Staff Data Engineer
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Do work that matters
We're building tomorrow's bank today — and that takes creative, diverse engineers who want to push boundaries, work at scale, and solve complex data‑driven challenges that matter.
As a Staff Data engineer with expertise in data engineering, you’ll work at the Everyday Banking team to design data workflows and data integrations. If you’re motivated by scale, complexity, and purpose this role is built for you.
See yourself in our team
This role sits within EDB (Everyday Banking – Retail Tech), where we design and deliver technology solutions that ensure the Everyday Banking solutions align to CBA data architecture and design produce right outcomes to customers and data analytics team.
As a staff Data Engineer, you’ll be an integral member of our Engineering practice. Your role will be to lead and guide a team of engineers collaborating across a wide range of business and technical stakeholders to deliver a transformative and strategic data platform initiative to meet current and future crew requirements
We are seeking an outstanding staff Data Engineer to join our team and help shape the reporting solutions that we are building
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design, build and deliver a new cloud data solution to transform our international regulatory reporting requirements
- Lead the design and delivery of cost-effective, scalable data solutions aligned with strategic goals that meet performance, security and operational requirements.
- Drive solution architecture decisions ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and business priorities
- Engineer robust data product assets and pipelines in AWS (S3, Glue, Iceberg, Kinesis, Airflow, Sagemaker, Redshift) that integrate with other applications including SaaS reporting applications eg. Axiom
- Provide technical data governance and risk management,
- Lead a team of data engineers providing technical guidance, reviewing work and mentoring team members to deliver high-quality data products
- Define and implement engineering standards, including data modelling, ingestion, transformation, and egression patterns and reviews
- Collaborate across teams to ensure secure, efficient, and well-documented solution.
- Learn and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the team.
We are interested in hearing from people who
- Have strong experience in Data Engineering using Agile practices and DevSecOps
- Are experienced in designing, building and delivering “greenfield” data solutions in AWS Cloud using cloud native technologies that produce data products or data assets with proper data quality assurance and security controls.
- Are passionate technology leaders, can mentor and build a good community of engaged and curious engineers
- Have strong solution design capabilities, consistently driving cost effective and technologically feasible solutions, while steering solution decisions across the group, to meet both operational and strategic goals is essential.
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Have an ability to engage, manage internal stakeholders and external suppliers
- Have a problem-solving mindset with a focus on automation and continuous process improvement
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;
- Extensive experience in designing, building, and delivering enterprise-wide data ingestion, data integration and data pipeline solutions
- Strong Data Architecture expertise including different data modelling techniques and design patterns (conceptual, logical, physical, semantic is preferred)
- Strong knowledge of data governance such as data lineage, technical metadata, data quality and reconciliation
- Ability to drive platform efficiency through automation and AI capabilities
- AWS Data Stack: EMR, Glue, Redshift, Athena, S3, Lambda, ECS
- Data Orchestration & Pipelines: Airflow, Dataform
- Data Formats & Modelling: Iceberg, JSON, XML, CSV, Data Modelling
- Programming & DevOps: Python, SQL, Git, GitHub Actions, Team City, Jenkins, Octopus Unix shell scripting
- ETL & Ingestion: File ingress/egress solutions in AWS
- Security and Observability: DevSecOps, Artifactory, Observability tooling
- Testing & Automation: test automation frameworks, Jupyter Notebooks
- Familiarity with data warehousing and build experience in Teradata, Oracle
- Experience in visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Tableau
- Familiarity and experience with Agile processes
- AWS Data Engineer Associate certification
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office.
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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