Engineering Executive Manager

Organization

At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

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 / Technolo