Engineering Senior Manager - Database

Job description

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: Engineering Senior Manager - Database Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park Business & Team: CTO - Database Team Impact & Contribution: Senior Engineering Manager – Database and DevSecOps enablement Crew . A ccountable for leading engineering teams, developing engineering talent, driving technical strategy, and delivering business outcomes through technology. Roles & Responsibilities: Lead, coach and develop Engineering Managers, Chapter Leads, and engineers. Drive performance, career development, succession planning, and engagement. Foster a culture of psychological safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence. Build and maintain diverse, high-performing teams. Set technical direction and engineering standards. Ensure high-quality software, platform reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence. Guide architectural decisions and resolution of complex technical challenges. Promote automation, engineering productivity, and reduction of technical debt. Own delivery outcomes across multiple teams or domains. Align engineering priorities with business strategy and customer outcomes. Manage risks, dependencies, and operational resilience. Drive predictable execution and continuous improvement of engineering practices. Partner with Product Owners, business leaders, architects, risk teams, and executive stakeholders. Communicate strategy, priorities, risks, and delivery progress effectively. Influence decisions across organisational boundaries. Ensure compliance with engineering, security, operational risk, and regulatory requirements. Maintain appropriate controls and governance frameworks. Champion better risk outcomes and operational resilience. Essential Skills: Minimum 12-15 Years of experience across DB, Infrastructure and solutions Strategic thinking and organisational leadership People leadership and coaching Software/platform engineering expertise Engineering governance and risk management Architecture and technical design oversight Financial and business acumen Change leadership and transformation delivery AI and data literacy Strong stakeholder management and communication skills Good understanding of AWS RDS, Oracle, NoSQL DB, and experience in migrating DB from on prim to AWS. Education Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology. 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. We're aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. We want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696. Advertising End Date: 30/08/2026