Commonwealth Bank
Engineering Senior Manager
Sydney CBD Area · Posted 03 June 2026
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You are a hands‑on engineering leader who enables teams to deliver meaningful outcomes
We are a team committed to modernisation, reliability, and continuous improvement
Together we can modernise systems and transform financial services
About the Team
The Commsee Crew is responsible for the development, maintenance, and enhancement of the CommSee platform, which is a core staff-facing system used by CBA’s Retail and SME frontline and back-office personnel.
The platform supports CBA’s digital-first strategy, aiming to deliver modern, intuitive, and best-in-class technology for staff to serve customers efficiently.
The team works on evolving digital and assisted technology, ensuring the platform is secure, scalable, and aligned with business needs
Do work that matters
You’ll be part of CommSee platform team responsible for building the next generation lightweight web based staff portal. This is aligned to CBA's digital-first strategy, serving as the single pane of glass for Retail and SME frontline and Backoffice personnel.
Responsibilities of the role include:
Leading the design, delivery and operations of world class software
Coordinating dependencies across multiple teams and unblocking delivery as required
Building a high performing team through leadership, mentoring, and coaching engineers
Uplifting and adopting group software development practices and fostering a culture of AI powered engineering across our domain
The full software development lifecycle with a focus on excellent design and architecture, web, API, CI/CD, AI, cloud (preferably AWS), automated testing, infrastructure cloud pipelines, security, resilience and observability
Quality assurance through pair programming, code review and automated pipeline release management
We’re interested in hearing from people who possess the following (Technical Skills):
Strong architecture and design skills
Experience leading engineers
AI powered engineering and agentic AI for enhanced customer experiences
Developing 3-tier application both on-premises and on cloud covering Frontend, Backend and Databases
Backend: .NET Core, C# is essential
At least one scripting/programming language (i.e. TypeScript, Python, PowerShell)
Frontend: React, Typescript, NextJS (desirable)
Exposure and hands on knowledge working with different AWS services
Microservices design and implementation of highly scalable APIs
CI/CD tools (i.e. GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus)
Automated Quality Engineering and Testing (Unit Testing, Contract testing, Integration Testing, Functional/Regression Testing)
DevOps experience, especially Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation (desirable), SST, or similar tools
Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation (desirable)
Database: SQL and NoSQL experience would be advantageous
Beneficial competencies
Configuration Management
Observability tools (i.e. obstack, observe, prometheus etc).
Application Security
Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Working with us
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month 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. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work in the role you’re interested in.
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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