Technology Product Owner – Principal Engineer

Technical Product Owner

Do work that matters: As a Technical Product Owner, you will drive important initiatives across all Retail Tech Business domains, being responsible for the technical design, development, and rollout of key initiatives to our end-users. You'll help uplift our engineering, automation, and DevSecOps capabilities, while driving a cultural shift towards security & quality-first and AI-powered development.

You'll ensure our platforms leverage industry-leading tools and practices that are scalable, resilient, and efficient. With a strong risk mindset, you'll ensure appropriate security and responsible-AI controls are implemented. You will be a strong advocate for best practice, capable of challenging and being challenged, to deliver the best technical solutions for our customers.

See yourself in our team: Retail Technology is responsible for the world-leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of CommBank - from innovative product platforms for our customers, to essential business. We leverage cutting-edge AI-powered solutions to drive simplicity and better banking outcomes, with strong emphasis on software development as a craft and adoption of industry best engineering practices, including modern AI/ML and cloud-native technologies.

You'll be part of DevSecOps COE which sits in the Retail Technology Engineering Domain. This team is responsible for driving maturity uplift in DevSecOps practices across Retail Tech. Our mission is to help engineers across our organization deliver application changes quickly, safely and more efficiently. We do this by looking at ways to streamline and drive simplification in DevSecOps tooling, technologies, and processes and by smarter automation, AI, and intelligent data processing.

We're interested in hearing from people who:

• Have an application development background and are passionate about adopting and promoting DevSecOps best practices, with key focus on Continuous Testing practice.
• Are able to translate product vision to roadmap and backlog.
• Demonstrate advanced commercial acumen and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Pride themselves in their communication and influencing skills.
• Are constantly thinking outside the box, and breaking boundaries to solve complex technical problems.
• Works well in teams and have strong collaboration skills in driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Are well versed with solution architecture, technology blueprints, AI/ML engineering roadmaps, and can translate the project vision, including AI deployment into actionable plans.
• Experienced with Agile methodology, working within an Agile Matrix would be ideal.

Tech Skills:

• Experience working in high-performing engineering teams, with technical background in developing software applications using .NET, Java, TypeScript, Python or similar in AI/ML and cloud settings.
• Able to promote DevOps culture of CI/CD pipelines and Automation supported by world-class tools.
• Leading and developing the product roadmap, and engagement with senior stakeholders to help manage the delivery of product roadmap.
• Act as the voice of the customer and business and being able to translate this into product backlog for the squad.
• Ability to contribute to strategy, AI solution architecture, and translate these into pragmatic engineering design decisions.
• Thorough understanding of large-scale distributed systems, solution design, AI-powered architectures, and foundational principles for building robust, intelligent services.
• Working knowledge of public cloud engineering – AWS preferred.

Working with us:

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you. We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in the Sydney 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.

Here, you'll thrive. You'll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

If this sounds like you, apply now!