Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer

• You have knowledge and experience that spans both development and architecture, including data engineering, modelling and cloud architecture

• We are embarking on an exciting Data Transformation program and are ready to push the boundaries and deliver engineering best practices to elevate the data quality and availability in our domain

• Together we will 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. 
Here, you'll have the chance to bring your passion to life by working with the latest technology on groundbreaking projects that deliver a seamless and unmatched customer experience.  
See Yourself in Our Team
This role is part of the Reporting and Insights Crew within Financial Crimes domain , where we design and deliver cutting-edge technology solutions that serve data and analytical use-cases within Financial Crimes domain.

We are seeking an outstanding Principal Engineer to join our team and help to shape the direction of our data and analytics cloud platforms that we are building.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Will shape the future of our data and analytics platforms while focusing on designing, developing, and deploying innovative technology solutions that will enable us to build tomorrow's bank today.

• Are comfortable in leading our engineers to implementing complex technical solutions in a SaaS and cloud-based environment. You’ll possess a strong risk mindset in ensuring that appropriate cyber security controls are implemented and play a significant mentoring role in providing technical assistance to the engineers in the team.

• Enjoy and have demonstrable experience building enterprise software

• Have a broad technology background with engineering as a core competency

• Have experience building and leading teams through complex multi-year builds ideally gained in a similar role within an enterprise environment

• Have identified, gained support and ensured execution of technical direction and strategy

• Can design and implement solutions to complex problems, including onboarding and migrating to new tooling as well as removing obsolete systems and code.

• Constructively challenges the status quo while influencing stakeholders and building diverse and inclusive teams.

Tech Skills
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;

• Cloud-scale Relational and No-SQL DBs (eg: Redshift, Snowflake, Mongo)

• Data Integration & Cataloguing services (eg: Alation, AWS Glue)

• Data processing framework using EMR and Spark

• Fluent in all aspects of modern Software Development Lifecycle

• Experienced with at least one programming language (functional or OOPS)

• Comfortable creating documentation and design artefacts for Software Developers, Cyber Security review and other stakeholders

• Wide range of knowledge and experience across AWS Analytics services, Integration services, database services and Machine learning services

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 Sydney office

You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities.

We really love working here, and we think you will too.