Senior Data Engineer (AWS)

Senior Data Engineer

• You are passionate to stay ahead of the latest AWS Cloud, 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:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be part of the Engineering Chapter building Data Assets for the Financial Crime domain.   We work across the AWS Cloud, Teradata Group Data Warehouse, Hadoop Big Data Platform and Snowflake technologies, which is why we’re the perfect fit for you. Here, you’ll be part of a team of engineers going above and beyond to improve the standard of digital banking, using the latest tech to solve our customers’ most complex data-centric problems.

We are interested in hearing from people who:

• Worked in an Agile environment to solve problems and achieve common objectives in the data engineering space.

• Have Experience in collaborating with business stakeholders to understand their processes, goals and pain points

• Have ability to gather, analyse and document business and technical requirements

• Have ability to translate business needs into detailed use cases and functional specifications

• Have knowledge in defining and implementing test cases, test strategy, test plans for bigdata/ cloud applications and pipelines

• Have ability to perform product deployment – using CICD pipelines.

• Have experience with data governance controls, data security and data management.

• Are Passionate about building next generation data platforms and data pipeline solution across the bank.

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

• Have experience and responsible for data security and data management.

• Are constantly thinking creatively and breaking boundaries to solve complex data problems.

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!

• Experience in building data solution in Hadoop and Big Data platforms, using Spark framework and Python.

• Experience with Cloud Technologies including Redshift, Iceberg tables, EMR, Glue, Athena, S3 & Snowflake.

• Data Processing: Strong expertise in Python, SQL, Spark

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

• Marketplace & APIs: Exposure to AWS Marketplace, API Gateway, and data monetization strategies.

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

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

• Exp with Oracle Database, PL/SQL (procedures, functions, packages, triggers) is desirable

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’re hiring engineers from across all of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their 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 in the role you’re interested in.

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!