Staff Engineer - Payments Technology

The Payments Engineering resides in the Payments Service Utility and its purpose is to reward the trust of our customers by transforming the Payments services experiences provided by the Bank to 99.999% availability, greater agility and reliability.
Our team is composed of engineers, architects and technology leaders, who bring in the right mix of skills to enable this transformation. We also work very closely with our business and operations colleagues to support these services which are critical to the Australian and Global economy. Our team is also responsible to drive Engineering Governance, Continuous Delivery and key technological simplification pillars such as Cloud and Payments Event based architecture.

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We are currently looking for Staff Engineer - Payments technology, who will be part of team in defining technical solutions for Merchant Technology initiatives in line with the Group Strategy. This entails ensuring that the product meets the safe, sound and secure standards, contribute to business-driven projects and programs to expand and enhance offerings for merchant and retail customers. This role reports to the Principal Engineer for Payments Technology and will include the below responsibilities (but not limited to):

• Use advanced knowledge of system technologies and platforms and apply engineering principles and practices to achieve business outcomes. Support team members to build out core technologies and broaden system knowledge.
• Provide strategic guidance and oversee medium complexity system engineering initiatives and solutions.
• Develop strategic programs of work, including proof of concept developments.
• Provide mentoring and technical assistance to other engineers on security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability and usability of technology systems.
• Take ownership of a product or technical asset related to areas of expertise including end to end ownership of technical direction and execution and alignment to Group technology strategy.
• Use strong interdisciplinary understanding of platform architectures to deliver systems that are seamlessly integrated, comply with technical requirements and deliver business outcomes.
• Work with internal and vendor teams to build technical solutions in the Payments Tech Domain
• Provide advanced knowledge and experience in the Batch Payments area to advise and assist business and delivery teams
• Provide solution oversight on major programs of technology change in the space
• Identify and recommend solutions to business or technical problems and support recommendations for endorsement in stakeholder forums
• Work directly with key project stakeholders to ensure solutions are optimally defined to achieve business and strategic goals

• Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent IT degree
• Extensive experience in building Payments Solutions
• Experience with integration architecture
• Knowledge of payments protocols and schemes: ISO20022
• Demonstrated capability in delivering solutions that meet high targets in performance, availability, data integrity and security domains
• Experience with Payment processing systems for high-volume payment types (e.g. Direct Entry and BPAY) - desirable.
• IBM Mainframe and OPF Framework - desirable
• Integration technologies such as IBM MQ, Confluent Kafka, API standards - desirable
• Payments File Gateway Systems - desirable

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career here is for you.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace. One where we're driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

Here, you'll thrive. You'll be supported when faced with challenges, and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

We're determined to make a real difference for Australia's first peoples. We encourage all interested applicants to apply. If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest), 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.