Senior Engineering Manager - Chapter Lead, Workflow

Senior Engineering Manager - Chapter Lead, Workflow

You are collaborative and enjoy solving problems to help our team to reach highest potential.

We're one of the biggest workflow practices across Australia.

Together we can build state-of-the-art solutions for people.

Do work that matters.

The Workflow Crew is responsible for driving the architecture, design, build and governance roadmap across the group for various workflow technologies. This is your opportunity to join an established company where there is a focus on personal and professional development.

As an organisation, we foster an innovative, dynamic culture and a genuine commitment to drive diversity and inclusion. As Senior Engineering Manager - Chapter Lead in Workflow, you will be responsible for leading engineers that report to you, instilling a growth mindset and innovative ways of working. You will also be hands on to lead ongoing change and development for the workflow solutions and provide technology oversight to different business units.

You also have the opportunity to share your technical expertise and leadership to strengthen the standards of the team that spans across multiple geographies.

See yourself in our team.

Within this role, you will work alongside a fantastic team of people, and highly invested leaders focused on your career progression.

You will foster an environment of engineering excellence and a culture of ongoing improvement. You will support critical programs of work by designing and implementing solutions for business-driven initiatives and technology uplift as part of Workflow Crew. You will enjoy working in a hybrid agile development environment, running workshops and sprint ceremonies.

As a Senior Engineering Manager - Chapter Lead, you will help to shape the future of our platforms while focusing on designing, developing, and deploying innovative technology solutions that will enable us to build tomorrow's bank today. You'll use your skills in leading engineers and implementing complex workflow solutions in a cloud-based environment. Also, you'll have a strong risk mindset in ensuring that appropriate cyber security controls are implemented and play a significant mentoring role in providing technical assistance to the engineers in the team.

We're interested in hearing from people who:

• Have demonstrated experience in leading high-performing cross-functional engineering teams
• Collaborate with a team of high performing engineers to build and deploy multiple technology solutions that will help in defining current and future states, as well as the roadmap
• Hands-on ability to design and deliver technology solutions that solve complex business and technology problems from start to finish
• Have demonstrated experience in translating the project vision into actionable plans and iterative delivery.
• Constructively challenges the status quo while influencing stakeholders at various levels
• Influences the future of the Group's technology and direction every day

Technical skills:

• Hands-on engineering manager that can lead software engineers in building cloud scalable platforms.
• Expertise with API specification, design, registration and tooling (eg OpenAPI, AWS Gateway)
• CI/CD: expertise with usage and configuration of fully automated pipelines is useful. This includes GitHub Actions, Artifactory and GitRepo.
• DevOps: Familiarity with DevOps-managed environments. Specifically, around observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, Promethius, PagerDuty)
• Language orientation: Experience on C#, .NET Framework Core, essential. SOAP/REST APIs, Microservices and containerisation a plus. Node, Python and scripting knowledge useful
• Artificial Intelligence: Sound knowledge in AI technologies, particularly around tooling enhancements will be valued.
• Data engineering: Knowledge in building a data lake using real-time and near real-time services, along with data transformation, aggregation, and offering through API endpoints
• Test Automation: Unit/Integration/Acceptance/Performance testing experience in API.
• Security: Defence in depth, including identity management, encryption and public cloud security obligations
• Experience in distributed, low latency environments.
• Databases: Relational databases (e.g. Postgres / Oracle), as well as data warehousing and No-SQL databases (MongoDB).
• Familiarity in event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ) and orchestration (Apache Camel, Temporal, Mulesoft)

What will set you up for success?

• Prioritise work that supports engineers to be productive and autonomous.
• An evangelist for engineering principles, practices and standards
• Be responsible for the strategic technology direction for the team, including managing code
• Manage workforce planning and staff retention, cultivating a safe and trusted working environment
• You are able to manage relationships and communications with project stakeholders, including customers and delivery teams. Along with vendors and third-party suppliers
• Champion thought leadership for the process architecture and develop options for improving and updating current capability.
• Act as an escalation, advice, and decision-making point for Workflow Solutions.
• Review and contribute to reference architecture and platform initiative involving workflow.
• Monitor emerging technologies, industry developments, directions, and best practices.
• Provide specialised expertise and development using C#, Python, Java.
• Analysing systems to provide system support and recommendations for development.
• Expert troubleshooting of implementation, environment and deployment issues.
• Establish new ways of working and promote DevOps culture of CI/CD pipelines and Automation supported by world-class tools
• Have expertise in managing any workflow based technical environments (preferably Pega, Appian)
• Expertise to define and effectively communicate a long-term technical vision
• Excellent communication skills. Working experience with Agile methodologies.

Working with us

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you. Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we're driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day. Here, you'll thrive. You'll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We're hiring engineers from across all of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too. 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 this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today! 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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