Data Engineer

P&N Bank; Western Australia; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Education assistance

Mentoring and leadership programs

Discounts on banking products

Job summary

P&N Bank is seeking a Data Engineer to strengthen its Financial Crime Maturity Program. You will build data products that support customer risk assessment, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud detection, and regulatory reporting.

This hands-on role emphasizes modern data platforms, cloud technologies, data governance, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams to deliver practical, compliant solutions for financial crime risks.

Qualifications

• At least four years' experience in Data Engineering or related technical disciplines.
• Experience designing and supporting production-grade data pipelines.
• Strong SQL capability.
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, Java, or Go.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse).
• Experience with modern data engineering tools (DBT, Airflow, Dagster, Fivetran, Airbyte, AWS DMS).
• Understanding of data governance concepts including lineage and metadata.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Exposure to AML/CTF, fraud prevention, or financial crime tech is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data pipelines that support financial crime use cases.
• Develop curated datasets for risk management, investigations, reporting, and analytics.
• Integrate data from banking systems, payment platforms, apps, and third‑party providers.
• Implement data quality controls and maintain data lineage across systems and reports.
• Support customer risk models, detection rules, monitoring scenarios, and analytical features.
• Contribute to governance of critical data assets and privacy/security compliance.

Skills

SQL

Python

Scala/Java/Go

Cloud platforms

Tools

DBT

Airflow

Dagster

Fivetran

Airbyte

AWS DMS

Job description

This role is a full-time, 12month maximum term contract and sits within the Financial Crime Maturity Program and plays a critical part in strengthening how the Bank uses data to detect, assess and manage financial crime risks.

As a Data Engineer, you'll build and maintain the data products that underpin key financial crime capabilities. Your work will support customer risk assessment, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud detection, investigations, regulatory reporting and operational insights.

This is a hands‑on engineering role with strong exposure to modern data platforms, cloud technologies, data governance, and financial crime transformation initiatives.

Working as part of an inclusive and collaborative team your key responsibilities will include:

• Design and build scalable data pipelines that support financial crime and fraud use cases.
• Develop curated datasets that provide trusted information for risk management, investigations, reporting and analytics.
• Integrate data from banking systems, payment platforms, customer applications, transaction monitoring tools, screening systems, APIs, SaaS solutions, and third-party providers.
• Implement data quality controls to ensure accuracy, completeness and traceability.
• Create and maintain data lineage across source systems, transformations, reports and regulatory outputs.
• Support the development of customer risk models, detection rules, monitoring scenarios and analytical features.
• Contribute to the governance of critical financial crime data assets and ensure compliance with privacy and security requirements.
• Monitor and optimise pipeline performance, reliability and scalability.
• Work closely with Financial Crime, Fraud, Technology, Data and Risk teams to deliver practical solutions that meet business and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to documentation, technical design artefacts, engineering standards and operational support activities.

What sets you up for success

• At least four years' experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a similar technical discipline.
• Experience designing and supporting production-grade data pipelines.
• Strong SQL capability.
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, Java, or Go.
• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, or Synapse.
• Experience with modern data engineering tools such as DBT, Airflow, Dagster, Fivetran, Airbyte, AWS DMS, or similar technologies.
• A practical understanding of data governance concepts, including lineage, data quality, metadata management, and critical data elements.
• Experience implementing data quality controls and resolving data issues in complex environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, source control, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong communication skills and an ability to work effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Exposure to AML/CTF, fraud prevention, customer risk assessment, transaction monitoring, regulatory reporting, or financial crime technology platforms will be particularly valuable.

What we can offer you

There’s life at work, and life outside of work – and we understand that. That’s why we offer an extensive range of employee benefits.

• Enjoy flexible work arrangements.
• Be supported with leadership and professional development, such as education assistance, mentoring, and emerging leadership programs.
• Generous discounts on home loans, personal loans, insurance and other banking products and services.
• An incentive scheme for exceptional performance, up to two weeks’ additional purchased leave per year, and novated lease program.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for the primary care giver, and three weeks for the non-primary care giver.
• Two days’ paid volunteer leave each year to use with a community partner of your choice.
• Employee social clubs in our Perth and Coffs Harbour corporate offices.

About us

Are you looking for a career with endless opportunities? There’s more to us than banking. We are a competitive Australian retail bank with customer‑centricity at the heart of everything we do.

P&N Group is amongst the largest customer‑owned banking organisations in Australia, represented by P&N Bank in Western Australia and BCU Bank in New South Wales and southeast Queensland. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of our customers and their communities.

Our culture is the sum of how we do things – and we believe it’s a real point of difference. Our culture is shaped by each and every one of us and by joining us, you will shape it too. We empower our people, mistakes are seen as an opportunity to learn, and we encourage diverse thinking. We are driven by a shared purpose and come together to build a workplace of trust and belonging for all.

We continue to transform, shape, and develop the products, services, digital tools, and experience we offer our customers of today and tomorrow. To help us achieve our ambitious plans, we’re looking for talented individuals to join our teams across all three states and all areas of our organisation.

What does our recruitment process look like?

The process can include a phone screen, virtual and/or face‑to‑face interview, psychometric testing, reference checks, and all relevant background checks.

At P&N Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive employee experience and better understanding the needs of our customers. We support this through employee networks, flexible work options, mentoring and initiatives that strengthen inclusion and cultural understanding across the organisation. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences. This includes people who identify as LGBTQIA+, people with disability and/or who are neurodivergent, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all genders, ages and cultural backgrounds.

To find out more about what it’s like to work with us, visit https://www.pnbank.com.au/about/careers/, or meet some of our people here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae8tyBGYofI.

The closing date for applications is 16th October 2026.

(Please note that candidate screening and interviews may be completed prior to advertisement closure date.)