Principal Engineer
Commonwealth BankAbout the role
Principal Software Engineer
You are collaborative and enjoy solving problems to help our team to reach highest potential
We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking
Together we can build state-of-the-art solutions for people
Do work that matters
The Workflow Crew is responsible for driving the architecture, design, build and governance roadmap across the group for various workflow technologies. This is your opportunity to join an established company where there is a focus on personal and professional development.
As an organisation, we foster an innovative, dynamic culture and a genuine commitment to drive diversity and inclusion. As Principal Software Engineer Workflow, you will be responsible for ongoing change and development for the workflow solutions and provide technology oversight to different business units.
See yourself in our team
As a Principal Engineer, you will help to 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. You’ll use your skills in leading the engineers and implementing complex workflow solutions in a cloud-based environment. You’ll have 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.
You will foster an environment of engineering excellence and a culture of ongoing improvement. You will support critical programs of work by designing and implementing solutions for business driven initiatives and technology uplift as part of Workflow Crew. You will enjoy working in a hybrid agile development environment, running workshops and sprint ceremonies.
We’re Interested In Hearing From People Who
Design and deliver innovative technical solutions to strategic business problems
Collaborate with a team of high performing engineers to build and deploy multiple technology solutions that will help in defining current and future states, as well as the roadmap
Have demonstrated experience in translating the project vision into actionable plans and iterative delivery.
Constructively challenges the status quo while influencing stakeholders at various levels
Influences the future of the Group's technology and direction every day
Applies thought leadership in software and API architecture and sets the direction for future software development and API strategies using AWS Gateways
Demonstrates awareness of emerging security threats and takes measures to safeguard against them.
Establish new ways of working and promote DevOps culture of CI/CD pipelines and Automation supported by world-class tools
Have expertise in managing any workflow based technical environments (preferably Pega, Appian)
Technical Skills
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We do not expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these, or a willing to learn these skillsets (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team
Demonstrated experience with the architecture and design and development of Platform – Infrastructure as code.
Strong development experience using programming languages such as C# or Java
Excellent knowledge of Microservices – Cloud Native integrations patterns, design and implementation, complaint network flows, security zoning etc.
Various hosting patterns like Paas, SaaS, AWS, Azure. – Eks, Kubernetes etc.
Cloud domain knowledge in AWS
Proficient at Data Architecture and working with other larger volume in data - ingestion, transformation, and consumption patterns. – RDBMS, SQL, Postgres etc.
Understanding of AI model lifecycle, including training, deployment, and monitoring and exposure to AI frameworks or cloud-based AI services (e.g., Azure AI, AWS SageMaker).
Experience in telemetry and setup monitoring and Alerting on industry standard tooling- Observe, Obstack, Pagerduty.
Ability to build CI/CD pipelines using Git.
Innovates management practices that facilitate seamless collaboration and efficiency across thousands of engineers.
Orchestrates complex workflows through automation scripts, managing the deployment lifecycle of interconnected infrastructure components.
Designing, documenting and presenting formal solution designs. Agile & Scrum Knowledge preferred
Good understanding of a Workflow stack- Pega/App
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