Staff Platform Engineer
cba · Sydney CBD Area ·
- Seniority
- Staff
- Category
- Devops
- Company size
- 1000+
cba · Sydney CBD Area ·
Design and build enterprise-scale cloud data platforms for a major bank, focusing on analytics, fraud detection, and customer insights using Snowflake, AWS, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted engineering.
Design and build enterprise-scale cloud data platforms powering critical banking services
Join a high-performing engineering team modernising data capabilities across analytics, fraud and customer insights
Work with leading technologies including Snowflake, AWS, Kubernetes and AI-assisted engineering practices
Do work that matters:
As a Staff Platform Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and evolving data platforms that support some of the bank's most critical capabilities, including analytics, fraud detection, customer insights and regulatory reporting.
Working within the Data Hosting Platform Engineering team, you'll combine deep technical expertise with engineering leadership to drive platform modernisation, improve reliability and help shape the future of enterprise data capabilities.
You will:
Design and deliver enterprise-grade data platform solutions
Build and optimise high-volume batch and streaming data pipelines
Develop cloud-native solutions using Snowflake, AWS and modern engineering practices
Drive automation, reliability and operational excellence
Improve engineering standards and reusable platform capabilities
Support secure data integration and API-based services
Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across teams
Champion continuous improvement and engineering excellence
See yourself in our team:
You will join the Data Hosting Platform Engineering team, building secure, scalable and highly available data platforms that support the future of banking.
We're interested in hearing from people who:
Have extensive experience building enterprise data and platform solutions
Bring strong expertise in Snowflake, ETL/ELT development, data integration and data modelling
Have advanced software engineering skills across Python, Java and SQL technologies
Understand cloud-native engineering practices and platform design within AWS environments
Have experience working with large-scale database technologies including Oracle, PostgreSQL and Snowflake
Demonstrate an automation-first mindset and passion for engineering excellence
Have experience applying DevSecOps, data governance and secure engineering practices
Enjoy mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams
Technical Expertise
Data Engineering
Snowflake
Enterprise data integration
ETL/ELT development
Data modelling
Programming & Development
Python (preferred)
Java
Unix/Linux Shell scripting
REST APIs
Advanced SQL
PL/SQL
Cloud & Platform Engineering
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
Jenkins / GitHub Actions
Data Platforms
Oracle
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Performance tuning
Database optimisation
Quality Engineering
Data validation
ETL testing
SIT/UAT
Automation
Production support
Root Cause Analysis
Security & DevSecOps
Secure data engineering
Data governance
Encryption
DevSecOps
Observability (Splunk)
Ways of Working:
Build reusable engineering frameworks
Platform ownership
Continuous improvement
Engineering automation
Mentoring and capability uplift
AI-assisted engineering using GitHub Copilot
Working with us
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If this sounds like you, apply now and help engineer the future of banking through modern data and platform capabilities.
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