Chapter Area Lead

FCT Engg - Chapter Area Lead - India

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: FCT Engg - Chapter Area Lead - India

Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park (Hybrid)

Business & Team: Corp Tech

Impact & contribution:

As a Chapter Area Lead , You will be working with other engineers across teams and geographies on uplifting business capabilities and modernise our tech stack. We offer opportunities to work on some of the finest IT systems in Australia, as well as opportunity to develop careers across different functions and teams within the wider crew

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Defining Crew software technical roadmap and ensuring alignment to reference architecture, enterprise data standards, and modernisation priorities including cloud-first and AI-enhanced solutions.

• Paving the way for squads to deliver autonomously at pace. Removing technology blockers, decoupling applications and streamlining processes. Enabling velocity through tech enablers such as DevOps, containerisation, and API-first design.

• Planning, definition and high-level design of solutions; assist Squads to identify the right technologies and ensure sound architectural decisions

• Working with Chapter leads on defining and forecasting Crew tech capability requirements. Support implementation of practices, tooling and training provided in the Crew e.g. architecture, engineering governance and controls.

• Driving operational excellence and supports teams in charge of mission-critical production services with diverse stakeholders and complex dependencies.

• Driving good design, refactoring and technical debt elimination. - ensure technical debt and associated impacts are visible to Crew and work with POs to reduce it over time

• Ensuring delivery within funding allocation, active management and mitigation of delivery and delivered risk

• Accountable for the development, performance management and career progression of a number of Technology roles e.g. Software and Systems Engineers

Essential Skills:

• Sound knowledge of large-scale distributed systems, Microservices, and Rest API Integration

• 15 Years of experience

• Cloud - AWS large scale data warehouse implementation experience

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing scalable, maintainable and reliable software solutions

• Working knowledge of AI/ML and Gen AI applications and how they can enhance software engineering processes to improve productivity

• You will have experience building RAGs using LlamaIndex, LangChain, or similar frameworks.

• Preferably have experience building Agentic AI systems using AutoGen, CrewAI, Pydantic, or similar frameworks

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript or C#) and experience developing microservices architecture on cloud platforms (AWS & Azure)

• A keen interest in researching new AI tooling and you are a daily user of AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Continue, GitHub CoPilot, Aider, Cline, etc.

• Knowledge of or experience in Anthropic Claude, Llama, LiteLLM, Cursor, windsurf / Codeium, VO Vercel, Continue, Aider, Cline, Langchain, Langgraph, Hugging Face will be highly desirable

• Strong technical leadership skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders to solve business-critical problems

• Ability to provide technical direction to teams, reviewing designs and code to ensure best practices

Education Qualifications:

• A degree in Engineering / Computer Science or a related discipline

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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