Executive Manager -Engineering Practice & Governance

Overview

As Practice Lead – Engineering Practice (CBA India), provide senior leadership to elevate engineering standards, capability, governance, and culture across the India engineering community. Shape how engineering excellence is defined, governed, and sustained at scale while influencing leaders across geographies and functions.

What you'll do

• Provide strategic leadership for the Engineering Practice in CBA India, setting expectations for engineering quality, consistency, and professionalism.
• Act as a trusted advisor and partner to senior technology and business leaders, aligning Engineering Practice outcomes with Group strategy and priorities.
• Own and strengthen governance for hiring, role definition, progression, and promotions.
• Lead the evolution of Engineering Practice frameworks and processes, ensuring they remain scalable, fit for purpose, and aligned across all CommBank locations.
• Sponsor engineering capability uplift by partnering with engineering leaders to embed skills development, training, and coaching aligned to the engineering skills framework.
• Build and sustain a strong, inclusive engineering culture in India that values excellence, continuous improvement, accountability, and collaboration across regions.
• Represent CBA India within the broader Engineering Practice community, contributing thought leadership and helping shape enterprise-wide engineering direction.

What you'll need

• 18+ years of experience in global technology delivery, partner management, IT Strategy, Agile Transformation or related technical field.
• Proven experience in a senior engineering, capability, or practice leadership role within a complex technology environment.
• Strong understanding of engineering job profiles, career frameworks, and the end-to-end engineering talent lifecycle.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and align senior stakeholders across geographies.
• A strategic mindset with a passion for raising standards, growing leaders, and driving sustainable engineering excellence.
• Experience operating within Agile environments, including governance and tooling such as Jira and Confluence.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen, with a strong risk and cost management mindset and sound decision-making capability.
• A tertiary qualification in Engineering, Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Manyata Tech Park.