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.
CommBank is recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps.
The Retail Technology team is responsible for technology leadership and capability underpinning CommBank’s retail business.
You will be joining Retail Technology which is responsible for building and supporting the application used by our end customers.
The goal of RT is to provide applications underpinned and enabled by world-class people, process and technology.
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.
As a Principal Engineer embedded in a single cross‑functional squad, you are the crew’s technical leader and hands-on architect. You will own end‑to‑end design and delivery for the crew’s services under the Guidance of the CTL, lead the crew’s migration from on‑prem/Azure to AWS, and uplift reliability, observability, and CI/CD. You’ll work day‑to‑day with the Product and Engineering Manager to shape scope and sequence, lead incident response for the squad, and coach engineers to raise the technical bar—while aligning with platform/security teams to meet shared standards and compliance in a regulated environment.
Note: While AWS is a primary focus, our technology landscape also includes Azure and Copilot Studio (CPS). You will be expected to design and deliver solutions that integrate seamlessly across these platforms, ensuring interoperability, security, and performance in a hybrid cloud environment.
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Education Qualification:
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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