Sydney CBD Area, Australia
Onsite
Senior Engineering Manager – Trade Finance Platforms
You lead and scale high-performing engineering teams across Trade Finance platforms
We drive large-scale platform modernisation and cloud-native transformation
Together we shape AI-enabled, data-driven platforms in a complex, global banking environment
Join CommBank’s Institutional Banking & Markets Technology team, where we combine next-generation technology with leading banking and markets capabilities to help our clients succeed.
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll lead multiple engineering squads within the Trade Finance and Commodities domain. You’ll play a key role in modernising a complex ecosystem—transforming legacy systems into scalable, cloud-native, API-driven platforms that enable automation, straight-through processing and improved risk outcomes.
This is a leadership role that goes beyond delivery, influencing domain-wide engineering strategy across product, architecture, data and AI.
The Trade Finance Engineering Crew supports domestic and international trade and supply chain finance customers. Our platforms power critical business processes across Trade Finance, Supply Chain Finance and commodities, with a strong focus on digitisation, automation and data-driven decision making.
You’ll:
Lead and inspire multiple engineering squads, building a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
Drive platform modernisation, simplifying complex workflows and legacy ecosystems
Guide teams solving complex problems across distributed systems and data-intensive platforms
Contribute to domain-level engineering strategy across Product, Architecture, Data, AI, Risk and Operations
Embed engineering excellence across DevSecOps, SRE, observability and automation
Ensure resilience, security and reliability across critical enterprise platforms
Champion AI and GenAI adoption to improve engineering productivity and platform capability
Partner with stakeholders to remove delivery blockers and enable execution at scale
You’re an experienced technology leader who operates at both strategic and technical depth, with a strong platform mindset and a passion for building high-performing teams in complex environments.
Proven experience leading engineering teams and/or engineering managers
Strong background in software engineering, DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Experience building and operating cloud-native platforms (AWS preferred)
Expertise in distributed systems, APIs and integration patterns
Strong understanding of observability, monitoring and incident management
Experience delivering large-scale platform modernisation initiatives
Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence across business and technology
Experience working in data-intensive, analytical or regulated environments
Tech stack
Experience with Python-based application development and modern engineering toolchains.
Strong expertise in Software Engineering, DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
Experience building and operating cloud-native platforms (AWS preferred).
Strong understanding of:
Distributed systems, APIs and integration patterns.
Observability, monitoring and incident management.
Platform engineering and modern delivery practices.
Data-intensive application development and analytics-driven platforms.
Significant experience leading engineering teams and/or engineering managers with strong stakeholder engagement and ability to influence across business and technology.
Proven experience delivering large-scale platform modernisation initiatives.
Highly regarded:
Experience in Trade Finance, Commodities, Markets or similar domains
Exposure to AI, GenAI or Agentic AI in engineering or platform delivery
Experience delivering analytics-driven, quantitative or data platforms
Experience leading multi-squad or domain-level engineering strategy
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you. We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time 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. Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us. 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. We're aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. We want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support, please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696.
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.
We're aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. We want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696.