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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 roadmap, target-state architecture, engineering standards, and guardrails for the Engineering Data Platform.
  • Lead delivery of scalable, resilient, secure, and cloud-native data platform capabilities.
  • Create trusted, governed, reusable engineering data products, metrics, dashboards, and engineering intelligence.
  • Ensure data quality, lineage, privacy, compliance, security, and risk controls.
  • Champion DevSecOps, DataOps, automation, observability, reliability, and engineering excellence.
  • Influence senior stakeholders and translate business, risk, and technology needs into measurable outcomes.
  • 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 data platform architecture, including lakehouse, data mesh, and domain-aligned data products.
  • Experience with data engineering and DataOps, including ingestion, testing, observability, and delivery automation.
  • Experience with AWS, containers, serverless platforms, and infrastructure as code.
  • Knowledge of data quality, lineage, privacy, compliance, secure software lifecycles, and risk-based decision-making.
  • Experience delivering engineering intelligence through metrics, dashboards, and reusable data patterns.
  • Experience enabling data for machine learning, automation, and AI use cases.
  • Experience with APIs, integration, developer experience, monitoring, SLAs, and incident management.
  • Proven delivery in regulated environments, strong architectural judgment, senior stakeholder influence, and the ability to make decisions in ambiguity.
  • Ability to set technical direction, lead complex architectural decisions, coach engineers, and deliver outcomes across reliability, productivity, and risk.

Benefits

  • The role is part of Commonwealth Bank Group, including Bankwest and x15ventures.
  • Applications from existing Commonwealth Bank Group employees must be submitted through Sidekick.
  • Accessibility support is available through HR Direct.
  • Advertising end date: 02/12/2026.

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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