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 Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Business & Team:

Retail Technology 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.

The Retail Technology team is responsible for technology leadership and capability underpinning CommBank’s retail business.

Impact & contribution:

To drive excellence, quality and performance in the delivery of efficient, reliable and maintainable application and solutions that meet design and requirements specifications for technology projects.

Principal Software Engineers play a significant mentoring role in providing design and technical leadership to other members of the engineering team.

Reporting lines:

You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager leading the Engineering function within Retail Technology.

You will collaborate closely with other engineering leads and will be expected to build and maintain effective relationships with your peers across teams, their immediate engineering team, the broader project team (Business Analysts, Testers, Architects, and Solution Delivery Managers/project managers) and external vendor development and support teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Principal Engineer, the primary purpose of the role is to lead, drive, promote, engineer and implement complex technical solutions in a cloud based environment.

The Principal Engineer is a technology leader, introducing and driving new tooling, processes and industry best practices.
You will drive and continuously improve the tools and processes that automate the delivery of applications to public cloud through Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines which include the build, the testing and deployment capabilities of these pipelines.

• Be a subject matter expert on implementing enterprise solutions using Node and TypeScript on AWS (Preferred) and Azure (desired).
• Be a technical leader in a collaborative engineering team developing and enhancing the CI/CD pipelines used to deploy applications to public cloud (AWS & Azure).
• Drive innovative solutions to move complex workloads from on-prem infrastructure to public cloud.
• Coach and mentor existing .Net technology engineers to migrate to Node and TypeScript based framework. Hence experience in .Net technologies is desirable.
• Work with delivery teams to enable new capabilities and application features with React framework.
• Investigate and monitor production workloads to help optimise Cloud costs, resilience and availability.
• Have a strong risk mindset, ensuring that appropriate cyber security and availability controls are implemented

Essential Skills:

You must have extensive experience in the following:

• Has designed large scale IDP implementations and migrations using solutions from Ping.
• Has designed large scale Fine-grained, policy-based authorization implementations using solutions from Ping.
• Understand authentication & authorisation standards (OAuth 2.0 and OIDC), and can explain them to other engineers.
• Solid understanding of CIAM principles and related protocols including but not limited to SSO, SAML, LDAP, OAuth, OIDC and FIDO.
• Hands-on experience with Ping products such as PingFederate, PingDirectory, PingAuthorize & Davinci. Experience with Ping One Advanced Servicers is highly regarded.
• Experts in SDLC with broader experience around Architecture, System Implementation / Integration and Technology Transformations
• Developing applications using C# and ASPNET.Core
• Cloud native application engineering on AWS.
• CI/CD Pipelines: GitHub, TeamCity or Jenkins, Octopus.
• Architecting cloud applications for AWS.
• Working with senior stakeholders, with the confidence to challenge when required.
• Advocate and practitioner of continuous integration and delivery practices.
• Strong understanding of application architecture
• Strong knowledge of software implementation best practices
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Ability to work and participate in a collaborate working environment
• Experience working in a technical leadership capacity with the ability to influence architecture and technical implementations
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, with the confidence to challenge when required.
• Confident in presenting your ideas to a wide audience including senior management and other stakeholders
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Able to debug complex technical issues involving multiple system components.

Education Qualifications :

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