Competitive Salary + Annual Bonus + Benefits
Hybrid working, option to work from home 50% per month
Lead the next evolution of our Global Markets platforms
Do work that matters
CBA is leading the AI revolution in digital banking. Ranked among the top banks globally for AI capability and supported by strategic partnerships with Anthropic, H2O.ai, Amazon, and Microsoft, we are redefining how intelligent systems power customer and business outcomes at scale.
We are evolving the next generation of mission-critical platforms, this is engineering at scale, at speed, and with real-world impact.
See yourself in our team
Our Global Markets Technology domain brings together high performing crews who build and run the systems behind CBA’s institutional trading business. From ultralow latency pricing and risk engines to post trade and market data platforms, our technology runs nonstop and supports trading at scale across global markets.
Due to growth, we are now searching for an exceptional Chief Engineer to work across these crews to lead the design and build of our platforms. You’ll be joining a team that solves hard problems together, thinks fast, builds smart, and cares about the impact of its work.
What you’ll be doing
Reporting to the General Manager, you will be a senior member of our engineering leadership team with end‑to‑end architectural accountability for complex, front‑to‑back transaction platforms as we scale our AI‑powered and real‑time engineering capabilities.
As a hands‑on technologist, you will:
Lead the design and evolution of low‑latency transaction platforms across trading, pricing, risk, post‑trade and reporting.
Own technical direction and transformation roadmaps.
Design and govern high‑throughput, distributed systems across the full trading and transaction lifecycle.
Accelerate delivery through simplification, automation, reusable patterns and modern DevSecOps.
Embed AI and agentic workflows across engineering, testing, operations and incident management.
Define target‑state architectures using event‑driven design, modern data platforms and intelligent automation.
Mentor engineers and uplift technical standards, capability and leadership across the organisation.
We’re interested in hearing from people who:
Are highly experienced Chief Engineers with deep technical expertise in mission critical, real-time distributed systems, and who understand the full lifecycle of financial transactions (from pricing and execution through clearing and settlement), and how market structure, liquidity, and regulatory frameworks shape system design.
• Balance hands-on technical delivery with the art of influencing executive stakeholders’ decision making with clarity, credibility, and strategic thinking.
• Enjoy lifting engineering performance and throughput in complex environments.
• Bring practical experience embedding AI, automation and emerging agentic technologies.
• Are passionate about developing and mentoring senior engineers, raising technical standards, and shaping the next generation of engineering leaders.
• Champion performance engineering, resilience patterns, and controls-by-design from the first line of code.
Working with us
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time 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.
Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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