Engineering Manager

Organization: At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title: Chapter Lead (15+ years)

Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore

Business & Team: Chief Technology Office (CTO) / Database Crew

Impact &contribution: Database Development Team is responsible for the design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance of Enterprise systems heavily coded on database side (which include CommSee, CommBiz, Mobile Apps and Netbank). These systems rely on Oracle RDBMS, and a team of development specialists and PL/SQL developers has been established to design and implement functional and non-functional enhancements and additions to these databases.

Roles & responsibilities:

As a Chapter Lead, you will be leading team of Engineers under Database Development Squad with goal setting, performance, career development and engagement. Own complete delivery, provide technical consulting and advice to projects to ensure alignment with other Infrastructure Teams within the Crew. Support the embedding of a positive engineering culture. Ensure adherence to standards and technical quality. Guide complex technical problem solving.

• Build, lead and inspire an engaged team of Database Engineers by attracting, hiring and retaining industry-best talent with positive engagement.
• Empower team to manage their work appropriately, respond to queries, address impediments and problem solve technical issues.
• Provide effective coaching to Engineers and establish mechanisms for peer-to-peer learning and mentoring.
• Understand how to foster and lead diverse teams and demonstrate commitment to doing so.
• Role model a culture of engineering culture, empowerment, autonomy, psychological safety and constructive challenge.
• Understand unique skill sets of team members, providing personalised feedback and guidance.
• Communicate to senior management and key stakeholders to ensure clear path to execution.
• Communicate Engineering Practice standards and consistent ways of working across the domain and CBA that align to industry standards.
• Allocate time for code reviews, refactoring and tech debt elimination over feature delivery.
  
  

Essential skills:

• Minimum 15 years of experience.
• Have a strong background and skills in the relational database space, specifically Oracle and SQL Server.
• Have experience in cloud DBs
• Advanced tuning skills in a high-volume Enterprise grade Oracle enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of Database architecture and DevOps experience.
• Can effectively communicate engineering practice standards and consistent ways of working across squads and CBA that align to global best practice.
• Can drive operational excellence and support teams in charge of mission-critical production services with diverse stakeholders and complex dependencies.
• Advocate for new technology approaches, with the experience to understand the architectural integration of new software solutions.
• Have Influential and confident stakeholder management skills, this role will see you working across risk, product, digital, technology and compliance
  
  

Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.

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