Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering

Senior Software Engineer – Data Engineering

• You are passionate to stay ahead of the latest AWS Cloud, Data Engineering and Data Lake technologies

• We're one of the largest and most advanced Data Engineering teams in the country

• Together we can build state-of-the-art data solutions that power seamless experiences for millions of customers

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.

See yourself in our team

Our crew collaborates with Frontline and Business Banking customers to develop relevant payments data reporting. We aim to reduce the effort of operations investigations and executional processes related to payments data. This involves ingesting, storing, and publishing payments data, including new data, maintenance, fixes, and changes. Additionally, we work with Channels and internal customers to make value-added payments data available.

We are interested in hearing from people who:

• Are passionate about building next generation data platforms and data pipeline solutions for batch and streaming workloads.

• Are Enthusiastic, be able to contribute and learn from wider data engineering talent in the team.

• Are ready to execute state-of-the-art coding practices, driving high quality outcomes to solve core business objectives and minimise risks.

• Are capable to create both technology blueprints and engineering roadmaps, for a multi- year data transformational journey.

• Can lead and drive a culture where quality, excellence and openness are championed.

• Constantly thinking outside the box and breaking boundaries to solve complex data problems.

• Are confident in building data products or data assets from scratch, by integrating large sets of data derived from hundreds of internal and external sources.

• Can collaborate, co-create, and contribute to existing Data Engineering practices in the team.

• Can lead and mentor other data engineers in Agile teams delivering project work or initiative.

• Have a natural drive to educate, communicate, and coordinate with different internal stakeholders and consultants.

Technical 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.

• Experience in AWS data platforms (Glue, MSK/Kafka, Flink, Lambda, Redshift, Aurora, Athena, Kinesis, EMR, Airflow).

• Data Processing: Strong expertise in Python, SQL, Spark, Scala and distributed data processing. Experience in handling batch and streaming workloads.

• Data Governance & Security: Experience with AWS DataZone, Lake Formation, IAM, encryption and security best practices.

• Marketplace & APIs: Exposure to AWS Marketplace and  API Gateway.

• Automation & CI/CD: Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, GitOps, Dataform, Jenkins, and serverless frameworks.

• Performance Optimization: Ability to fine-tune ETL jobs, query performance, and cost efficiencies.

• AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect or relevant certification is a plus.

Working with us:  

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

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in 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.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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