Engineering Executive Manager - Everyday Banking

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Job Title: Engineering Executive Manager - Everyday Banking

Location: Bengaluru

Business & Team:

Everyday Banking sits at the heart of how millions of customers interact with CommBank every day. Technology enables customers to manage their money simply, safely and reliably, and our engineering teams are central to creating experiences and platforms that customers can depend on.

We are looking for an Engineering Executive Manager to lead our Everyday Banking engineering organisation in Bengaluru. This is a senior technology and people leadership role with responsibility for approximately 150 engineers across levels. You will create the environment, capability and engineering systems that enable teams to deliver meaningful customer and enterprise outcomes at scale.

This is not a role defined by geography or by people management alone. You will be an integral member of the Everyday Banking technology leadership community, working across Bengaluru and Australia to strengthen engineering capability, improve technology health and delivery effectiveness, and help shape how the domain turns strategy into outcomes.

Impact & contribution:

- Own engineering outcomes – Translate Everyday Banking priorities into clear engineering outcomes and ensure teams understand the customer and business problems they are solving. Stay engaged from intent through execution and measurable value, rather than treating delivery as a hand-off.
- Lead a high-performing engineering organisation – Build, lead and inspire an engaged organisation of approximately 150 engineers. Establish clear expectations, strong leadership layers and an environment of accountability, psychological safety, constructive challenge and continuous improvement.
- Exercise technology and engineering leadership – Bring credible technical judgement to domain conversations. Understand the architecture, technology health and engineering constraints of the area you lead; challenge decisions constructively; identify systemic issues; and partner with CTLs and senior technical leaders to improve technology direction and execution.
- Build engineering excellence – Create engineering systems that improve flow, quality and safe speed. Champion DevSecOps, full-cycle engineering, automation, continuous delivery, observability, reliability, resilience, security and production ownership, using measures to drive sustained improvement.
- Improve technology health – Make technical debt, obsolescence, operational risk and engineering friction visible. Work with technology and product leaders to prioritise remediation proportionately, simplify the estate, increase reuse and automation, and avoid short-term delivery choices that create unsustainable complexity.
- Create autonomous, accountable teams – Reduce unnecessary dependencies and decision bottlenecks. Establish clear guardrails and decision rights so teams and senior engineers can make sound decisions close to the work while remaining aligned to enterprise standards and domain direction.
- Grow leaders and technical capability – Build a strong pipeline of Engineering Managers, Principal/Staff Engineers and future technology leaders. Provide candid coaching and feedback, create meaningful development and succession plans, and establish mechanisms for peer learning, mentoring and technical communities.
- Lead through others – Create leverage by developing leaders who can independently own people, technology and delivery outcomes. Deliberately avoid becoming the escalation point or technical dependency for every important decision.
- Influence and co-lead globally – Build trusted relationships across Bengaluru and Australia. Bring a point of view, influence without relying on hierarchy, challenge constructively and create shared accountability with Product, Business and Technology partners. Help Bengaluru teams participate in shaping decisions, not simply receiving them.
- Drive delivery with engineering discipline – Where you carry delivery accountability, translate priorities into executable plans, manage material dependencies and risks, and deliver predictably while protecting quality, resilience and long-term technology health. Where delivery accountability sits elsewhere, remain an active partner in removing systemic blockers and improving execution.
- Accelerate AI-enabled engineering – Drive responsible adoption of AI across the software engineering lifecycle where it improves developer effectiveness, quality, operational efficiency or customer outcomes. Establish appropriate controls, measurement and learning so adoption creates durable value.
- Lead risk and operational ownership – Ensure teams understand and own the technology they build and run. Strengthen service health, incident learning, vulnerability management, production readiness, lifecycle management and compliance with security, privacy, resilience and risk expectations.
- Shape workforce and capability strategy – Partner with domain and India leadership on workforce composition, location strategy, critical skills, hiring and capability investment so the organisation has the capacity and skills required for the future.
- Strengthen the wider Retail Technology community – Contribute beyond Everyday Banking by sharing practices, developing talent, solving common engineering problems and helping Retail Technology India become a distinctive engineering advantage for the Bank.
- Reporting lines:
- Functional reporting – Everyday Banking Domain Tech Lead / Technology General Manager, with accountability into the domain for engineering outcomes, capability, technology health and execution.
- Local reporting – General Manager, Retail Technology India, with accountability for local leadership, talent, culture, workforce health and the broader Bengaluru technology community.
- Leadership scope – Approximately 150 engineers across levels and disciplines, led through a layer of senior engineering and people leaders. The exact structure may evolve with the needs of the domain.
- Delivery accountability – The role may carry direct delivery accountability for selected outcomes or portfolios. Irrespective of formal delivery ownership, you are expected to actively influence prioritization, dependencies, risks and execution across the domain.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- You will lead a large, diverse engineering organisation spanning multiple crews & squads, engineering leaders and technical disciplines. You will partner closely with the Everyday Banking Domain Tech Lead / Technology General Manager, Crew Tech Leads, Product and Business leaders, Architects, Chief and Principal Engineers, and enterprise technology functions.
- The Domain Tech Lead / Technology General Manager remains accountable for the overall technology direction of Everyday Banking. Your role is to translate that direction into a high-performing engineering organisation: bringing a strong technology point of view, shaping engineering choices, challenging where needed, creating alignment across teams, and ensuring strategy becomes measurable customer, technology and business outcomes.
- You will also be a senior leader within Retail Technology India, helping build a strong Bengaluru engineering community and ensuring our India teams operate as co-owners of outcomes rather than as a downstream delivery centre.
- Your success will be measured by the outcomes and leadership leverage created by the engineering organisation you lead - not by the number of decisions you personally make or issues you personally resolve.

