Engineering Executive Manager, Group Security (Data and Software)

About the role

As Engineering Executive Manager, Group Security (Data and Software), you will lead approximately 50 engineers across Data and Software Engineering disciplines within Group Security. The role leads the transition to a modern enterprise data platform powered by Snowflake and integrated with AWS services, while protecting CommBank, its customers and communities from cyber, privacy and operational risk.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop multidisciplinary teams, strengthening capability and creating meaningful career pathways.
• Provide engineering leadership across a complex, enterprise-scale data platform transition.
• Guide the evolution of data engineering capability across Snowflake, AWS, Airflow, S3 and dbt, alongside modern software engineering practices.
• Maintain accountability for software applications developed and operated by the team while progressing strategic platform transformation.
• Champion high standards of engineering quality, security, resilience, automation and operational excellence.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Group Security on technology decisions and keep teams focused on security, customer and business outcomes.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and technical excellence.

Required profile

• Substantial experience leading engineering teams in complex enterprise environments, with the technical depth to lead experienced data and software engineers.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across data and software capabilities.
• Experience owning both engineering capability and the delivery and operation of applications or platforms.
• Strong stakeholder leadership, able to influence and set direction when priorities shift or problems are ambiguous.
• Experience in large-scale data environments where security, risk and resilience matter; security or cyber security experience is advantageous.

Required skills

• Strong software engineering background with deep data engineering experience.
• Significant experience designing, delivering or migrating enterprise-scale data platforms, including transitions between technology ecosystems.
• Strong Snowflake experience and AWS data technologies; exposure to Airflow, S3, dbt and cloud infrastructure is highly regarded.

Applicants who are already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group must apply through the group's internal application process. The role offers the flexibility to work from any of the engineering hubs within Australia.