Commbank

Financial Services

SeniorEngineeringManager,AIPoweredEngineering

A$220–320k ~AI est. Australia FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Senior Engineering Manager, AI Powered Engineering at Commbank. Skills: AI-native engineering, Team leadership, Engineering practices. Own and improve AIPE engineering team's system of. Set standards for observability, instrumentation, agentic development, engineering”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver fast, safely, with measurable impact; Role-model high-performing AI-native engineering team

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Data-driven decision making

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Software engineering experience, Sound judgement across design, delivery, operations, and engineering practices, Lead engineers through ambiguity, Build productive engineering systems within a team, Product engineering mindset, Experienced people leaders, Coach, grow, and hold teams to a high standard, Build clarity, momentum, and alignment across squads

Nice to Have

AI-assisted and agentic engineering passion, Turn emerging capability into practical, repeatable engineering practices

What You'll Do.

Own and improve AIPE engineering team's system of

Set standards for observability

Ensure systems produce signals for customer feedback and

Drive system-level improvements to reduce toil

Improve developer experience

Allow AIPE engineers to focus on solving problems

Build and embed AI-native engineering practices

Ensure engineers use AI responsibly and effectively

Use data and feedback to identify bottlenecks

Improve development flow

Lift team effectiveness

Support delivery and evolution of AI-powered engineering tools

and grow a high-performing team

Set clear expectations

Provide regular feedback

Facilitate career development

Foster a product engineering mindset

Create an environment of high standards

Promote psychological safety

Encourage learning and experimentation

Uphold engineering craft

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Across squads; Across engineering team

Process & Methodology

Agile

Full Job Description

## _Senior Engineering Manager, AI Powered Engineering_ You are an engineering leader who can build high-performing teams, shape strong engineering practices, and lead an AI-native engineering team delivering tools and workflows used at scale. AI Powered Engineering (AIPE) develops tools and workflows that help CommBank engineers use AI safely and effectively across the software development lifecycle. The team is behind Project Coral, CommBank’s agentic engineering framework and human-supervised coding agent, designed to identify and suggest improvements to technical debt across the engineering estate. This role is accountable for the AIPE engineering team’s system of work. You will lead the team’s development practices, engineering standards and technical hygiene, ensuring the team delivers fast, safely and with measurable impact, and role-models what it means to be a high-performing AI-native engineering team. You will lead up to 10 engineers embedded across six squads, creating the conditions for them to do their best work. This includes coaching, feedback, growth, performance and capability uplift. ## Key responsibilities * Own and continuously improve the AIPE engineering team’s system of work, including development practices, technical standards, engineering hygiene, operational discipline, AI-native engineering behaviours and mechanisms for measuring value. * Set clear standards for observability, instrumentation, agentic development, engineering quality and operational readiness, ensuring systems produce the signals needed to understand customer feedback and value. * Drive system-level improvements that reduce toil, improve developer experience and allow AIPE engineers to focus on solving problems for internal customers. * Build and embed AI-native engineering practices within the AIPE engineering team, ensuring engineers use AI responsibly, effectively and as part of everyday engineering work. * Use data, engineering signals and qualitative feedback to iden

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