•  You are passionate about translating business strategy into technical strategy 

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

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation  

Do work that matters  

The CBA technology unit delivers the best digital banking services to Commonwealth Bank customers and to do so is responsible for digital delivery, group data and analytics, technology, and technology infrastructure, cyber, fraud, physical security, and business resilience for all divisions across CBA. 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. 

CommBank is recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps.   Here you’ll be enhancing the digital experience for more than 15 million customers across Australia. Work with a talented team dedicated to excellence and innovation.  

See yourself in our team 

You are a highly seasoned Technology Leader who will lead our technological evolution within the Deposits & Transactions Crew. As the Crew Tech Lead (CTL), you’ll define technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment to tech strategy, reference architecture, enterprise data standards, application simplification and modernisation agendas. You love to drive brilliant customer outcomes whilst also balancing excellence in engineering standards. You have deep domain interest or experience across deposits, account lifecycles and transaction processing and a strong grounding in Core Banking and Everyday Business Banking. 

You’ll lead a large multi-disciplinary engineering organisation, own vendor commercial outcomes, and partner with Product, Data, Security and Core Banking to deliver resilient services at scale. 

You’ll translate business strategy into technical strategy, helping business leaders understand technology concerns by working at the forefront of all technology decisions and ensure performance and availability of technology. You’ll be the expert in the crew’s tech landscape with a clear vision on trends and capabilities to create competitive advantage; ensure IT risks, technical debt and the associated impacts are understood and actively managed. 

Our CTLs are technology leaders that love to build and lead high performing teams and chapters, and work with our business executives to drive enduring value for our customers. They are curious, life-long learners who serve as connectors. You will work to facilitate open communication and establish meaningful professional relationships between individuals and teams to get great outcomes for our organisation, our customers, and the community. 

We’re interested in hearing from people who 

As a team we’re constantly striving to be the best, pushing the boundaries to provide an unrivalled, personalised user experience across every product. Our diverse teams are dedicated to learning, sharing knowledge and continuous improvement. Innovation, passion and creativity shape our culture. We are looking for an experienced leader who will:

• Lead the technology strategy and delivery for the Deposits & Transactions Crew, with ownership for the crew’s systems, services and technical roadmap.  

• Define and deliver the crew’s AI strategy — champion responsible adoption of AI across the Deposits & Transactions landscape.  

• Ensure alignment between the crew’s technical roadmap and CBA’s enterprise reference architecture, data strategy and security/compliance requirements.  

• Own operational performance and availability for the crew’s assets (SLAs, observability, capacity, runbook maturity and incident response).  

• Lead supplier selection, vendor/partner engagements and contracts for strategic supplier-managed products/services — ensuring commercial delivery and risk management.  

• Work closely with Product, Architecture, Security, Data, Risk, and Business stakeholders to prioritise work, manage dependencies, and deliver value.  

• Leading a large engineering organisation, building and growing engineering capability and chapters across the crew — hire, retain and develop top engineering talent.  

• Drive continuous improvement of engineering practices (AI, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, SRE practices) and reduce technical debt.  

Skills and experience 

• We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team; 

• Experience leading large engineering including virtual, teams in a scaled agile environment 

• Experience working with senior executives and stakeholders 

• Experience in leading a DevSecOps culture and operating model; Background in Full-cycle Engineering 

• Experience leading Engineering teams who work with the following technologies - .Net, Next.js, React, AWS , API's (REST & GraphQL) 

• Highly developed Leadership, people and communications skills; sound financial control and reporting skills 

• Grounded understanding in AWS or Azure Cloud architecture and integration, demonstrating experience in deploying, optimising and managing cloud-based solutions 

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.