Staff Data Engineer
Shape a modern data platform and solve complex engineering challenges through hands-on technical leadership.
Build trusted, scalable data products using Snowflake, dbt and contemporary software engineering practices.
Influence engineering standards, mentor talented colleagues and help teams turn data into meaningful business outcomes.
Do Work That Matters
As a Staff Data Engineer in Bankwest Technology, you’ll play a hands-on role in growing a live, modern data platform built around Snowflake, dbt, GitHub Actions and AWS. You’ll solve complex and sometimes ambiguous problems, build trusted data products, and enable teams across Bankwest to deliver important business use cases.
This is platform modernisation rather than a traditional lift-and-shift migration, with a strong focus on automated delivery, engineering quality and use-case-led adoption.
Bring your ambition and we’ll help you grow, belong and shape what’s next in modern data engineering.
See yourself in our team
You’ll join a Bankwest Tech Shared platforms team that supports and grows the platform while enabling engineering teams to develop and manage data products in a federated environment. The role combines deep technical delivery with mentoring, stakeholder engagement and influence over engineering direction.
In this role, you will:
Design, build and operate scalable data pipelines and reusable data products across distributed data platforms.
Apply strong data modelling, transformation and integration practices to make data reliable, well governed and fit for purpose.
Take end-to-end ownership of data assets in production, including testing, monitoring, operational support and the resolution of critical issues.
Work with product, analytics, data science and business stakeholders to understand high-value use cases and translate them into pragmatic technical solutions.
Strengthen continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, automation, code quality and secure software engineering across the platform.
Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers and influence standards, patterns, roadmaps and platform direction.
Identify and address technical debt, delivery risks and opportunities to improve platform resilience and maintainability.
Explore how emerging technology, including AI-assisted engineering, can support modernisation and better ways of working.
We’re interested in hearing from people who:
You’re an experienced data engineering practitioner who can move between detailed technical delivery and conversations with senior stakeholders. You bring strong engineering foundations, take accountability for production outcomes and enjoy helping others build their capability. Learning agility is essential, particularly as tools and AI-assisted engineering practices continue to evolve.
You’ll bring:
Experience contributing to large-scale modernisation programs, particularly migrations from on-premises platforms to cloud environments.
Hands-on experience designing and developing reliable, scalable data pipelines and data platforms with strong test coverage.
Experience delivering data engineering solutions aligned to core data design, preparation, transformation, and load concepts.
Strong SQL capability and experience with a modern distributed data platform, such as Snowflake, AWS or a comparable environment.
Experience with transformation and engineering tools such as dbt, Python, Git and automated deployment pipelines.
Hands-on experience applying software engineering practices, including automated testing, code review, observability and CI/CD within a DevSecOps environment.
The ability to isolate complex problems, make pragmatic technical decisions and deliver incrementally in an agile environment.
Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical practices across teams without relying on formal people leadership.
Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Observe, Obstack
AWS Cloud (working experience with some of the core services EMR, EC2, S3, Auto-scaling, etc.)
Working with us:
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If you’re ready to help shape a modern data platform and grow your impact as a technical leader, apply now.
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Skills Required
- Experience contributing to large-scale modernization programs, particularly migrations from on-premises platforms to cloud environments
- Hands-on experience designing and developing reliable, scalable data pipelines and data platforms with strong test coverage
- Experience delivering data engineering solutions involving data design, preparation, transformation, and loading
- Strong SQL capability and experience with a modern distributed data platform such as Snowflake or AWS
- Experience with dbt, Python, Git, and automated deployment pipelines
- Hands-on experience with automated testing, code review, observability, and CI/CD in a DevSecOps environment
- Ability to isolate complex problems, make pragmatic technical decisions, and deliver incrementally in an agile environment
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical practices without formal people leadership
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Observe, or Obstack
- Working experience with AWS core services such as EMR, EC2, S3, and Auto Scaling
Commonwealth Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Commonwealth Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Commonwealth Bank.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The bank offers additional Life Leave, the option to purchase up to four extra weeks, pet leave, and paid volunteering leave alongside flexible-working options. Public materials indicate these leave features compare well within Australian banking.
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Parental & Family Support — Permanent employees can access up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave, and superannuation is paid for up to 34 weeks of unpaid parental leave. These provisions extend support for new parents beyond standard settings.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Access includes CBHS Health Fund, Fitness Passport, a 24/7 wellbeing platform with telehealth, an Employee Assistance Program, and employer‑paid income protection for up to two years, alongside staff banking perks and share plans. This combination provides day‑to‑day value across health, protection, and financial perks.
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