Cba

ChiefEngineer

Australia FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Chief Engineer at Cba. Skills: Enterprise data, Data architecture, Data governance, Technical leadership. Lead architectural and technical decision-making. Own large-scale data migrations”

What You'll Achieve.

Power our most critical customer, banker and regulatory outcomes; Transforming how data is produced, governed and consumed at scale; Ensuring downstream platforms and critical business processes can rely on it with confidence; Deliver safe, scalable and production-ready data foundations; Balancing modernisation with stability, accuracy and risk; Ensuring continuity and operational resilience; Improving performance, reliability and production readiness for high-volume data; Uplifting capability across the organisation; Deliver enterprise outcomes

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Identifying and resolving data issues end-to-end; Tracing root cause across ingestion, pipelines, workflows, vendor systems and downstream consumption; Troubleshooting complex data issues

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Deeply technical, hands-on Chief Engineers, Experience operating complex, large-scale data environments in regulated organisations, Architectural judgement, Ability to make decisions in live environments, Track record of owning data outcomes, Lead enterprise-scale data environments, Own end-to-end data flows and data integrity across ingestion, processing and downstream consumption, Experience delivering major data migrations or transformations from legacy to modern stacks, Operated in production environments where data accuracy, integrity and availability are critical to business and regulatory outcomes, Expertise in data lifecycle challenges, including ingestion, transformation, pipeline orchestration and downstream consumption, Experienced in troubleshooting complex data issues and identifying root cause across end-to-end data flows, Understand data governance, controls, lineage, observability and operational risk at scale, Influence business decision making at an Executive leadership level, Partnered across product, risk and delivery to deliver enterprise outcomes

Nice to Have

Senior title preferred

What You'll Do.

Lead architectural and technical decision-making

Own large-scale data migrations

Ensure continuity and operational resilience

Identify and resolve data issues end-to-end

Define and govern engineering standards

Drive stabilisation and scalability

reliability and production readiness

Establish and uplift enterprise data product patterns

Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partnering closely with product, risk, architecture and delivery leaders; Partnered across product, risk and delivery to deliver enterprise outcomes

Full Job Description

* Competitive Salary + Annual Bonus + Benefits * Hybrid working, option to work from home 50% per month * Lead the evolution of CBA’s enterprise data **Do work that matters** At CBA, we’re building the next generation of enterprise data environments that power our most critical customer, banker and regulatory outcomes. Across Retail and Institutional Banking, data underpins everything from digital channels and payments to AI‑driven insights, Financial Crime outcomes, finance reporting, APRA obligations and operational resilience. We’re transforming how data is produced, governed and consumed at scale, migrating from legacy warehouses to modern, cloud‑native environments, establishing enterprise data products, and embedding strong controls, lineage and observability by design. **See yourself in our team** Consumer Finance is accountable for the core data foundations that support Cards, Accounts, Customer, NetBank, CommSee, CommBiz and emerging AI experiences. Our work spans Group‑wide data quality, accuracy, reliability and stabilisation, ensuring data is trusted and fit for purpose across the bank. You’ll operate at enterprise scale, partnering closely with product, risk, architecture and delivery leaders to shape how data is produced, managed and consumed across CBA, ensuring downstream platforms and critical business processes can rely on it with confidence. **What you’ll be doing** Reporting to the Technology Lead – Consumer Finance, you’ll provide technical leadership for enterprise‑wide data, owning the end‑to‑end data flow across ingestion, processing, transformation and consumption. You will be accountable for the accuracy, reliability, stability and control of data across multiple environments and domains. Our Chief Engineers are deeply technical and hands‑on, operating across live, complex environments while influencing senior stakeholders to deliver safe, scalable and production‑ready data foundations. * Lead architectural and technical decision‑making acr

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