Staff Engineer

Do work that matters 

Technology is responsible for the world leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of CommBank, from innovative product platforms for our customers to essential tools within our business. We also use technology to drive efficient and timely processing, an essential component of great customer service. 

At the core, our business is banking, but technology is critical to serve the needs of our 5+ million business and retail customers and realizing our vision to excel at securing and enhancing the financial wellbeing of people, businesses and communities. We operate at a scale unique in Australia, and this in turn presents technical challenges you’d be hard pressed to find elsewhere. 

See yourself in our team 

As part of Financial Services Technology – Finance domain (3LOA Crew) we’re focused on delivering digital era-experiences that are simple, smart and secure. We’re anchored by open communication, quality work and a culture of excellence, and we offer a collaborative and supportive space to share knowledge. 

As a Staff Engineer, you will contribute to business-driven projects and programs that expand and enhance offerings of Financial and Non- Financial risk and Audit products. As such, your key role will be defining technical solutions for Financial and Non- Financial risk and Audit product initiatives, particularly around the 3 Lines of Assurance (3LOA), and working with the engineering teams on the solutions delivering, that will meet our Group’s safe, sound and secure standards. 

Other duties will include: 

• Lead the design and development of highly reliable and scalable data pipelines and data platforms with comprehensive test coverage. 
• Develop strategic data programs and data products. 
• Participate in domain planning, providing guidance to ensure that technical deliveries are aligned to engineering direction and strategy. 
• Partner with teams to engineer improvements to the scaling and reliability of our services. 
• Provide data engineering practice consultancy across platforms, products and delivery teams. 
• Identify and drive opportunities for continuous improvement within the team and in delivery of products. 
• Deliver high quality, sustainable solutions to meet business requirements, leveraging approved delivery frameworks and by applying industry best practice. 
• Develop reusable frameworks and tooling to accelerate data engineering maturity. 
• Provide thought leadership, mentorship and up-skilling to other engineering teams. 
   

Your Skills & Experience 

• Tertiary education in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline. 
• Demonstrable experience working collaboratively with cross functional teams, stakeholders, review boards and committees to deliver technology outcomes. 
• Experienced in designing, deploying and managing scalable, resilient and high performing systems within complex, hybrid cloud (ideally in AWS) and on-premise, enterprise-grade environments. 
• Finance and Risk domain expertise, including Risk insights end-to-end life cycle such as origination/fulfilment and management. 
• Extensive experience with AWS data services, including AWS EC2/EKS containers, S3, Redshift, Apache Kafka and other ETL related technologies (Ab initio). 
• Proven Architect and design advanced data engineering frameworks on AWS and other AWS Data services technology or any other Cloud environments (Azure/GCP).
• Develop strategic plans for scalable data solutions, overseeing their implementation and maintenance. 
• Complex problem solving skills and strategic thinking, able to align technical solutions with the Group long-term strategy. 
• Comprehensive understanding and adherence to data management ,controls and security principles, including encryption, identity access management. 
• Clear and effective communication skills with experience in collaborating with stakeholders across multiple environments 
• Risk Mindset –All CommBank employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks. 
• Comprehensive understanding and adherence to Cloud/ AI/ cyber security best-practice principles 

Working with us:

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

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

Here, you’ll thrive. 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.

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