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Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Staff Software Engineer - Java

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is hiring a Staff Software Engineer - Java in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

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  • On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • The posting mentions Java, Cloud and api design among its tools and skills.
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Lead software engineering initiatives to design and implement robust payment platforms and APIs at CommBank.

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Organization:

At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.


Job Title: Staff Software Engineer - Payments Platform

Location: Bangalore


Business & Team:

Enterprise Services (ES) is responsible for the world leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of CommBank, from innovative product platforms for our customers to essential tools within our business. We also use technology to drive efficient and timely processing, an essential component of great customer service. CommBank is recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. The Payments Platform team resides in the Payments Technology, and its purpose is to restore the trust of our customers by transforming the Payments services experiences provided by the Bank to 99.999% availability, greater agility and reliability.

Our team is composed of engineers and technology leaders, who bring in the right mix of skills to enable this transformation. We also work very closely with our business and operations colleagues to support these services which are critical to the Australian and Global economy. Our team is also responsible for driving Engineering Governance, Continuous Delivery and key technological simplification pillars such as Cloud and Payments Event based architecture.


Impact & Contribution:

As a Staff Software Engineer within Payments Technology – Payments Platform, you will be responsible for implementing the designs within your application to align to Payments Reference Architecture. Specifically, as a Staff Software Engineer, you are expected to develop solutions and guide design to drive outcomes across the Core Product Systems within Payments Platform. You are responsible for design analysis and the estimation process from Business Case, ideation, discovery and

inception phases


Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement BIAN APIs and specifications
  • Lead high performing API and Cloud Engineering team
  • Ownership and governance of solution designs
  • Adopt a ‘Design to Run’ mentality to architect robust solutions that are fully supportable in a production environment
  • Provide developmental advice and consult for business case/ideation, discovery, inception and enhancement requests by examining current vs target architectures ensuring align with ES strategy and architecture standards
  • Collaborate with Solution Architecture and functional SME’s to prototype solutions to explore alternatives, seeking simple & standard solutions with a low cost of ownership
  • Collaborate with upstream and downstream system representatives to ensure an integrated end to end solution is delivered to achieve the desired outcomes
  • Proactively seek opportunities for continuous improvement of Core Product systems and data to leverage existing capabilities
  • Work with senior technical and business management teams in identifying issues of current state architecture, developing target state architecture with the ability to communicate the features and benefits
  • Effectively lead and influence business partners, peers, team members and vendors• Identifies and engages stakeholders, including architecture disciplines, asset owners, delivery owner, business stakeholders and SMEs to ensure architecture is optimal, and has the greatest chance of success
  • Effectively challenges business leaders to obtain the best technology solutions and fit with ES strategy

Education Qualification: 10-12 Years of experience in building rest APIs, Well versed with deploying application to Web Server preferably WebSphere, Experienced in creating CI-CD pipelines using Github Action. Risk Mindset –All CommBank employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks. A degree in CS or related field.

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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How we rate this

Staff Software Engineer - Java at Commonwealth Bank of Australia rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
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