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

Target Resume Now

About the Role

As the Principal Software Engineer for the Credit Risk Profile Squad within Customer Data Services, you will play a key role in establishing a new service and building the APIs, data products, and engineering capabilities that support credit decisioning across the Bank. This is an opportunity to lead an AI-first squad from a strong existing foundation, using GenAI as a differentiator while also driving real-time streaming, platform modernization, and resilient delivery in a critical credit-risk data domain.

Responsibilities

Lead a squad focused on building a cloud-based service domain with reusable APIs, data products, and event-driven capabilities.
Partner closely with an Executive Product Manager to lead a team of engineers across Sydney and Bengaluru to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable outcomes.
Define the engineering direction for the Credit Risk Profile squad, including target-state architecture, domain ownership, and technical roadmap.
Establish reusable APIs and data products that support credit-risk decisioning across the Bank.
Leverage CommBank's foundational GenAI tooling to create innovative, governed solutions for credit-risk use cases.
Champion streaming-first engineering using Apache Flink and modern event-driven architecture patterns.
Drive legacy asset modernization and migration into scalable, service-oriented platforms.
Support the Crew Tech Lead by lifting engineering capability through technical leadership, coaching, and consistent engineering practices.
Partner with product, architecture, and engineering teams to improve resilience, delivery flow, and customer outcomes, with clear ownership for operating the services the squad builds.

Requirements

Highly technical engineering leader who combines deep expertise in distributed systems, data platforms, with expertise in modern software engineering and AI-enabled delivery.
Led full-cycle engineering in a “you build it, you run it” environment, with experience designing, building, deploying, and operating software at scale.
Deep technical expertise across distributed systems, data platforms, and streaming-first architecture, ideally including Apache Flink.
Built or modernized microservice-based platforms using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and well-designed REST APIs.
Comfortable contributing code while setting high standards for engineering practices, code quality, patterns, and architecture.
Practical experience applying AI or GenAI in product, engineering, or decisioning environments, with sound judgment around governance, safety, and business value.
Understand how to design and evolve service domains, reusable APIs, and data products in a structured, domain-led architecture.
Can lead modernization and migration work across legacy and target-state platforms with clear ownership, risk awareness, and delivery discipline.

Skills

Distributed systems
Data platforms
Modern software engineering
AI-enabled delivery
Streaming-first architecture
Apache Flink
Microservice-based platforms
Java
Spring Boot
AWS
Kubernetes (EKS)
REST APIs
GenAI
Event-driven architecture

Location

Sydney
Bengaluru

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Principal
Lead

About the Company

A team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking.
Building tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation.
Recognised as a leader in digital, engineering, data and AI, investing in modern platforms, cloud, microservice-based service domains and data products that help shape the future of banking.
A place to bring your ambition and grow, belong, and shape what’s next in one of Australia’s most significant technology transformations.
Driving enterprise-wide transformation at CommBank.
Corporate Technology delivers the platforms, enterprise data and critical systems that power the Bank's Operations and Corporate functions.
Collaborate across diverse teams, solve complex technology challenges and help shape the future of one of Australia's leading organisations.

Equal Opportunity

Committed to creating an accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace.
If you require support or adjustments, please let us know.
Welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
Particularly committed to making a positive difference for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users.
Want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696.