Executive Manager Operations Technology

Overview

Executive Manager Operations Technology in the Corporate Technology team of Commonwealth Bank of Australia's India operations, providing leadership for India-based squad members to drive strategic alignment, operational efficiency and engineering excellence.

What you'll do

• Lead people and foster a culture of sharing, learning and problem-solving across Chapter Areas.
• Track the maturity level of squads and Chapters and build teams with high tech capability.
• Ensure adherence to engineering governance and control standards.
• Enhance strategic coordination and manage technology dependencies across squads and crews.
• Promote continuous improvement and innovation within the organization.
• Evaluate crew, squad and Chapter capabilities and identify areas for improvement.
• Conduct workforce planning aligned to the BU and Crews.
• Track financials at the domain level and provide inputs to the quarterly big room planning.
• Track annual metrics and OKRs at the domain level and provide inputs to the annual operating plan.
• Participate in planning, defining and high-level designing of solutions.
• Assist squads to identify the right technologies and ensure sound architectural decisions.
• Ensure high-quality delivery and engineering excellence for India-based squad members.
• Pace the way for squads to deliver autonomously, removing blockers, decoupling applications and streamlining processes.
• Improve engineering governance and control standards and handle interdependencies among crews and squads efficiently.

What you'll need

• 17+ years of experience in a relevant field, with 5+ years of experience in a core technology organization.
• Experience developing 3-tier cloud-native applications.
• Backend: Java.
• Database: SQL and NoSQL experience.
• Public cloud and infrastructure as code (AWS Cloud).
• Containers/Kubernetes.
• Microservices design and implementation of highly scalable APIs.
• CI/CD tools (i.e. GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus).
• Solution and system design.
• Application security.
• Observability: customer services and IT systems.
• Code quality control through peer programming, code review and automated pipeline release management.
• Mentoring and coaching engineering leads and teams.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Leadership (including people management), not just project management.
• Software engineering SDLC, release and deployment automation, service operations and support.
• Agile development, agile methodologies and agile project management.
• Organisational financial management and planning: tactical and strategic.
• Risk management for better risk outcomes.
• Persuading, influencing and conflict management.
• Problem solving.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering in Computer Science or Information Technology.

Nice to have

• Frontend: React and Redux, or micro frontend.
• AI powered engineering.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.
• Direct line reporting into the head of Corporate Technology.
• Applicants who are already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures) must apply through Sidekick.
• Advertising end date: 19/11/2026.