Staff Software Engineer

• You are a Staff software engineer with a passion for Fraud Detection

• We are one of the largest and most advanced Data Engineering teams in the country

• Together we can build state-of-the-art data solutions that power seamless experiences for millions of customers

Do work that matters

CommBank 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. Fraud and scams are on the rise, and we need to be constantly one step ahead using the latest technology to keep our customers safe.

See yourself in our team

We are part of the Fraud Technology team as part of the Group Security Business Unit. We are accountable for the development, implementation and ongoing leadership of the Group’s Fraud technology platform fighting against fraudulent and scamming activities. 

Our purpose is to support our Group’s business, Group Fraud Management Services in providing world class fraud prevention and detection to safeguard CBA and our customers. 

We’re interested in hearing from people who

• Pride themselves in leading and participating in the design, development, testing and operations of solutions for the Group Fraud Decisioning Platform, specialising in all activities related to the core databases decision engines as well as resilience monitoring and support

• Are confident with core database development involving schema and table designs catering for 100mil+ events/day with 800+ columns per table meeting performance and scalability requirements.

• Are knowledge with core database performance tuning and testing

• Pride themselves on assisting on all database related operational implementation and support with automated monitoring and remediation upon incidents

• Have solids hands on experience with core fraud decision engine (SAS Fraud Management) performance tuning and data pipeline (Ab Initio) performance tuning via testing support and tracing.

• Are confident mentoring a small team and prime up junior engineers’ career growth

• Are constantly self-initiating learning with no supervision, independent research

• Pride themselves on their strong stakeholder management ability in gathering requirement extractions and expectation management

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;

• Oracle EXADATA in-depth understanding and hands-on design, performance tuning and day-to-day operation experience.

• Expert level experience in shell scripting in at least one of the shell languages: BASH, KSH, Python.

• SASFM in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in Ab Initio data pipelines.

• Snowflake in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience.

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.

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 our technology hubs in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

If this sounds like you, apply now!

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