Staff Data Engineer: Build a Modern Data Platform

Commonwealth Bank; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank seeks a Staff Data Engineer to shape a modern data platform and lead engineering initiatives. You will build trusted data products using Snowflake, dbt and AWS, mentor teams and influence platform direction for tangible business outcomes.

This role focuses on platform modernisation, automated delivery, engineering quality and use-case-led adoption across Bankwest's federated environment.

Qualifications

• Experience migrating on-premises platforms to cloud environments.
• Hands-on design and development of reliable, scalable data pipelines with good test coverage.
• Experience with core data design, preparation, transformation and load concepts.
• Strong SQL and experience with a modern distributed data platform (e.g., Snowflake, AWS).
• Experience with transformation and engineering tools such as dbt, Python, Git and automated deployments.
• Hands-on data engineering in a DevSecOps context with automated testing and observability.
• Ability to isolate complex problems and deliver incrementally in an agile environment.
• Experience mentoring engineers without formal people leadership.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk and AppDynamics.
• Hands-on AWS Cloud services such as EMR, EC2, S3, and auto-scaling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable data pipelines and reusable data products across distributed data platforms.
• Apply strong data modelling, transformation and integration practices to make data reliable, well governed and fit for purpose.
• Take end-to-end ownership of data assets in production, including testing, monitoring, operational support and the resolution of critical issues.
• Work with product, analytics, data science and business stakeholders to understand high-value use cases and translate them into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Strengthen continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, automation, code quality and secure software engineering across the platform.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers and influence standards, patterns, roadmaps and platform direction.
• Identify and address technical debt, delivery risks and opportunities to improve platform resilience and maintainability.
• Explore how emerging technology, including AI-assisted engineering, can support modernisation and better ways of working.

Skills

Data engineering

Snowflake

dbt

AWS

SQL

Python

Git

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Observability

Mentoring

Splunk

AppDynamics

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Python

Git

AWS

Job description

Commonwealth Bank seeks a Staff Data Engineer to shape a modern data platform and lead engineering initiatives. You will build trusted data products using Snowflake, dbt and AWS, mentor teams and influence platform direction for tangible business outcomes.

This role focuses on platform modernisation, automated delivery, engineering quality and use-case-led adoption across Bankwest's federated environment.