Sydney CBD Area, Australia
Onsite
Engineering Manager / Chapter Lead (Data Engineering) - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
See yourself in our team
Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) is a team of over 190 professionals and is an integral part of CBA’s Group Risk Function. FCC is accountable for the development, implementation and ongoing governance of the group’s financial crime compliance program - driving the Group’s approach to managing Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF), Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) and Anti-Tax Evasion (ATE) risks and obligations.
What your role will involve
You will be part of a specialist team reporting to the Executive Manager, Financial Crime Compliance. While this role is focused on supporting CBA’s New Zealand-based subsidiary (ASB), it operates within the broader financial crime advisory team.
In this role, you will support ASB in delivering technology and process improvement initiatives to strengthen financial crime detection and prevention capabilities. This includes ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations and contributing to strategic reforms across financial crime risk management, including Australian reforms and AUSTRAC expectations.
You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across FCC Australia and New Zealand, as well as enterprise-wide business and technology teams, to enable effective and efficient management of financial crime risks.
As Data Engineering Lead, you will lead, coach and develop a team of data professionals, including engineers, analysts and quality assurance specialists. You will also build strong stakeholder relationships, uplift engineering standards and drive continuous improvement across risk, compliance and platform health.
On any given day, you will
Lead, coach and develop a high-performing engineering team
Monitor performance and provide actionable feedback to support individual and team growth
Understand business objectives and translate them into end-to-end data solutions
Define and execute data and technical solution strategies
Design and deliver scalable data architectures, pipelines and integration solutions
Collaborate with business, operations and technology teams to ensure alignment with standards and requirements
Participate in the full lifecycle of agile delivery, from ideation to implementation
Ensure solutions are robust, secure, scalable and aligned to enterprise standards
Uplift engineering quality through best practices and continuous improvement
Contribute to delivery planning and ensure alignment with broader engineering strategy
We’re interested in hearing from people who have
Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to coach, guide and mentor data professionals to build capability and drive high performance
10+ years’ experience in designing and delivering analytics, data engineering and data warehousing solutions
Strong experience building end-to-end solutions on big data platforms (e.g. Spark, Scala)
Experience developing ETL pipelines using Spark/Scala, with working knowledge of UNIX Shell scripting and SQL/PL-SQL
Experience with AWS cloud services, including services such as S3, Lambda, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Athena, Kinesis and Step Functions
Experience with data platforms such as Teradata, Cloudera Hadoop and Apache ecosystem tools (e.g. Spark, Hive)
Strong understanding of data delivery lifecycle, data assurance frameworks and agile methodologies
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesise complex information into actionable insights
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
Working with us
You’ll have a highly valued and visible role. With exposure to complex matters and a variety of stakeholders across the business. From here, the opportunities are endless.
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with a hybrid approach of 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.
If you have the right skills and experience, we’re looking for, we'd love to hear from you!
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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