Chief Engineer Core Banking

CBA (Commonwealth Bank)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Onsite
Deterministic systems at scale
Mission-critical financial systems
Transaction processing expertise
You will define the technical direction and engineering craft for the ledger and platform ecosystem, operating comfortably across infrastructure, platform, and application layers

Job Summary

  • You will define the technical direction and engineering craft for the ledger and platform ecosystem, operating comfortably across infrastructure, platform, and application layers.
  • You fix the most complex technical issues, then convert those solutions into reusable patterns, reference architectures, runbooks, observability standards, and platform components.
  • Success looks like a measurable uplift in SLIs/SLOs and reduced MTTD/MTTR for critical incidents, alongside enterprise adoption of reusable platform patterns.

Matching Summary

You will define the technical direction and engineering craft for the ledger and platform ecosystem, operating comfortably across infrastructure, platform, and application layers.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Deterministic systems at scale
  • Mission-critical financial systems
  • Transaction processing expertise
  • Ledger integrity and consistency
  • Nation-scale performance engineering
  • Platform-as-a-Service architecture

Nice-to-have

  • Engineer-first leadership style
  • Deep systems engineering excellence
  • Institutionalising wins and patterns
  • Transforming ledger into enterprise platform
  • Surfacing telemetry and operational signals

Key Requirements

  • 15+ years experience leading engineering
  • Legacy modernisation programs experience
  • Deep expertise in ledger/accounting systems

Work Rights

Not specified

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