Engineering Manager

Job Description

Organization: At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people's financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title: Engineering Manager (Data)

Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team: The Commonwealth Bank is the leading financial institution in Australia and provides integrated financial services. This role sits within the Bankwest Technology division. Bankwest is a subsidiary of The Commonwealth Bank, and the Bankwest Technology division (BWT) is at the heart of our digital product strategy, and is responsible for the management and deployment of technology change across the organization. Our tech teams work at pace, with autonomy and local decision making, to deploy world-class solutions in the pursuit of our business strategy.

You are a Data engineer who's passionate about people and driving great technical outcomes.

We are a team of big thinkers, who are engineering the future of banking.

Together we can create industry leading digital solutions that impact millions of customers.

Impact &contribution:

As an Engineering Manager you are:

- Empathetic and self-aware. You think and care deeply about how you might interact with your team, stakeholders and customers.
- A Mentor, harboring a passion to nurture, grow and influence those around you to think differently and always maintain a growth mindset.
- Innovative. You continually seek to improve the status quo for our customers. You inspire your team to do the same and remain resilient through change.
- Promoting quality and delivering at pace through the maximization of automation is one of the key focus area of the role.
- Ownership, you take responsibility for the software design, engineering processes and quality standards of yours as well as your team members as you work in a collaborative environment.

Roles & responsibilities:

As an Engineering Manager you will:

- Build, lead and inspire an engaged team of Engineers.
- Empower team to manage their work appropriately, respond to queries, address impediments and problem solve technical issues.
- Provide effective coaching to Engineers and establish mechanisms for peer-to-peer learning and mentoring.
- Understand how to foster and lead diverse teams and demonstrate commitment to doing so.
- Role model a culture of engineering empowerment, autonomy, psychological safety and constructive challenge.
- Understand unique skill sets of team members, providing personalized feedback and guidance.
- Communicate to senior management and key stakeholders to ensure clear path to execution.
- Communicate Engineering Practice standards and consistent ways of working across the domain and CBA that align to industry standards.
- Allocate time for code review, refactoring and tech debt elimination over feature delivery.
- Work with the scrum team to define, prioritize and manage the product backlog to deliver on the product vision, goals and roadmap.
- Consult with business customers, stakeholders and cross-functional teams to build a shared understanding of the problem and solution and ensure there is support for scope and delivery decisions.
- Publish and communicate the product strategy and roadmap to stakeholder and teams.
- Assess and prioritize work based on outcomes to deliver maximum value.
- Continuously order and refine product backlog to deliver maximum value in line with a clear product strategy and roadmap.
- Take accountability for the prioritization of the backlog.
- Manage conflicts, issues and risks to optimize solution and ensure alignment to scope.
- Promote continuous improvement of the Product Owner practice within the organization.
- Manage the plan or product roadmap including any risk, security or financial assets within accountabilities
- AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud (working experience with some of the core services EMR, EC2, S3, Auto-scaling, etc.) desirable.
- Experience with large migration programs and automating things to scale up migrations from on-prem to cloud. Hands on, Design and develop exceptionally reliable and scalable data pipelines and data platforms with comprehensive test coverage.
- Deliver data engineering solutions aligned to core concepts of data design, preparation, transformation, and load.
- Build and implement data pipelines in distributed data platforms including warehouses, databases, data lakes and cloud Lake houses to enable data predictions and models and reporting and visualization analysis via data integration tools and frameworks.

Required skills:

- Minimum 12+ years of experience with expert level knowledge, working with the following toolsets:
- ETL processes and practices
- Data structures and dimensional modelling
- SAS DI studio, Hadoop, Snowflake experience
- Unix and batch scheduling tools
- SQL - preferable Oracle Experience working with the
- following Tools:
- Confluence and Jira Awareness of the following
- Software Development Concepts:
- Product management
- Secure Coding Practices
- Strong experience in SAS / R / Python
- Monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics
- AWS Data Engineer certification is must

Experience working with the following Tools:

- Source Control systems such as Git /Endevor
- Build & Deployment tools such as Jenkins,
- TeamCity, Octopus Deploy
- Confluence and Jira
- Unit Testing

Awareness of the following Software Development Concepts:

- Agile methodology

Education Qualification: Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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