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: BB Tech

Impact & contribution

As a Principal Software Engineer within Payments Customer Servicing, you will be responsible for the transformation of payment enabling technologies and business operations within a cloud-enabled, AI-driven platform and software architecture. Your role involves developing solutions, guiding design decisions to achieve key outcomes across the Payments Operations portfolio. You will also be responsible for conducting design analysis and providing estimations throughout all project phases, from business case development and ideation to discovery and inception.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Design and implement BIAN APIs, specifications, and integrations leveraging Power Platform, Pega, and cloud-native services

Lead high-performing API, Power Platform, and Cloud Engineering teams, fostering collaboration and technical excellence

Own and govern solution designs ensuring scalability, security, and compliance across multiple technologies and platforms

Adopt a ‘Design to Run’ mentality to architect robust, supportable solutions optimized for Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments

Provide developmental advice and consult on business case/ideation, discovery, inception, and enhancement requests by analyzing current vs target architectures, ensuring alignment with ES strategy and architecture standards

Collaborate with Solution Architecture and functional SMEs to prototype solutions, exploring alternatives with a focus on simplicity, reusability, and low total cost of ownership

Engage with upstream and downstream system representatives to deliver integrated end-to-end solutions that meet operational and business objectives

Proactively seek opportunities for continuous improvement of core product systems, leveraging Agentic AI capabilities, advanced analytics, and data insights

Work with senior technical and business management teams to identify issues in current architectures, develop target architectures, and communicate their features and benefits effectively

Lead and influence business partners, peers, team members, and vendors to ensure alignment and successful delivery

Essential Skills

Over 14-18 years of comprehensive experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservice architectures

Proven expertise in Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, and .NET frameworks, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions

Extensive background in Pega application development and implementing API-driven integrated architectures

Deep understanding of enterprise database systems, including Oracle and SQL, with a focus on optimizing data flow and integrity

Experience in payment processing operations and financial technology integrations, ensuring secure and compliant transaction workflows

Proficient in Python programming, complemented by cloud platform expertise in AWS and Azure environments

Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, IAM roles & policies, Elastic Beanstalk, Fargate, VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, and Load Balancers

Skilled in modern CI/CD practices utilizing tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes for streamlined delivery pipelines

Expertise in monitoring and logging solutions including Splunk, ObservInc, AppDynamics, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor to ensure high system availability and performance

Demonstrated leadership in guiding engineering teams, establishing best practices, and driving technological innovation

Strong proficiency in designing robust, scalable application architectures, applying object-oriented principles and industry best practices

Adept at troubleshooting complex, multi-component systems to resolve critical technical issues efficiently

Experienced in Agile (Scrum) methodologies, fostering collaborative team environments focused on continuous delivery and improvement

Education Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree/master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology or any similar stream

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