CBA is taking bold action to modernise how innovation happens across its 15,000+ engineers — and ClearRoute is at the heart of that journey.
By focusing on Developer Experience (DevEx) and aligning teams to golden paths, the transformation is expected to unlock over $100 million in productivity gains, platform consolidation, and reduced developer toil.
For years, CBA had invested in modernisation efforts — from Agile to DevOps to cloud migration. But these initiatives had delivered incremental improvements, not enterprise-wide change.
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These inefficiencies contributed to delayed time-to-market, rising operational risk, and attrition among frustrated engineers. In short: innovation was expensive and slow.
ClearRoute is working alongside CBA to fundamentally redesign how software is built, tested, and released — with developers at the centre.
At the core is the DevEx platform — a centralised engineering portal providing:
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ClearRoute is applying a targeted rollout, starting with .NET applications — enabling scalable blueprints to be proven, measured, and expanded to other archetypes.
This approach ensures:
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Alongside DevEx, ClearRoute is building an analytics layer to measure engineering effectiveness across all teams. This includes:
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CBA’s investment in modern platforms, tools, and practices isn’t just about delivery — it’s also about attracting and retaining world-class engineering talent.
By removing the need for hyperspecialised, bespoke workflows, the bank:
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ClearRoute’s engagement with CBA is designed to deliver both short-term wins and long-term transformation. Over the next 12–18 months, we anticipate:
CBA isn’t just modernising platforms. It’s reimagining how software gets built. With ClearRoute’s developer-centric approach and platform thinking, the bank is laying the groundwork for exponential gains in efficiency, quality, and speed.
This is the new model for enterprise transformation — and it starts with DevEx.