Staff Data Engineer

• You are a cloud data expert and collaborative leader passionate about designing scalable, distributed data systems

• We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading 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 a brighter future for Australia.

See yourself in our team

You will be joining our IB&M Data Engineering team. Working with our stakeholders in the Data and Platform crew, you will help drive our commitments in our Data Strategy to achieve our vision of becoming the best AI Bank in the world to better serve our customers.

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 are interested in hearing from people who

• Have solid hands-on experience with building modern data technology stacks and tooling, including database experience with Snowflake, Redshift and Aurora

• Can create technology blueprints and engineering roadmaps for multi-year data transformational programs.

• Pride themselves in their understanding of data product mindset and data mesh architecture

• Are knowledgeable of architectural patterns, cloud-native solutions on AWS, microservices architecture, solutions integration and containerisation.

• Have comprehensive knowledge of AWS services, particularly those related to data storage and processing, including S3, RDS, Redshift, DataZone and Glue.

• Are experienced in the data development lifecycle, with a focus on data ingestion processes, data transformation pipelines, data integration, and visualisation.

• Are knowledgeable of financial markets and/or corporate & institutional lending products is advantageous

• Have an innate ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders from sales to technical leadership groups

• Continuously striving to learn new skills along with a positive ‘Can-do’ attitude

Tech Skills

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We do not expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these, or a willing to learn these skillsets (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team!

• AWS Cloud Certified at Associate or Professional level

• Expertise in AWS compute and services including Redshift & EMR serverless, Airflow, Glue

• Snowflake, Redshift, Aurora PostgreSQL

• Event driven architecture using Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or similar

• Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation or Terraform

• Proficient in Python, SQL

• Building CI/CD tooling (Github/Jenkins)

• Experience with Parquet File Format, Iceberg tables

• Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) 

• Ab initio or DBT tooling  

• Alation, Glue Data Catalogue & AWS DataZone

• Data visualisation tools and integration to Tableau, PowerBI

• Observability tools (i.e. Observe, Splunk or Prometheus/Grafana). 

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 our Sydney 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.

Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.  

If this sounds like you, apply now!

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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