Staff Data Engineer (AWS, Postgres) at Commonwealth Bank | Sydney, New South Wales, AUS | Rezi

Staff Data Engineer (AWS, Postgres) at Commonwealth Bank

Staff Data Engineer (AWS, Postgres)

Commonwealth Bank · Sydney, New South Wales, AUS

Yesterday

Staff Data Engineer (AWS, Postgres)

Commonwealth Bank · Sydney, New South Wales, AUS

a day ago
Resume preview

Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

As a Staff Data Engineer, you will work at the forefront of Product Control technology, delivering critical solutions that support the Bank’s global ambitions. You will lead and guide a team of engineers, collaborating across business and technical stakeholders to deliver a strategic data platform initiative.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deliver a new cloud data solution to transform Product Control technology requirements.
  • Lead the design and delivery of cost-effective, scalable data solutions aligned with strategic goals.
  • 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.
  • Provide technical data governance and risk management.
  • Lead a team of data engineers, providing technical guidance, reviewing work, and mentoring team members.
  • Define and implement engineering standards, including data modelling, ingestion, transformation, and egression patterns.
  • Collaborate across teams to ensure secure, efficient, and well-documented solutions.
  • Learn and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the team.

Requirements

  • Experience in designing, building, and delivering greenfield data solutions in AWS Cloud using cloud-native technologies.
  • Experience producing data products or data assets with proper data quality assurance and security controls.
  • Passionate technology leaders who are hands-on in designing, problem-solving, and taking ownership.
  • Strong solution design capabilities, stakeholder engagement, and leadership in technical decisions.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Commendable experience in driving cost-effective and technologically feasible solutions.
  • Ability to steer solution decisions across the group to meet operational and strategic goals.
  • Provides thought leadership and contributes to the design of technical solutions and patterns.
  • Ability to engage and manage engineers, internal stakeholders, and external suppliers.
  • Problem-solving mindset with a focus on automation and continuous process improvement.

Skills

  • Data ingestion
  • Data integration
  • Data pipeline solutions
  • Data Architecture
  • Data modelling techniques
  • Data governance
  • Data lineage
  • Technical metadata
  • Data quality
  • Reconciliation
  • Platform efficiency through automation and AI
  • AWS Data Stack (EMR, Glue, Redshift, Athena, S3, Lambda, ECS)
  • Data Orchestration & Pipelines (Airflow, Dataform)
  • Data Formats & Modelling (Iceberg, JSON, XML, CSV)
  • Programming (Python, SQL)
  • DevOps (Git, GitHub Actions, Unix shell scripting)
  • ETL & Ingestion
  • Security and Observability (DevSecOps, Artifactory, Observability tooling)
  • Solution design
  • Technical specifications
  • Testing & Automation (test automation frameworks, Jupyter Notebooks)
  • CI/CD Tools (GitHub Actions, Team City, Jenkins, Octopus)
  • SQL scripting
  • Postgres
  • Data warehousing
  • Teradata
  • Oracle
  • Visualisation tools (PowerBI, Tableau)
  • Automation skills (testing, data ingestion, APIs, file transfers)

Location

  • Melbourne
  • Perth

Work Type

  • Flexible work locations
  • At least half their time each month connecting in office
  • Changing start and finish times
  • Part-time arrangements
  • Job share

Experience Level

  • Staff

About the Company

  • We're the largest and most advanced Data Engineering teams in the country.
  • We're building tomorrow’s bank today with world-class engineering.
  • Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace.
  • We're driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy.
  • Making a positive impact for customers, communities, and each other is part of our every day.
  • We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done.