technology strategy and then executing against it.
• Have ability to build strong relationships across the enterprise and influence and align multiple stakeholders and teams to balance the needs of customers, business, and technical teams
• Are passionate engineers, who have led modern digital and cloud technology teams living and breathing a DevSecOps culture.
• Are experienced in defining and delivering technology architecture, solutions and platform design, whilst ensuring the alignment to the technology roadmap
• Embrace AI as a key part of modern engineering practices and utilise this to deliver both efficiency and new customer propositions
• Possess exceptional communication skills including ability to engage across all levels of the organisation from junior developer to Group Executive
• Leads and develops inclusive, high-performing engineering teams, leading a diverse team of over 150 technology professionals across multiple locations with a focus on continuous learning.
• Takes ownership and accountability of the performance and availability of the Crew’s assets including creating a culture that puts risk, reliability and cyber at the heart of design
• Fosters a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Create an exceptional risk culture and deliver industry-leading technology whilst ensuring appropriate risk management strategies are in place.
• Are able to define and execute a workforce strategy and manage the associated financials
• Passionate about delivering exceptional outcomes in a payments environment with knowledge of the payments domain is preferred

Tech Skills:
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks across the domain however skills and knowledge in the following areas will set you up for success in this role:

• Modern engineering practices centred around a DevSecOps culture
• Building and running cloud native, microservice based solutions with specific knowledge of AWS preferred
• AI powered engineering including tools such as GitHub CoPilot, Roo & Cline
• SRE best practices to drive high availability and reliability
• Operating in a mature agile environment with the use of CI/CD and automated release management to enable high velocity value realisation

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

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time 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.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.
 

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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