Chapter Lead - AWS Cloud

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: Chapter Lead- Senior Manager (AWS Cloud)

Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore

Business & Team: CTO- Cloud Foundations

Impact & Contribution: Here, you will create, manage and optimise the platforms used to power our entire business. You will have the opportunity to take responsibility for continuous improvement, ensuring our systems are simpler, faster and more secure.

The cloud movement at CommBank is going strong and continues to grow. We are looking for out of the box thinkers who want to use technology to work on real-world problems that have the potential to change the lives of our 17 million+ customers.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your 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. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

Roles & responsibilities:

As Chapter Lead Senior Manager, you will lead a team of CL, Staff and Senior Engineers with 10-12 direct reports. You are the go-to for people leadership and will pave the way to nurture and further uplift our engineering skills and capabilities – in the public cloud space (AWS), Platform Engineering tuned with the DevSecOps model and have a hand in our upcoming GenAI capability boost.

• Work closely with engineers and crew leads to translate product vision, strategy and roadmap into actionable tasks and be responsible for delivery outcomes
• Be a key point of contact with Business Stakeholders and other internal product teams to continually deliver value from the product and drive towards our strategic ambition
• Work with the team to define problems into user stories and solutions into business value
• Participate in research and evaluate data to inform decision making embedding continuous learning and improvement
• Work collaboratively with engineers, other product teams and Business Stakeholders to prioritize the backlog for the product that continuously delivers measurable value enabling the achievement of the business results
• Contribute to all stages of the product process including problem/solution definition, design, prototyping, delivery and optimisation
• Expert and enterprise experience in AWS Public cloud IaC, design patterns and operating behaviours of each: Rest API services, Containers services, Serverless application
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and experience working in a matrix organisation structure, previous experience working under Spotify model or similar agile framework is highly desirable
• You are passionate about keeping up to date with the latest technology
• Set and define the product strategy, vision, goals and roadmap, aligned to Crew objectives and purpose, and engage with key stakeholders to manage technical delivery.

Essential Skills:

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in Leadership role
• Deep understanding of AWS cloud landscape
• An interest in technical product challenges
• An obsession of solving customer problems, you love actively seeking out customers to understand their problems 
• A curious mindset that drives you to ask and answer the ‘why’
• Experience with iterative (agile) and/or lean design and development
• Set and define the product strategy, vision, goals and roadmap, aligned to Crew objectives and purpose, and engage with key stakeholders to manage technical delivery.
• Define the technology / architecture roadmap underpinning the product, aligned to Crew Tech Lead objectives, minimising tech debt and promoting the fast flow of value.
• Actively explore technology improvements and prioritise the work that accelerates the future flow of value
• Developing new tools and cloud (AWS / Azure) services to be integrated across the bank
• Solid experience working in a build and execution capacity
• Ability to influence senior leaders such as EM/GM level regarding the technology roadmap for Network technologies
• Driving automation through understanding processes and implementing improvements
• Strong presentation, verbal communication, and written communications skills
• Presenting your work to peers in your immediate team and to engineers, scientists, and managers across the broader Systems Engineering community
• Expert experience of programming in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar
• Hands-on experience with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure via code
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices with specific focus on the following concepts: source control, CI/CD, automated testing, logging and monitoring

 Educational Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.