Principal Software Engineer

2 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Commonwealth Bank Full time $180,000 - $250,000 per year

Principal Software Engineer

  • You are collaborative and enjoy solving problems to help our team to reach highest potential

  • We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking

  • Together we can build state-of-the-art solutions for people

Do work that matters

The Workflow Crew is responsible for driving the architecture, design, build and governance roadmap across the group for various workflow technologies. This is your opportunity to join an established company where there is a focus on personal and professional development.

As an organisation, we foster an innovative, dynamic culture and a genuine commitment to drive diversity and inclusion. As Principal Software Engineer Workflow, you will be responsible for ongoing change and development for the workflow solutions and provide technology oversight to different business units.

See yourself in our team

As a Principal Engineer, you will help to shape the future of our digital platform while focusing on designing, developing, and deploying innovative technology solutions that will enable us to build tomorrow's bank today. You'll use your skills in leading the engineers and implementing complex workflow solutions in a cloud-based environment. You'll have a strong risk mindset in ensuring that appropriate cyber security controls are implemented and play a significant mentoring role in providing technical assistance to the engineers in the team.

You will foster an environment of engineering excellence and a culture of ongoing improvement. You will support critical programs of work by designing and implementing solutions for business driven initiatives and technology uplift as part of Workflow Crew. You will enjoy working in a hybrid agile development environment, running workshops and sprint ceremonies.

We're Interested In Hearing From People Who

  • Design and deliver innovative technical solutions to strategic business problems

  • Collaborate with a team of high performing engineers to build and deploy multiple technology solutions that will help in defining current and future states, as well as the roadmap

  • Have demonstrated experience in translating the project vision into actionable plans and iterative delivery.

  • Constructively challenges the status quo while influencing stakeholders at various levels

  • Influences the future of the Group's technology and direction every day

  • Applies thought leadership in software and API architecture and sets the direction for future software development and API strategies using AWS Gateways

  • Demonstrates awareness of emerging security threats and takes measures to safeguard against them.

  • Establish new ways of working and promote DevOps culture of CI/CD pipelines and Automation supported by world-class tools

  • Have expertise in managing any workflow based technical environments (preferably Pega, Appian)

Technical Skills
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We do not expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these, or a willing to learn these skillsets (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team

  • Demonstrated experience with the architecture and design and development of Platform – Infrastructure as code.

  • Strong development experience using  programming languages such as C# or Java

  • Excellent knowledge of Microservices – Cloud Native integrations patterns, design and implementation, complaint network flows, security zoning etc.

  • Various hosting patterns like Paas, SaaS, AWS, Azure. – Eks, Kubernetes etc.

  • Cloud domain knowledge in AWS

  • Proficient at Data Architecture and working with other larger volume in data -  ingestion, transformation, and consumption patterns. – RDBMS, SQL, Postgres etc.

  • Understanding of AI model lifecycle, including training, deployment, and monitoring and exposure to AI frameworks or cloud-based AI services (e.g., Azure AI, AWS SageMaker).

  • Experience in telemetry and setup monitoring and Alerting on industry standard tooling- Observe, Obstack, Pagerduty. 

  • Ability to build CI/CD pipelines using Git.

  • Innovates management practices that facilitate seamless collaboration and efficiency across thousands of engineers.

  • Orchestrates complex workflows through automation scripts, managing the deployment lifecycle of interconnected infrastructure components.

  • Designing, documenting and presenting formal solution designs. Agile & Scrum Knowledge preferred

  • Good understanding of a Workflow stack-  Pega/Appian

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 really love working here, and we think you will too. 

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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