Principal Software Engineer

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: Principal Engineer

Location: Bangalore – Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team: Our Bankwest Technology division is at the heart of our digital product strategy and is responsible for the management and deployment of technology change across the organization. Our tech teams work at pace, with autonomy and local decision making, to deploy world-class solutions in the pursuit of our business strategy.

You’ll be joining our Bankwest Tech Team, a critical supporting function that allows teams to deliver rapidly whilst still aligning to a strategic roadmap. As a team of trusted internal consultants, you’ll provide the expertise, guidance and technology governance to delivery teams to plot a pragmatic path between today’s deliverables and our longer-term enterprise objectives. You’ll provide input into roadmaps, best practice, standards and methodologies to help ensure high quality outcomes, and oversee implementation to ensure business objectives are met.

Since you bridge the gap between business problems and technology solutions, you’ll need to be equally comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders as with engineering teams, and excellent communication skills (in both directions) are a must. And often you’ll work across a range of different initiatives, so whilst you’re never short of a challenge, the ability to work independently and manage your own time is important.

Impact & contribution: As a Principal Engineer you:

• Empathetic and self-aware. You think and care deeply about how you might interact with your team, stakeholders and customers.
• A Mentor, harbouring a passion to nurture, grow and influence those around you to think differently and always maintain a growth mindset.
• Innovative. You continually seek to improve the status quo for our customers. You inspire your team to do the same and remain resilient through change.
• Promoting quality and delivering at pace through the maximization of automation is one of the key focus area of the role.
• Ownership, you take responsibility for the software design, engineering processes and quality standards of yours as well as your team as you work in a collaborative environment.

 Roles & responsibilities:

• Can design innovative solutions to solve complex problems as part of a cross-functional squad.
• Have led major end-to-end enterprise solutions including discovery, strategy, design, product, development and deploys.
• Imbue a true DevSecOps mindset and approach. You build it, you secure it, you test it, and you run it.
• Ensure our technical approach is sound, fit for purpose and well architected. Support deployments across our clouds (i.e. AWS) environments through our continuous delivery pipelines. Promote a culture of continuous learning, experimentation and innovation, while contributing to governance, standards and best practices.
• Act and lead as the technical subject-matter expert for all engineers, sharing your knowledge and expertise to your chapter via workshops and guilds.
• Continuously strive for excellence by leading the team in identifying and solving the problems effectively. This involves maintaining high standards of quality in all deliverable’s and ensuring that the team follows the best practices for continuous deployment.
• Collaborates closely with product owners, engineers and designers, the Tech Lead ensures that the technical solutions are feasible and meet the needs of the customer. Help to create end-to-end experiences that are genuinely useful and aligned with business objectives.
• Is accountable for outcome rather than outputs, ensuring that the solutions delivered meet business objectives and customer needs. This involves making balanced tradeoffs between various factors such as customer satisfaction, risk management, commercial viability, technological feasibility and team well-being.
• Ensures continuous deployment, quality and velocity in product delivery. By prioritising small, frequent and uphold releases, they ensure that the digital experiences are reliable, efficient and continuously improving.

Essential Skills:

• Minimum experience 16-18 years, with expert level knowledge, with more than 4 years of technical leadership experience, working with the following languages
• .NET (Core and Framework)
• Front-end Web development (Angular)

Good experience working with the following tools:

• IDE’s  (Visual Studio, Android Studio)
• PowerShell Scripting
• Automated testing frameworks such as Selenium, Jest, Cypress (knowledge on automation testing preferred)
• Source control systems such as Git
• Build and deployment tools such as TeamCity, Octopus deploy
• Database – SQL, PL/SQL
• Monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Observe, Prometheus and Grafana
• Expert in SDLC and Agile methods with broader experience around architecture, design and implementation, deployment, integration and technology transformation.
• Coding languages: .NET, .NET core, JavaScript, TypeScript
• DevSecOps: CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub actions, TeamCity, Synk, SonarQube, Octopus.)
• Network: Firewall, network segmentation, infrastructure as code, API gateways

Well versed in the following Software Development concepts:

• Design and Architectural patterns
• REST and API Development
• Event serving and serverless Frameworks
• CI/CD and DevOps
• TDD and BDD
• Microservices architecture
• Secure Coding practices
• AI & Machine Learning and LLM Knowledge is desired.

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.