Commonwealth Bank

Staff Data Engineer

Commonwealth Bank
Posted 10/22/2026full-timeMelbourne • AustraliaLeadWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building scalable data pipelines using AWS services, including S3, EMR, Glue, and Lambda, while ensuring data quality and reliability. Proven ability to lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and influence engineering standards across teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords
AWS Data ServicesData Pipeline EngineeringPython ProgrammingCI/CD PracticesTechnical Leadership

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSCloudPySparkPythonSparkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Set technical direction for complex data engineering initiatives and influence architecture and standards across multiple squads
  • Design, build and evolve scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Spark, Airflow and AWS Glue
  • Build cloud-native data solutions across AWS, including S3, EMR, Glue, Lambda, Redshift and SageMaker
  • Engineer high-quality data products and evolve enterprise data platform and data marketplace patterns
  • Lead engineering practices across testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability and production reliability
  • Establish patterns for data quality, resilience, performance and maintainability across distributed data workloads
  • Mentor engineers, support technical decision-making and raise data engineering capability across teams
  • Partner with Architecture, Product, Security and data consumers to translate complex requirements into pragmatic engineering solutions

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experienced data engineer with deep technical capability and a track record of influencing engineering beyond the immediate team
  • Strong experience across AWS data services, particularly S3, EMR, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, SageMaker or comparable cloud technologies
  • Experience with Snowflake, enterprise-scale data platforms, data products or data marketplace patterns
  • Strong experience with Python and PySpark
  • Experience designing and operating batch and streaming pipelines using Airflow, Spark and Glue
  • Experience with CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure-as-code
  • Experience with observability, monitoring and reliability engineering for production data platforms and pipelines
  • Advanced SQL and strong experience with relational database technologies
  • Technical leadership across architecture and design, including mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards across teams

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace
  • Workplace support and adjustments for accessibility needs
  • Career development opportunity within the Commonwealth Bank Group

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Hard Skills
Data EngineeringBatch ProcessingStreaming DataSQLPySpark
Soft Skills
MentoringCollaborationTechnical Decision-Making
Tools & Technologies
SparkAirflowAWS GlueRedshiftSageMaker
Industry Keywords
Data QualityObservabilityInfrastructure-as-CodeData MarketplaceEnterprise Data Platforms