Senior Staff Software Engineer

See yourself in our team 

You will be joining our CTO Engineering team. We are seeking passionate, cloud savvy, data engineers across diverse levels to help drive our commitments in our Data Strategy and achieve our vision for Commbank.data, a unified, world-class data platform enabling the next generation of AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabled applications.  

You will collaborate with industry leaders to drive forward our mission of revolutionising the fintech landscape. As part of our team, you will be empowered to deliver world-class, competitive banking products and services with unparalleled levels of service and reliability.   

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month 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. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.  

We are interested in hearing from people who: 

• Are proficient in languages such as Python, SQL, DBT. 

• In-depth knowledge of AWS services, especially related to data storage and processing such as S3, RDS, Redshift, Glue. 

• Are familiar with the full software development lifecycle with a focus on data ingestion process, data transformation pipelines, data integration and visualisation. 

• Understand data profiling, basics of numerical statistics and data quality calculations. 

• Has experience in handling large-scale data processing and analytics. 

• Can provide code quality control through peer programming, code review and automated pipeline release management. 

• Can coach junior engineers, share knowledge to uplift and improve software development practices. 

Technical skills 

This is a senior technical role, requiring a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. You will be a good match if you have previous experience in: 

• Developing 3-tier application both on-premises and on cloud covering Frontend, Backend and Databases.  

• Developing data warehouses or data lakes. 

• Experience with AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, SageMaker, or EMR. 

• Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation or Terraform (desirable) 

• Microservices design and implementation of highly scalable APIs. 

• CI/CD tools (i.e. GitHub Actions). 

• Familiarity with technologies like Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or similar. 

• Familiarity with visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Tableau or similar. 

Developed knowledge/understanding of (good to have) 

• AWS certification with exposure to any of the following AWS Lambda, S3, Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue, DynamoDB. 

• Application Security 

• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) 

• Observability tools (i.e. Splunk or AppDynamics). 

• Scripting using Python, SQL, DBT, Scala, Go. 

• Tableau, PowerBI for data visualization. 

Working with us 

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

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We are looking for people who truly live our values, care, courage and commitment and we will offer you exceptional opportunities to develop your career with us. 

If you are ready to be part of a forward-thinking company that values innovation, teamwork, and security, apply now and help shape the future of fintech 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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