Commonwealth Bank

Financial Services

PrincipalDataEngineer

A$250–350k ~AI est. Melbourne, Australia; Perth, Australia; Australia FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Principal Data Engineer at Commonwealth Bank. Skills: Data Engineering, Cloud technologies, Data platforms. Understand customers' core business objectives. Deliver quality data centric solutions”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Solving complex problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years experience, Prior experience in financial services, SQL expertise, RDBMS experience

Nice to Have

Experience with Agile working practices, Prior experience in design & building financial reporting data products

What You'll Do.

Understand customers' core business objectives

Deliver quality data centric solutions

Contribute to thought leadership

Champion sustainable data assets

Design group data assets

Integrate diverse data

Promote best coding standards

Collaborate with stakeholders

Work without supervision

Identify technical debt

Build fit for purpose solutions

Perform well with large data

Understand development cycle

Follow Change Management processes

Generate new ways of doing things

Support new ways of doing things

Improve data products

Strategize data pipelines

Design data pipelines

Implement data pipelines

Enable data predictions

Enable reporting analysis

Enable visualization analysis

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Distributed teams; Business stakeholders; Delivery stakeholders

Communication Scope

Communicating with stakeholders

Process & Methodology

Agile

Full Job Description

**Principal Data Engineer** * **You are** passionate about solving complex problem with the latest tech * ** _We 're_** _the largest and most advanced Data Engineering teams in the country._ * **Together we** b _uild tomorrow’s bank with world class engineering_ **Do work that matters** We're building tomorrow's bank today — and that takes creative, diverse engineers who want to push boundaries, work at scale, and solve complex data‑driven challenges that matter. As a Principal Data engineer with expertise in data engineering, you’ll work at the forefront of regulatory reporting technology, delivering critical solutions that support regulatory compliance and the Bank’s global ambitions. If you’re motivated by scale, complexity, and purpose this role is built for you. Here, you’ll be part of a team of engineers going above and beyond to improve the standard of digital banking using the latest technology to solve the Banks and customers complex data-centric problems. **See yourself in our team** This role sits within the Capital, Climate & Regulatory Reporting Crew, where we design and deliver technology solutions that ensure the CBA Groups compliance to Regulatory capital, Climate disclosures and Regulatory reporting through the design, development, maintenance and optimization of the regulatory calculations and solution. As a Principal Data Engineer, you’ll be an integral member of our Engineering practice. Your role will be to lead and guide a team of engineers collaborating across a wide range of business and technical stakeholders to deliver a transformative and strategic data platform initiative to meet current and future crew requirements We are seeking an outstanding Principal Data Engineer to join our team and help shape the reporting solutions that we are building As a Principal Data Engineer, you - * Work with the team to understand our customers' core business objectives and deliver quality data centric solutions within committed timeframes * Contribute to

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