Principal Data Engineer

Location: Bengaluru

Organization:  At Comm Bank, 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:

Principal Data Engineer

Location:

Bangalore

Business & Team:
The Technology Team is responsible for the world-leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of Comm Bank, 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. Comm Bank is recognised 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 Group Security (GS) team protects the Bank and our customers from cyber compromise, through proactive management of cyber security, privacy, and operational risk.
Our Group Security Data Engineering team leads the way to adopt the Group’s new strategic cloud data platform Comm Bank. Data. On this platform we are accountable for driving Group Security’s data driven and proactive security function through advanced analytics and agentic AI workflows.

Impact & Contribution:
To ensure the Group achieves a sustainable competitive advantage through data engineering, you will play a key role in supporting and executing the Group Security’s data strategy. In this role, you will be responsible for setting up the Group Security Data Platform to ingest data from various organizations' security telemetry data, along with additional data assets and data products. This platform will provide security controls and services leveraged across the Group.

Roles & Responsibilities :
You will be expected to perform the following tasks in a manner consistent with CBA’s Values and People Capabilities.

Core Responsibilities:

Possesses hands-on technical experience working in AWS.
The individual should possess a robust set of technical and soft skills and be an excellent AWS Data Engineer with a focus on complex Automation and Engineering Framework development.
Being well-versed in Python is mandatory, and experience in developing complex frameworks using Python is required.
Passionate about Cloud/Dev Sec Ops /Automation and possess a keen interest in solving complex problems systematically.
Drive the development and implementation of scalable data solutions and data pipelines using various AWS services.
Possess the ability to work independently and collaborate closely with team members and technology leads.
Exhibit a proactive approach, constantly seeking innovative solutions to complex technical challenges.
Can take responsibility for nominated technical assets related to areas of expertise, including roadmaps and technical direction.
Can own and develop technical strategy, overseeing medium to complex engineering initiatives.
Lead the design and architecture of large-scale data systems, ensuring they meet business needs and performance requirements.
Provide strategic direction for data engineering initiatives, aligning them with organizational goals.
Mentor and guide senior data engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
Collaborate with executive leadership to define and prioritize data engineering projects.
Ensure the implementation of best practices in data management, security, and governance.
Act as a System and Data Architect, designing and implementing robust, scalable, and efficient data architectures.
Demonstrate capabilities to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment while delivering high-quality results on time.
Conduct and drive multiple extensive Proof of Concepts (PoCs) simultaneously, focusing on research, automation, and framework development.
Bring in the latest and greatest cloud-based solutions, ensuring the…