Chief Engineer Core Banking

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Deterministic systems engineering at scale
Mission-critical financial systems expertise
Transaction processing and ledger integrity
** The Chief Engineer Core Banking role at Commonwealth Bank involves leading the engineering direction and modernization of a mission-critical financial services platform. The ideal candidate will possess extensive expertise in deterministic systems, transaction processing, and legacy modernization, focusing on enhancing performance and observability. **

Job Summary

  • The Core Banking platform is the deterministic engine behind Australia’s largest and most demanding financial services institution, requiring precision, speed, and dependability under enormous load.
  • As Chief Engineer, Core Banking, you will define the technical direction and engineering craft for the ledger and platform ecosystem, operating comfortably across infrastructure, platform, and application layers.
  • We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in office, and offer many other flexible working options.

Matching Summary

Match Score: 75

** The Chief Engineer Core Banking role at Commonwealth Bank involves leading the engineering direction and modernization of a mission-critical financial services platform. The ideal candidate will possess extensive expertise in deterministic systems, transaction processing, and legacy modernization, focusing on enhancing performance and observability. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Deterministic systems engineering at scale
  • Mission-critical financial systems expertise
  • Transaction processing and ledger integrity
  • High-scale performance and latency challenges
  • SRE and observability standards
  • Technical risk translation to business trade-offs

Nice-to-have

  • Deep expertise in ledger/accounting systems
  • Engineer-first mentality and coaching
  • Align engineering craft with business outcomes
  • Legacy modernization program leadership
  • Diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives

Key Requirements

  • 15+ years experience in mission-critical banking environments
  • Deep capability in core banking engineering
  • Deterministic systems design and performance engineering
  • Low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems
  • Infrastructure, platform and application-layer engineering
  • SRE, observability, SLIs/SLOs, MTTD/MTTR optimisation
  • Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) architecture patterns
  • Legacy modernisation experience

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