About the role
You are collaborative and enjoy solving analytical problems to help our team to reach highest potential. We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking. Together we will innovate the future of banking with state‑of‑the‑art AI Powered Engineering solutions. Do work that matters. Bankwest has a rich heritage. We are proud to be part of the fabric of Western Australia with a strong culture built on local support.
We’re building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank.
You’ll be part of Origination and Lending Experiences and as an Engineering Manager you will oversee the full lifecycle of Critical Systems, ensuring they meet business needs efficiently and cost‑effectively.
Responsibilities
* Managing service operations, maintaining system health, service continuity obligations, and ensuring IT asset performance.
* Managing a creative team of engineers, promoting continuous improvement, developing technical roadmaps, and improving the quality of technical solutions by implementing industry best practices.
* Working closely with other technical leaders and product owners to document new changes and drive various initiatives.
* Communicating well with the rest of the squad members, providing technical guidance and mentoring to the engineers in the team, while being exposed to interesting challenges.
Qualifications
* Possesses full‑cycle engineering experience: ideation, technical design, build, testing, release, and ongoing maintenance.
* Build, lead and inspire an engaged team of Engineers.
* Providing effective coaching to Engineers and establishing mechanisms for peer‑to‑peer learning and mentoring.
* Communicate Engineering Practice standards and consistent ways of working across the domain and Bankwest that align to industry standards.
* Actively embraces and integrates AI‑driven solutions (including LLMs and agentic AI approaches) to enhance engineering workflows and product capabilities.
* Can constructively challenge the status quo while influencing stakeholders at various levels.
* Empowers team to manage their work appropriately, respond to queries, address impediments and problem‑solve technical issues.
* Contributes to complex delivery planning by providing guidance and oversight to ensure that technical deliveries are aligned with engineering direction and strategy.
* Have operational experience working with large distributed systems, including managing system health, risk and compliance obligations.
* Have a deep understanding of Service Management Operations at an Organisational level.
Tech Skills
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these will set you up for success in this team:
* Application development background and experience using React (Next.js), Java, and REST APIs.
* Serverless Computing using AWS – AWS lambda, SQS, SNS, Aurora PostgreSQL.
* Experienced in working in a DevSecOps environment.
* Microservices architecture, Design Patterns, and best practices in software programming.
* Logging and Monitoring tools, and foundational SRE practices.
* Any experience with AI / ML, Agentic AI is a plus.
Working with us
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part‑time arrangements and job share to name a few. Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.
If you’re already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you’ll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application.
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