Chief Engineer - Engineering Data Platform

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Chief Engineer - Engineering Data Platform in Australia

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Full time
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Australia
10/06/2026
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Sydney

Responsibilities

Define the technical strategy, roadmap, target-state architecture, guardrails, and engineering standards for the Engineering Data Platform.
Lead delivery of scalable, resilient, secure, cloud-native data-platform capabilities.
Develop trusted, governed, reusable engineering data products, metrics, dashboards, and engineering-intelligence insights.
Establish data quality, lineage, privacy, compliance, security, and risk controls.
Champion DevSecOps, DataOps, automation, observability, reliability, and engineering excellence.
Influence senior stakeholders across Engineering Platform, CTO, Group Data, Architecture, Risk, Security, and Service Management.
Enable AI, machine-learning data, automation, and data-driven engineering use cases.
Mentor engineers, coach teams, and uplift engineering practices and capability.
Lead complex architectural decisions and deliver measurable improvements in reliability, productivity, and risk management.

Requirements

Extensive experience in senior engineering leadership roles.
Deep expertise in cloud-native data platforms or engineering platforms.
Experience with lakehouse architectures, data mesh, domain-aligned data products, ingestion, DataOps, and engineering intelligence.
Ability to translate business, risk, and technology needs into strategy and outcomes.
Proven experience delivering technology in regulated environments.
Experience with data quality, lineage, privacy, compliance, secure software lifecycles, and risk-based decision-making.
Experience with APIs, integrations, developer experience, monitoring, service-level agreements, and incident management.
Strong stakeholder influence, architectural judgment, technical leadership, mentoring, and decision-making in ambiguous environments.
Passion for high-performing and inclusive engineering cultures.

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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