Lead Data Engineer (Snowflake, dbt) – 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Lead Data Engineer (Snowflake, dbt) – 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

See yourself in our team

Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) is a team of over 190 professionals and is an integral part of CBA’s Group Risk Function. FCC is accountable for the development, implementation and ongoing governance of the Group’s financial crime compliance program, driving the Group’s approach to managing Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF), Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), and Anti-Tax Evasion (ATE) risks and obligations.

What your role will involve

You will be part of a specialist team reporting to the Executive Manager, Financial Crime Compliance, with a primary focus on supporting ASB with the delivery of data engineering capabilities for Transaction Monitoring and broader financial crime initiatives.

This is a hands-on Lead Data Engineer role.

You will act as both a senior individual contributor and the technical and people lead for a small team of 3–4 data engineers.

You will be expected to design solutions, write and review production code, build and troubleshoot data pipelines, and contribute directly to engineering delivery, while also setting technical direction, establishing engineering standards and leading the day-to-day delivery of the team.

You will work closely with stakeholders across ASB, FCC Australia and New Zealand, and technology teams to translate complex financial crime and business requirements into reliable, scalable and well-controlled data solutions.

In this role, you will:

Act as a senior hands-on engineer, designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting data engineering solutions.

Lead and line-manage a small team of 3–4 data engineers, analysts and QAs providing technical direction, coaching, feedback and development.

Lead delivery of ASB data engineering initiatives while also contributing directly to the codebase and technical implementation.

Design, build and optimise production-grade data pipelines, transformations and integration solutions.

Write high-quality, maintainable SQL and dbt code and contribute directly to complex engineering work where required.

Review code produced by the team, provide constructive technical feedback and ensure agreed engineering standards are consistently applied.

Lead technical and solution design reviews and make pragmatic engineering decisions where requirements, designs or delivery approaches are unclear.