What success looks like

- Everyday Banking has a strong Bengaluru engineering organisation that is trusted as a co-owner of customer, technology and business outcomes.
- Engineering leaders and senior engineers have clear accountability and decision rights; important decisions do not depend on one or two individuals.
- Teams deliver valuable change faster and more safely, with measurable improvement in flow, quality, reliability, resilience and developer experience.
- Technology health improves over time: operational risk, avoidable technical debt and legacy complexity reduce while reuse, automation and platform leverage increase.
- Bengaluru and Australia operate as one technology leadership system, with strong relationships, constructive challenge and shared accountability rather than a sender-receiver model.
- The organisation has a visible pipeline of future Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers and technology leaders, supported by deliberate succession and capability plans.
- AI-enabled engineering is adopted responsibly where it produces measurable improvement in engineering effectiveness or customer outcomes.
- Where the role owns delivery, commitments are met with appropriate transparency and discipline without trading away long-term technology health.

Key relationships

- Everyday Banking Domain Tech Lead / Technology General Manager
- General Manager, Retail Technology India
- Everyday Banking Crew Tech Leads and Engineering Leaders
- Product and Business leadership
- Chief / Principal / Staff Engineers and Architecture
- Retail Technology engineering and platform teams
- Cyber Security, Risk, Controls, Data and AI teams
- Enterprise and shared technology services

Essential Skills:

- Are experienced engineering leaders who have led large, complex organisations through other leaders, ideally at 100+ engineer scale.
- Combine strong people leadership with credible technology and engineering depth; you can operate from executive strategy and organisational design through to meaningful architecture and engineering discussions.
- Have built high-performing engineering organisations with strong DevSecOps, continuous delivery, automated quality, observability, reliability, resilience, security and operational ownership practices.
- Can translate customer and business priorities into engineering outcomes, measures and pragmatic technology choices rather than managing only activity, capacity or milestones.
- Have led technology modernisation and simplification in complex estates, including technical-debt reduction, platform evolution, integration simplification and legacy constraints.
- Understand modern software architecture, APIs and integration, cloud and platform engineering, distributed systems, data, security, privacy and resilience sufficiently to challenge and guide senior engineers and architects.
- Have a track record of building engineering leaders, creating succession and lifting capability at organizational scale - including managing under-performance and giving clear, actionable feedback.
- Can influence senior Product, Business and Technology stakeholders through genuine disagreement, making trade-offs visible and maintaining constructive relationships under delivery pressure.
- Are comfortable operating in a global, matrixed organisation with split functional and local accountabilities, and can create clarity where formal authority is distributed.
- Use data and engineering measures to improve flow, quality, reliability, developer experience, technology health and customer value.
- Can make difficult prioritization and investment trade-offs, balancing near-term outcomes with sustainable engineering and total cost of ownership.
- Are curious and pragmatic about AI and emerging technology, and can turn experimentation into responsible, measurable engineering value.
- Lead with humility, courage and accountability, invite challenge, learn from setbacks and are willing to change their own leadership behavior as the organisation evolves.

Education Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Engineering

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