Technology Product Owner – Principal Engineer

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: Technical Product Owner
Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore
Business & Team: CTO - IT Service Management & Operations

Impact &contribution: The Service Management Modernisation Program (SMM) is a pivotal transformation to achieve the target state DevSecOps vision. This newly formed stream will form part of a larger squad working together to build solutions. A Product Manager will balance effort and complexity across a list of improvements. The squad will be involved with engineers in Business units to creatively solve their problems and pain points. 

Roles & responsibilities:

• Working closely with the central enablement teams: Engineers, Process Leads and Tech Leads (small pod of consultants will help with the tech strategy and directions), to translate product vision, strategy and roadmap into actionable tasks and be responsible for delivery outcomes
• Work with the central team and also bank wide users to capture problems into user stories and then workshop with engineers to action into solutions, and with business stakeholders to prove the business value
• Identify and manage risks, dependencies and issues for the Squad 
• Work collaboratively with engineers of other product teams and Business Stakeholders to prioritize the backlog, to identify the pain points, automation opportunities and performance bottlenecks in existing infrastructure
• Facilitates the gathering of and ideas from the teams within CBA (outside of the central enablement team), and distils it all down to a customer backlog 
• Take accountability for the development and direction of strategic programs of work, using knowledge of platform architectures to deliver systems that are seamlessly integrated, comply with technical requirements and deliver business outcomes
• Role model best practices and industry standards to inspire and ensure strategic practice development within teams or platform
• Take accountability and drive a learning focused culture including mentoring and up-skilling within own and adjacent teams and technologies.
   

Essential skills:

• 10+ Years of experience in relevant field.
• Proficient with JIRA, Confluence, Scrum and Agile framework and culture.
• Technical knowledge important for this role - DevOps, CI/CD, system integrations. APIs and software engineering as well as ServiceNow, Operations and service management would be desirable
• Experience with Go, JavaScript (React/Node), TypeScript, Python, ReactJS, SQL, AWS, RESTful APIs, Infrastructure of Code, Cloud (AWS) 
• Passion for continually improving the processes for CBA engineers and knowledge of micro services architecture and RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow and Container technology, Docker and Kubernetes/EKS
• Source control and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD TeamCity and Artifactory, Monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with modern software engineering practices such as Trunk development, Pact Testing, Unit Testing, and Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Knowledge and experience in the area of application development and design specialisation and Demonstrated experience with continuous delivery technologies, CI / CD solution design and implementation. 

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

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