Senior Software Engineer (cba)

Job Description

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:

Location: Bangalore

Business & Team:

The Commonwealth Bank is the leading financial institution in Australia and provides integrated financial services.

The role sits within the Bankwest Technology division. Bankwest is a subsidiary of The Commonwealth Bank, and the Bankwest Technology division (BWT) is accountable for maintaining system resilience and supporting the delivery of our bold technology strategy at pace and scale.

Bankwest Technology consists of Platforms and Chapters underpinned by areas of expertise that manage Bankwest technology, applications and systems to support the Bankwest business. Bankwest Technology is located primarily in Bankwest Place in Perth, WA and has a total approx. 650 employees.

Bankwest Technology is made up of the following areas of expertise.

• Technology Programs
• Engineering and Automation
• Strategy & Agility
• GTS Technology Platforms and Service Management
• Chief Technology Office
• Risk and Control Advisory and Delivery.

Impact & contribution:

• Empathetic and self-aware. You think and care deeply about how you might interact with your team, stakeholders and customers.
• A Mentor, harboring a passion to nurture, grow and influence those around you to think differently and always maintain a growth mindset.
• Innovative. You continually seek to improve the status quo for our customers. You inspire your team to do the same and remain resilient through change.
• Promoting quality and delivering at pace through the maximization of automation is one of the key focus area of the role.
• Ownership, you take responsibility for the software design, engineering processes and quality standards of yours as well as your team members as you work in a collaborative environment.

Reporting lines:

This role is an individual contributor role, reporting to an Engineering Manager of Systems of Experience, Bankwest Technology.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• All aspects of the SDLC which includes Analysis, Estimation, Design, Development, Testing, Quality Assurance, Support, Maintenance and Optimization tasks.
• System, user & operational acceptance test support.
• Coach and guide software developers
• Drive pragmatic and fit for purpose solutions of high technical quality. Act as "Quality Advocate" for the squad, encourage critical thinking mindset and drive prevention of defects over detection of defect
• Provide tools, expertise, and knowledge to help squad gain a shared understanding of outcome and shared ownership of quality
• Familiarity and experience with automated testing. Pro-actively look for ways to provide faster feedback, including uplift in test automation maturity in the squad.
• Work collaboratively with engineers within and across squads.
• Support the team in delivering quality outcomes within committed time frames
• Stakeholder Management - communication with a range of stakeholders, both technical and non-technical at all levels, including explaining complex technical issues to a non-technical audience. Customer engagement & consultation.
• Maintaining software design, engineering processes and quality standards including maintaining privacy of customer information and following secure code practice.
• Maintains awareness of changes in the external environment and continuously advances the capability.
• Maintaining Code Quality.
• Solving complex business problems
• Implementation services
• Production support
• Risk Mindset – All Bankwest employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks.

Essential Skills:

Minimum 8-12 years of experience with expert level knowledge, working with the following languages Experience developing & testing quality technical solutions using either:

• iOS Objective-C, iOS Swift
• Android - Java, Android – Kotlin
• C# - .NET Framework and .NET Core
• REST and API Development
• IDEs
• Unit Testing
• Source Control systems such as BitBucket
• Build & Deployment tools such as TeamCity, Octopus Deploy
• Monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics
• Database such as Oracle, MySQL etc.
• CI/CD and DevOps
• TDD and BDD
• Micro-services Architecture
• Secure Coding Practices

Education Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology