Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Senior Software Engineer- Ab Initio
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Senior Software Engineer - Ab initio
- You are experienced in software engineering with a passion for leadership
- We are a team of big thinkers, who love to push boundaries and create innovative solutions
- Together we can create industry leading digital solutions that impact millions of customers
Do work that matters!
We're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.
Here, you'll have the chance to bring your passion to life by working with the latest technology on ground-breaking projects that deliver a seamless and unmatched customer experience
See yourself in our team
You’ll be joining our Software Engineering - Fraud and Scam Chapter. Essentially, you’ll be designing and coding for our applications, playing a pivotal role in safeguarding our customers from the ever-evolving landscape of fraud and scams.
You’ll be working in the exciting world of “staying ahead of fraudsters and scammers”, supporting the design & development of cutting-edge technologies to automate scams and digital intrusion alerts. With a focus on building high TPS low latency applications you’ll be developing API’s and applications using Abinitio.
We’re interested in hearing from people who:
- Have solid hands-on experience of data engineering/ETL principles and practices with Unix/Linux, SQL, Ab Initio and other data integration tools and frameworks.
- Are confident demonstrating coding, design, debugging and problem-solving skills
- Have ability to mentor and provide technical assistance to team members.
- Mindset to apply and promote industry best patterns and practices.
- Experience in developing and deploying high quality software solutions with comprehensive test coverage without supervision.
- Experience with estimating development effort for new features
- Ability to lead Level 3 or above support and technical troubleshooting activity.
Tech Skills
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team.
- Demonstrated hands-on programming experience in Ab Initio GDE and related products and shell scripting. Background with both Batch and continuous flows is highly regarded.
- Experience with RDBMS (Oracle) concepts and using SQL, Stored Procedures and packages.
- Experience working on real-time applications using either MQs, REST APIs, TCP or Kafka.
- Exposure to Agile working environment and DevOps roles.
- CI/CD concepts and ability to create pipelines in Jenkins, TeamCity, Ab Initio EME or Github Actions.
- Coding with Python or Java preferred, not a must have.
- AWS Cloud hosting knowledge
Working with us
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.
Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.
If this the role you are looking for, please do apply.
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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