Senior Platform Engineer (AWS, Data Engineering)

Senior Platform Engineer (AWS, Data Engineering)

• You are a motivated DevOps/Cloud Engineer with a passion for Problem Solving

• 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 Australia’s future economy.

CommBank is recognised as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Our Software team are the brains behind Australia’s number one banking app, Netbank, Cardless Cash, Comm Sec Pocket and Spend Tracker. We go beyond a passion for web and mobile development, creating reliable APIs at a unique scale in Australia. And you could be a part of that journey.

See yourself in our team

The CBA technology unit delivers the best digital banking services to Commonwealth Bank customers and to do so is responsible for digital delivery, group data and analytics, technology, and technology infrastructure, cyber, fraud, physical security, and business resilience for all divisions across CBA. It is also dedicated to delivering the best workplace technology experience for our over 53,000 people across CBA and focused on providing the latest tools, technology, and resources to enhance the way we work together and empower our people to achieve more for our customers.

You’ll be part of the CDAO (Chief Data and Analytics Office) team which is responsible for leading the delivery of world-class data, analytics, and technology capabilities to improve the financial well-being of our customers and communities. We’re in charge for CommBank’s key analytics capabilities and work to create world-leading capabilities for data analytics, information management and decisioning. We work across the AWS Cloud, Hadoop Big Data Platform, Analytics Workbench for Machine Learning, Pega Decisioning, SAS, R, Tableau, Oracle BI, Ab Initio. 

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Have showcased strong engineering practice standards and consistent ways of working across squads

• Have experience in designing, developing and maintaining cloud-based data pipelines with emphasis on real time or near real time streaming

• Demonstrates Shift Left quality engineering technical practices

• Are ready to contribute to CBAs Engineering Practice by participating in Guilds and working towards tangible outcomes benefitting the engineers in their routine tasks

• Can promote open communication and collaborate in a safe working environment eager to achieve great outcomes for our organisation, our customers and the community

• Has a passion for automation and self-serve with a vision to deliver world-class engineering experiences with seamless internal operations.

Tech Skills

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. Building efficient data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, and delivering analytics solutions that provide valuable insights are our main goals. With Technology rapidly evolving, we don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with most of these will set you up for success in this team:

AWS Cloud

Ideal Experience: Designing, building and deploying solutions in cloud infrastructure, understanding costs and ensuring security. Experience in Infrastructure-as-code tools.
Tools and Technologies: e.g. EC2, S3, Lambda, Glue, RDS, Redshift, CloudFormation, Terraform

Data Engineering Technologies

Ideal Experience: Designing, implementing, and maintaining robust real time/near real time data pipelines that support organizational data needs.
Tools and Technologies: e.g. Cloud Data Lake, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Confluent Kafka.

Programming Languages

Ideal Experience: Senior level platform engineering skills with capability to enable the platform for self-serve and excellent problem-solving skills.
Tools and Technologies: Proficient in Java and SQL. Strong Python skills are an advantage. Knowledge on modern databases like Key-Value store, Vector store, Document Store etc.

Automation

Ideal Experience: Implementing best practices for automation and removal of manual control work. Automate security checks for CI/CD lifecycle to ensure new deployments are consistently secure.

Tools and Technologies: Proficient in Python scripting, Bash, or PowerShell to automate tasks, manage configurations and troubleshooting essential.  Familiarity with Version control systems (Git) & CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Jenkins

AI & LLM Integration

Ideal Experience: Experience in LLM integration and Serving Frameworks. Deep understanding of API design best practices including security, versioning and documentation.
Tools and Technologies: RESTful APIs (GraphQL), Open Source LLM tech – LangChain, Langfuse, context management for LLM powered services e.g. MCP, RAG, prompt compression and selective context.

Additional Skills

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to understand the requirements and identify potential automation opportunities to build the self serve platform.

• Stay updated on latest developments in ever changing AI landscape

• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives

• Experience in Banking Domain is a plus for understanding and working with industry specific challenges.

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 however we prefer if you are Sydney based. 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!

Advertising End Date: 17/05/2025