Chief Engineer - Operations Technology

About the role

CBA is seeking a Chief Engineer to lead the technical strategy, architecture and engineering standards across its Operations technology platforms. The role ensures systems are resilient, secure, compliant and scalable, supporting critical business capabilities serving more than 3,000 internal users. It acts as the senior-most technical authority in the Operation Tech domain, driving modernisation of legacy platforms and alignment with enterprise architecture, risk frameworks and regulatory obligations.

Key responsibilities

• Lead modernisation of legacy platforms, cloud adoption, AI implementation and decommissioning of legacy systems, aligned with enterprise architecture and data strategy
• Drive API-first, event-driven and modular architecture patterns, and establish high availability, disaster recovery and operational resilience
• Improve system reliability, observability and incident management, and champion secure engineering and SDLC governance (CI/CD, automated testing, release controls)
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, lineage and trustworthiness, and design AI-ready data architectures with lineage, reconciliation, metadata and controls
• Set up responsible AI governance, model evaluation, prompt and agent governance, knowledge management and human oversight
• Build reusable AI and data platform capabilities such as vector search, RAG and AI skills, and integrate them with risk, compliance, analytics and reporting platforms
• Lead multiple engineering teams, mentor principal engineers and engineering leaders, and influence hiring and capability uplift
• Partner with senior leaders in Operations and Financial Crime Technology, and support executive and board-level discussions on risk, resilience and incidents

Required profile

• 15+ years of engineering experience, with significant time in enterprise-scale or banking environments
• Proven experience leading complex technology platforms and large-scale transformation and modernisation programs
• Experience in regulated environments (APRA, Basel frameworks, etc.)
• Preferred: background in data and microservice architecture, platform engineering or core banking transformation, and experience with agentic solutions and regulatory reporting

Required skills

• Distributed systems, data platforms and cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Preferred: Agentic solutions, technology modernization, regulatory reporting