Principal Platform Engineer Full Time

At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title: Principal Platform Engineer

Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team: This role is part of the Sales and CRM Crew within ITB Domain in Institutional Banking, where we deliver cutting-edge technology solutions that serve business & institutional customers across our relationship managed customer segments of the bank. Our mission is to empower businesses to thrive using the technology of tomorrow. By leveraging digital tools, our Crew aims to elevate the customer experience and deliver exceptional products and services.

Impact & Contribution: As a Principal Engineer, you will play a pivotal role within our team. You’ll bring your expertise in technology and Digital knowledge to define technical strategies and design innovative solutions for complex challenges within a business unit. Your approach will integrate a strong focus on risk management and security from the earliest stages of development. Additionally, you’ll mentor and guide engineers, fostering excellence in their craft and enabling them to deliver world-class applications.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Will 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.
• Have experience with AWS, Salesforce Core, Financial Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud, and understand how these tools can be used to build and lead teams through complex multiyear builds.
• Experience in system engineering including Restful APIs (and SOAP), Kafka streaming, Legacy methods such as MQ and MFT, System adaptation, payload/protocol transformation and orchestration such as temporal.
• Use skills to lead our engineers in implementing complex technical solutions in a SaaS and cloud-based environment. You’ll possess 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.
• Enjoy and have demonstrable experience building enterprise software
• Have a broad technology background with engineering as a core competency
• Have real world experience of building and leading teams who operate in the DevSecOps model.
• Have experience of addressing Tech Debt using a commercially focused and pragmatic approach.
• Have identified, gained support and ensured execution of technical direction and strategy
• Can design and implement solutions to complex problems, including onboarding and migrating to new tooling as well as removing obsolete systems and code.
• Encourages risk-taking and constructively challenges the status quo while influencing stakeholders and building diverse and inclusive teams.

Technology Skills:

• 15+ years of relevant hands-on work experience in software development
• Thorough understanding of large-scale distributed systems, solution design and architecture principles
• Experience with Salesforce Core and Marketing Cloud is essential, along with a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks.
• Ability to design solutions to meet the highest possible quality standards while simultaneously balancing security, performance, availability, and maintainability concerns
• Developing 3-tier application both on-premises and on cloud covering:
• Integration of our digital platform with Salesforce CRM and Marketing application is crucial in developing scalable and efficient applications.
• Expertise in Setting up DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, logging and monitoring tools (GitHub, GitHub Actions , TeamCity, Octopus, Artifactory, Snyk and SonarQube)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Frontend: React and Redux (preferred) or Angular/Vue/Svelte etc. Javascript and/or Typescript.
• Backend: Java and Python (preferred) or Go, .Net etc.
• APIs & Database: SQL and NoSQL experience (both admin and usage).
• Microservices design and implementation of highly scalable APIs. Solid technical background in building and designing data integration, microservices and workflow automation on cloud platforms using AWS
• Mentoring and coaching other Engineers, in the use of Full Stack, Salesforce Core and Marketing Cloud to deliver world-class applications is a key responsibility
• Configuration Management.
• Containerisation.

Education Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.

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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