Data 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: Data Engineer

Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park (Hybrid)

Business & Team:

Corporate Technology Team is responsible for the world leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of CommBank, 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.

Financial Crime Technology (FCT) are accountable for build & maintenance of Technology Services to fulfil the Group's Financial Crime Regulatory & Compliance Obligations. The Monitoring & Screening, Customer Life Cycle Management, Reporting & Insights Crews within Financial Crome Domain ensure that our Financial Crimes obligations are met. It’s essential they are fueled by Complete, Accurate and Timely Data to fulfill these obligations.

Impact & contribution:

To ensure the Group achieves sustainable competitive advantage through data engineering, you will need to play a key role in supporting and executing the Group’s data strategy.

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our Financial Crimes Technology Team under Delivery Chapter Area. We are a diverse team focused on building a simpler, better bank. In your role as Data Engineer, you will be required to work in a fast paced, complex, agile environment to conduct process, technical and data analysis, and design reporting solutions that will help in combating Financial Crimes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• We are looking for a talented Data Engineer to join our team and lead end-to-end data warehouse projects in the banking industry. This role requires a unique blend of business analysis and data engineering skills to design, develop, and implement data solutions that meet business needs. The successful candidate will be responsible for gathering and documenting requirements, conducting gap analysis, building data pipelines, and ensuring data quality and availability.
• Contribute to thought leadership enabling business and technology teams to deliver world class data centric solutions and analytics by championing sustainable and re-useable data products.
• Participate in the full lifecycle of agile projects (ideation through implementation).
• Facilitate the elicitation and capturing of data-related business requirements, documenting the current and future states to identify and recommend improvements, verification, and validation.
• Work closely with stakeholders and change management to identify impacts on business and system processes due to application changes.
• Demonstrate fair understanding of end-to-end Data Lifecycle - Data Collection and Integration, Data Storage and Management, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Process and Big Data Technologies and Data Governance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of data solutions with business objectives.

Essential Skills:

• Minimum 5-7 years of experience.
• Demonstrated experience in SQL
• Comfortable in scripting, data manipulation and automation
• Good understanding of Data Collection and Integration, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Process, Data Management, Data Governance principles.
• Jira and Confluence, Release train and Big Room Planning experience.
• Awareness of the various technology Platforms and ability to perform data mapping.
• Expert in Agile ways of working.
• A natural ability to effectively communicate, educate and influence the different stakeholders/ peers, to solve challenging problems, while working in collaboration with other cross-functional engineering and solution design teams
• A positive desire to contribute towards initiatives, along with a strong ‘can-do’ attitude in juggling between constantly changing priorities.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering data solutions and querying data warehouses is highly desirable.
• Convert business needs into functional designs using knowledge of data warehousing and Big Data architecture and processes.
• Perform data analysis to extract meaningful insights and support decision-making processes.
• Develop and maintain documentation for data processes, systems, and workflows.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with Big Data and cloud Technologies