Principal Engineer (Engineering Senior Manager) AI Powered Engineering

• You are passionate about AI and working to deliver better outcomes for CBA’s customers, employees and the wider community

• We are world leaders in AI ambition

• Together, we will innovate the future of banking with state-of-the-art AI Powered Engineering solutions

Your business

The CIO for Technology team ensures that CommBank has a world-class engineering capability and is at the forefront of technology, using innovative and emerging technology to help our customer and support our Group Strategy.

We work hard to ensure that best practice, whether inside CommBank or outside in the broader technology ecosystem, is discovered, sheltered, nurtured, and spread to wherever else it can drive the most benefit for the Group and our customers.

We are actively involved in the technology community, contributing to education programs, innovation, research, and partnerships that will set Australia up for success as the economy transitions to a more digital future.

Do work that matters

The CIO for Technology team is seeking an experienced Principal engineer to join our new AI Powered Engineering function dedicated to working with Commonwealth Bank’s global engineering community to use AI assisted tools and capabilities in ways that improve the engineering experience and productivity. You will be working with Commbank’s top engineers and AI experts to drive training, culture and experimentation so that all of our engineers are making the best use of the emerging AI technologies that make them happier and more productive.

Role responsibilities:

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems in the team, from technical design to production.

• Translate requirements into solid engineering deliverables, delegating work to squad members.

• Rapidly experiment with emerging AI assisted engineering tools, and partner effectively with engineering squads across the Group to support real-world testing and analysis.

• Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products.

• Follow a Product Engineer mindset by building features that are data-driven and customer-centric; fostering that culture within the Group.

• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and define architectural standards.

• Actively contribute to the code delivery through leading code reviews & documentation, direct contribution and fixing complex bugs.

• In addition to mentoring junior members in the team, you will also be responsible for hiring great engineers and developing their career.

We are interested in hearing from people who have:

• A proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale, complex engineering initiatives

• A working knowledge of AI/ML technologies and their application in accelerating the product development lifecycle including Generative AI

• Commercial or side project experience in one or more of the following technologies or related technologies: Anthropic Claude, Llama, LiteLLM, Cursor, windsurf / Codeium, VO Vercel, Continue, Aider, Cline, Langchain, Langgraph, Hugging Face

• Deep knowledge of architectural patterns, cloud-native solutions on AWS & Azure, microservices architecture, solutions integration and containerisation

• Exceptional strategic thinking and ability to define long-term technical direction for teams and organisations

• Strong mentoring and leadership skills, with a passion for upskilling engineers and fostering a culture of innovation

• The ability to influence cross-functional teams, articulate trade-offs, and align technical decisions with business objectives

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate emerging AI tools and integrate them into engineering workflows

• Proficiency in agile development methodologies and iterative experimentation from idea to prototype to pilot to product

• Expertise in full cycle engineering using modern DevSecOps practices, IaC and CI/CD tools

• Strong skills in working with large structured, unstructured and semi-structured datasets

Working with us

Please include a cover letter with your application that highlights how your experience, through personal or work projects, aligns with the requirements of the role and demonstrates your proficiency in AI-powered engineering. Referencing the specified tools, or similar technologies that you have used is recommended.

At CBA you’ll thrive be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. e will inspire you with work that makes a difference, surround you with talented people that respect and value each other, and empower you to grow professionally and personally. Most of all, making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.