Security Data Platform Leader & Cloud Architect

Commonwealth Bank; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Chapter Lead / Senior Engineering Manager for the Group Security Data Engineering team in Melbourne. You will lead a sizeable team of data engineers and partners, shaping a cloud-first data platform and security analytics capabilities across the group.

You'll drive data architecture, platform design and engineering excellence, guiding migrations from legacy systems to modern AWS-based data environments, while maintaining a strong focus on security, reliability and

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading and developing data engineering teams, including coaching senior technical professionals.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale data platforms, data products or analytics solutions.
• Strong expertise in data architecture, data modelling, data integration and platform design.
• Practical experience designing and delivering data solutions using AWS data services and systems.
• Experience leading complex platform transformation or migration initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of modern data engineering practices, distributed processing and cloud-native platforms.
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex technical decisions clearly.
• A strong risk, security, reliability and operational excellence mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of data engineers, creating an inclusive, accountable and collaborative engineering culture.
• Define and execute the engineering strategy for Group Security data platforms and products.
• Lead the migration of data capabilities from legacy platforms to a modern cloud-based data environment.
• Provide technical leadership across data architecture, modelling, integration, platform design and engineering standards.
• Oversee the delivery of secure, resilient and scalable data pipelines, services and reusable data products.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, testing, observability, CI/CD and operational discipline.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Cloud data platforms

AWS data services

Data architecture

Data modelling

CI/CD automation

Stakeholder communication

Security mindset

Tools

Snowflake

Python

SQL

Spark

EMR

Glue

Redshift

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Chapter Lead / Senior Engineering Manager for the Group Security Data Engineering team in Melbourne. You will lead a sizeable team of data engineers and partners, shaping a cloud-first data platform and security analytics capabilities across the group.

You'll drive data architecture, platform design and engineering excellence, guiding migrations from legacy systems to modern AWS-based data environments, while maintaining a strong focus on security, reliability and