Senior Platform Engineer

This is a Senior Platform Engineer role with Commonwealth Bank based in Sydney, NSW, AU
== Commonwealth Bank ==

Role Seniority - senior

More about the Senior Platform Engineer role at Commonwealth Bank

• You are passionate about AI and working to deliver better outcomes for our customers, employees and the wider community

• We are world leaders in AI ambition

• Together, we will innovate the future of banking with state-of-the-art AI Powered Engineering solutions

See yourself in our team

As part of the Business Banking Technology team we ensure that CommBank has a world-class engineering capability and is at the forefront of technology, using innovative and emerging technology to help our customer and support our Group Strategy.

In this role

As a Senior Platform Engineer within the Business Banking Gen AI team, you will be working alongside CommBank's global engineering community to use AI assisted tools and capabilities to build and support business banking functionality.

Here you will be building and supporting platforms that are data-driven and customer-centric, fostering that culture within the Group.

This role will also include an on-call requirement rotating on a weekly basis within the team to own resolution of any critical issues, ensuring the seamless operation of our systems, products and platforms.

Key responsibilities also include but not limited to:

• Experimenting with emerging AI assisted engineering tools and cloud services, providing feedback and insights from real world testing

• Building platforms and tools to meet the highest possible quality standards while simultaneously balancing security, performance, availability, and maintainability concerns

• Collaborating with the team to tackle complex technical problems, contributing to design and implementation to ensure quality engineering outcomes

• Delivering robust and reusable solutions that integrate seamlessly into other teams' workflows and products

• Actively participating in code reviews, maintain high quality code bases and assist in documentation for knowledge sharing

• Work on cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment and addressing inter-dependencies

We are interested in hearing from people who have:

• Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing scalable, maintainable and reliable platforms

• Working knowledge of AI/ML and Gen AI applications and how they can enhance platform engineering processes to improve productivity

• Exposure supporting RAGs using LlamaIndex, LangChain, or similar frameworks. 

• Exposure supporting Agentic AI systems using AutoGen, SemanticKernel, Pydantic, or similar frameworks is preferred

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript or C#) and experience supporting microservices architecture on cloud platforms (AWS & Azure)

• A keen interest in researching new AI tooling and you are a daily user of AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Continue, GitHub CoPilot, Aider, Cline, etc. 

• Knowledge or exposure in Anthropic Claude, Llama, LiteLLM, Cursor, windsurf / Codeium, VO Vercel, Continue, Aider, Cline, Langchain, Langgraph, Hugging Face will be highly desirable

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with stakeholders to solve business-critical problems

Working with us:

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career here is for you. At CommBank, we advocate and facilitate a culture of inclusion and respect, celebrating all cultures, abilities, genders, expressions of gender and sexual orientation. Read more about our commitment to inclusion and diversity on our careers website.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace. We are working hard to recruit people who represent the diversity of our customers and our society. If you're excited about this opportunity but you don't meet every single requirement, or your experience doesn't align perfectly, we still want to encourage you to send in your application. You may just be the perfect candidate for this opportunity or another within CommBank.

At CommBank we will inspire you with work that makes a difference, surround you with talented people that respect and value each other, and empower you to grow professionally and personally. Most of all, making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

We're determined to make a real difference for Australia's first peoples. We encourage all interested applicants to apply. If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including BankWest), 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.

APPLY NOW to do your best work and live your best life with us

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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Before we jump into the responsibilities of the role. No matter what you come in knowing, you'll be learning new things all the time and the Commonwealth Bank team will be there to support your growth.

Please consider applying even if you don't meet 100% of what's outlined

Key Responsibilities

• Experimenting with AI tools
• Building platforms
• Collaborating on technical problems

Key Strengths

• AI/ML knowledge
• Programming proficiency
• Platform design experience
• AI tooling research
• Collaboration skills
• Exposure to AI frameworks

Why Commonwealth Bank is partnering with Hatch on this role. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that's right for them. So when you apply you have the chance to show more than just your resume.

A Final Note: This is a role with Commonwealth Bank not with Hatch.

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