Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager (Digital Identity & Access)

• You are a knowledgeable Engineering leader in both development and operations, including best practice engineering, infrastructure management, system admin and DevOps Toolchains and SRE

• We are embarking on a large transformation across our Identity services and solutions.

• Together we can build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading engineering, technology, and innovation. 

Do work that matters

We're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.

CommBank is recognised as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Our Engineering team are the brains behind Australia’s number one banking app, Netbank, Cardless Cash, Comm Sec Pocket and Spend Tracker. We go beyond a passion for web and mobile development, creating reliable APIs at a unique scale in Australia. And you could be a part of that journey.

See yourself in our team:  

The Retail Technology unit delivers the best digital banking services to Commonwealth Bank customers and to do so is responsible for digital delivery, group data and analytics, technology and technology infrastructure, cyber, fraud, physical security and business resilience for all divisions across CBA. It is also dedicated to delivering the best workplace technology experience for our over 53.000 people across CBA and focused on providing the latest tools, technology, and resources to enhance the way we work together and empower our people to achieve more for our customers.

This role specifically is within the Identity & Access crew where you will have an opportunity to lead the future of our Identity & Access DevOps team while managing critical Customer Authorisation and Authentication assets, ensuring the day to day operations of these critical assets, managing security updates, and playing a pivotal role in helping us manage maintain and shape the future of Identity and Access related platforms. You will be at the forefront of emerging Identity technologies as we transition from Legacy technology stacks to a modernised identity platform, comprising of Retail, Group and Business Identity platforms

 We’re interested in hearing from people who:   

• Have demonstrated knowledge of leading Engineering teams including coaching, best practice and optimising support processes for incident, change and problem management. 

• Are sound with Customer Authorisation and Authentication systems management including day to day operations of a highly critical production platform leveraged by upto 9 million Customers and a vast amount of internal channels

• Are knowledgeable in Identity and Access Management as well as underlying security policies protocols and concepts

• Are constantly applying and promoting industry best patterns and practices 

• Have solid experience in Software Development, Operational Management DevOps and SRE

• Are able to work on a rotating on call roster once every 4 weeks or as required

Tech skills & experience:   

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We have an expectation that you will have advanced knowledge of the following;

• Identity and Access Management

• Solid understanding of Authentication and Authorisation principles and related protocols including but not limited to SSO, SAML, LDAP, OAuth, OIDC and FIDO

• Hands-on experience with Windows, Linux

• Programming languages such as Java, .Net, Python, Golang

• DevOps and CI/CD tooling with Github, Jenkins, Bamboo or similar

• Databases such as SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, etc

Working with us

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in the 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. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

If this sounds like you, apply now!

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