Principal Data Engineer (AWS Cloud)

Principal Data Engineer (AWS Cloud)

We're embarking on an exciting Digital Transformation program and are ready to push the boundaries and deliver engineering best practices to elevate the digital experience of our customers

You have knowledge and experience that spans both development and architecture, including data engineering, modelling and cloud architecture

Together we will build tomorrow's bank today, using world-leading engineering, technology, and innovation.

Do work that matters :

As a Principal Data Engineer, you’ll be building Data Assets for the Financial Crime domain. We work across the AWS Cloud, Teradata Group Data Warehouse, Hadoop Big Data Platform, Ab Initio technologies, which is a perfect fit for a data enthusiast loving to work across diverse technologies.

Here, you’ll be part of a team of engineers going above and beyond to improve the standard of banking, using the latest tech to solve our customers’ most complex data-centric problems.

See Yourself in Our Team

You’ll be part of the Data Engineering Chapter, building data assets for the Financial Crime Technology domain, where we design and deliver cutting-edge technology solutions that serve data and analytical use-cases with Financial Crime platforms.

We are seeking an outstanding Principal Engineer to join our team and help to shape the direction of our data and analytics platforms that we are building.

Roles \& responsibilities:

As a Principal Data Engineer, you -

Work with the team to understand our customers' core business objectives and deliver quality data centric solutions within committed timeframes

Contribute to thought leadership enabling analytics teams to deliver world class data centric solutions and analytics by championing sustainable and re-useable data assets

Design and build group data assets by integrating diverse data from internal and external sources.

Help to promote best in class coding standards and practices to ensure high quality and minimum risk.

Collaborating and communicating with business and delivery stakeholders and working.

Identify and escalate Technical Debt through simple processes to support effective planning and risk management.

Risk Mindset – All Bankwest employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks.

Able to build solutions that are fit for purpose, perform well with large data volume and complex data transformation rules, and reliable to operate.

Understanding of the development and release cycle following Change Management processes.

Creative problem solver, with open thinking to generate and support new or better ways of doing things.

Strong capability and experience with modern engineering practices and techniques.

Experience with Agile working practices is beneficial.

Prior experience working in Financial Services industry would be highly regarded.

We're interested in hearing from people who:

Are empathetic and self-aware. You think and care deeply about how you might interact with your team, stakeholders and customers.

Are a Mentor, harbouring a passion to nurture, grow and influence those around you to think differently and always maintain a growth mindset.

Can Innovative. You continually seek to improve the status quo for our customers. You inspire your team to do the same and remain resilient through change.

Can Promote quality and delivering at pace through the maximization of automation is one of the key focus areas of the role.

Has ownership, you take responsibility for the Data design, engineering processes and quality standards of yours as well as your team members as you work in a collaborative environment.

Are hands-on with broad technologies with engineering as a core competency.

Are keen bringing in pragmatic design and implement solutions to complex problems, including onboarding and migrating to new tooling as well as removing obsolete systems and code.

Skills Required:

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;

Continuously improve the data products with best engineering solutions.

Strategize, Design and Implement (hands on) highly reliable and scalable data pipelines and data platforms with comprehensive test coverage on AWS Cloud using AWS cloud native services – AWS SageMaker, Redshift etc.

Build and implement data pipelines in distributed data platforms including warehouses, databases, data lakes and cloud Lake houses to enable data predictions and models, and reporting and visualization analysis via data integration tools and frameworks.

RDBMS Experience on any prominent Database is required with strong SQL expertise.

Strategic thinking, External perspective, Product delivery.

Working with distributed teams, Continuous delivery and Agile practices, People leadership, Building high performing teams.

Hands-on development, analysis and testing.

Must have strong AWS hands-on experience (Glue, Airflow, EMR, S3, Redshift, Lambda), big data skills (Spark, Hive), and programming skills (Python, Java).

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.

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!

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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