Engineering Manager

Organization: At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Bangalore

Business & Team:

The Commonwealth Bank is the leading financial institution in Australia and provides integrated financial services.

The role sits within the Retail Technology division.

Retail Technology consists of Platforms and Chapters underpinned by areas of expertise that manage Retail technology, applications and systems to support the business.

Retail Technology is made up of the following areas of expertise:

• Technology Programs
• Engineering and Automation
• Strategy & Agility
• GTS Technology Platforms and Service Management
• Chief Technology Office
• Risk and Control Advisory and Delivery

Impact & contribution:

As an Engineering Manager you are:

- Empathetic and self-aware. You think and care deeply about how you might interact with your team, stakeholders and customers.

- A Mentor, harboring a passion to nurture, grow and influence those around you to think differently and always maintain a growth mindset.

- Innovative. You continually seek to improve the status quo for our customers. You inspire your team to do the same and remain resilient through change.

- Promoting quality and delivering at pace through the maximization of automation is one of the key focus areas of the role.

- Ownership, you take responsibility for the software design, engineering processes and quality standards of yours as well as your team members as you work in a collaborative environment.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As an Engineering Manager, you –

• Build, lead and inspire an engaged team of Engineers.

• Empower team to manage their work appropriately, respond to queries, address impediments and problem solve technical issues.
• Provide effective coaching to Engineers and establish mechanisms for peer-to-peer learning and mentoring.
• Understand how to foster and lead diverse teams and demonstrate commitment to doing so.
• Role model a culture of engineering empowerment, autonomy, psychological safety and constructive challenge.
• Understand unique skill sets of team members, providing personalised feedback and guidance.
• Communicate to senior management and key stakeholders to ensure clear path to execution.
• Communicate Engineering Practice standards and consistent ways of working across the domain and CBA that align to industry standards.

Allocate time for code review, refactoring and tech debt elimination over feature delivery.

Essential Skills:

Minimum 14+ years of experience with expert level knowledge, working with the following languages

• .NET Technologies
• Front End Web Development (ReactJS/Angular preferred – only for Full stack)

Experience working with the following Tools:

• IDEs (Visual Studio Code & IntelliJ)
• Streaming tool such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Source Control systems such as Git
• Build & Deployment tools such as TeamCity, Octopus Deploy
• Monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Check Marx

Awareness of the following Software Development Concepts:

• REST and API Development
• CI/CD and DevOps
• TDD and BDD
• Micro-services Architecture
• Secure Coding Practices

Education Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.