Senior Platform 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:Senior Platform Engineer – AWS & Data

Location: Bangalore

Team: Platform Engineering – Data & Cloud

Reports to: Chapter Lead, Engineering

Business & Team: Corporate Technology

Impact & contribution:

Join a visionary team driving the evolution of Finance Systems, with a focus on Oracle EPM SaaS and cloud-native platforms. Architect, build, and operate robust automation and CI/CD pipelines, enabling seamless integration and delivery across AWS and Oracle Cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, challenge and operate scalable data platform solutions on AWS, leveraging both serverless (Lambda, Glue, Athena, Step Functions) and marketplace offerings (third-party data and analytics tools).
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using modern tools (GitHub Actions, CI/CD or similar) to automate deployment, testing, and data workflows.
• Implement cloud-native architectures using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Build and optimise data pipelines for ingestion, storage, transformation, Data Governance, and analytics using AWS services (Glue, Lambda, EMR, Redshift, S3, Kinesis, SageMaker, Bedrock, Athena, Kibana, etc.).
• Integrate and automate testing services for data platforms, ensuring quality and reliability.
• Champion engineering standards: drive best practices in automation, code quality, and agile delivery.
• Mentor and influence: share knowledge, coach peers, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Product Control stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet regulatory, financial, and operational requirements.

Skills & Experience

• AWS Data Services Mastery: Proven experience with AWS serverless (Lambda, Glue, Athena, Step Functions) and marketplace data offerings.
• Data Engineering: Hands-on experience designing and building data pipelines, ETL processes, and analytics solutions using AWS services.
• CI/CD Expertise: Designing and implementing pipelines for cloud and data environments.
• Technical Breadth: Python, SQL, shell scripting, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes.
• API Integration: Working with RESTful APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, and vendor SDKs.
• Testing & Quality: Experience with automated testing frameworks for data platforms.
• Security-first mindset: Experience with DevSecOps, compliance, and data protection.
• Agile delivery: Full-cycle development, from design to production support, in cross-functional teams.
• Collaboration & communication: Ability to work with diverse stakeholders, educate and influence, and thrive in a team environment.
• Experience with data lake architectures and big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, EMR).
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, and data cataloguing.
• Exposure to machine learning workflows and MLOps in AWS.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Understanding of financial systems, product control, and regulatory requirements.

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Engineering or B.Tech