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Chief Engineer - Engineering Data Platform

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Chief Engineer - Engineering Data Platform in Australia new

  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Sydney

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical strategy, roadmap, target-state architecture and engineering guardrails for the Engineering Data Platform.
  • Lead delivery of scalable, resilient and secure cloud-native data platform capabilities.
  • Deliver trusted, governed engineering data products, metrics, dashboards and engineering intelligence.
  • Establish data quality, lineage, privacy, compliance, security and risk management practices.
  • Champion DevSecOps, DataOps, automation, observability, reliability and engineering excellence.
  • Influence senior stakeholders across engineering, data, architecture, risk, security and service management.
  • Enable AI, machine learning data, automation and data-driven engineering use cases.
  • Mentor engineers and uplift engineering capability, practices and inclusive engineering culture.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in senior engineering leadership roles.
  • Deep expertise in cloud-native data platforms or engineering platforms.
  • Experience with lakehouse architectures, data mesh and domain-aligned data products.
  • Experience with data ingestion, DataOps, testing, observability and engineering intelligence.
  • Experience with AWS, containers, serverless technologies and infrastructure as code.
  • Knowledge of data quality, lineage, privacy, compliance, secure software lifecycles and risk-based decision-making.
  • Experience with APIs, integration, developer experience, monitoring, service-level agreements and incident management.
  • Ability to translate business, risk and technology needs into strategy and influence senior stakeholders.
  • Proven delivery experience in regulated environments.
  • Ability to lead complex architectural decisions, work through ambiguity and mentor engineering teams.

Benefits

  • The role is based within the Commonwealth Bank Group, including Bankwest and x15ventures.
  • Existing Commonwealth Bank Group employees must apply through Sidekick with a valid application.
  • Accessibility support is available through HR Direct.

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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