Senior Engineering Manager, AI Powered Engineering

Commonwealth Bank

Engineering leader at CommBank building high-performing AI-native teams. Develop tools and workflows for AI across the software development lifecycle with effective collaboration.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeSydney • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and continuously improve the AIPE engineering team’s system of work, including development practices, technical standards, engineering hygiene, operational discipline, AI-native engineering behaviours and mechanisms for measuring value
Set clear standards for observability, instrumentation, agentic development, engineering quality and operational readiness
Drive system-level improvements that reduce toil, improve developer experience and allow AIPE engineers to focus on solving problems for internal customers
Build and embed AI-native engineering practices within the AIPE engineering team
Use data, engineering signals and qualitative feedback to identify bottlenecks, improve development flow and lift team effectiveness
Support the delivery and evolution of AI-powered engineering tools and workflows
Lead, coach and grow a high-performing team of engineers, with clear expectations, regular feedback, career development and a strong product engineering mindset
Create an environment of high standards, psychological safety, learning, experimentation and strong engineering craft

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong software engineering experience and sound judgement across design, delivery, operations and engineering practices
Can lead engineers through ambiguity while maintaining clear standards, development focus and technical discipline
Passionate about AI-assisted and agentic engineering, and can turn emerging capability into practical, repeatable engineering practices
Understand how to build productive engineering systems within a team, not just manage individual delivery
Strong product engineering mindset and can connect technical decisions to customer value, feedback and measurable outcomes
Experienced people leaders who coach, grow and hold teams to a high standard
Can build clarity, momentum and alignment across squads operating within one engineering team

Benefits

Comp & perks

Diverse backgrounds, perspectives and ways of working
Positive impact for customers, communities and each other

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringAI-native engineeringobservabilityinstrumentationengineering qualityoperational readinessdevelopment practicesengineering hygieneAI-powered engineering toolsengineering systems

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingteam developmentcommunicationproblem-solvingpsychological safetylearningexperimentationclarityalignment