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**Your responsibilities**

As a Principal Software Engineer within API crew, the primary purpose of the role is to lead, drive, promote, engineer and implement solutions and standards to steer and influence API & microservices platform adoption. You are required to bring team together for technical discussion, and drive the desired outcome by resolving / highlighting roadblock for the delivery. You are to drive and continuously improve the tools and process that automate the delivery of code through Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines which include the build, testing and deployment capabilities. In essence, Ensuring time to market for solution is very short.
- Establish API & Microservices Security & Semantic standards and governance
- Design and implement BIAN APIs and specifications
- Lead high performing API and Cloud Engineering team
- Uplift existing API Gateway, API IDP, API developer portal & Service Mesh to adhere to industry best practices
- Adopt a ‘Design to Run’ mentality to architect robust solutions that are fully supportable in a production environment
- Provide developmental advice and consult for business case/ideation, discovery, inception and enhancement requests by examining current vs target architectures ensuring align with ES strategy and architecture standards
- Collaborate with Solution Architecture and functional SME’s across BU’s to prototype solutions to explore alternatives, seeking simple & standard solutions with a low cost of ownership
- Collaborate with upstream and downstream system representatives to ensure an integrated end to end solution is delivered to achieve the desired outcomes
- Proactively seek opportunities for continuous improvement of Core Product systems and data to leverage existing capabilities
- Work with senior technical and business management teams in identifying issues of current state architecture, developing target state architecture with the ability to communicate the features and benefits
- Effectively lead and influence business & technology partners, peers, team members and vendors
- Identifies and engages stakeholders, including architecture disciplines, asset owners, delivery owner, business stakeholders and SMEs to ensure architecture is optimal, and has the greatest chance of success
- Steer API standards forum for CBA to guide SME’s across BU’s to adhere to API security and semantic standards
- Adhere to the Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct sets the standards of behavior, actions and decisions we expect from our people.

**Your **skills & experience**
- Significant BIAN experience, or experience in guiding design using BIAN architecture
- Hands on knowledge on API gateway(Kong), API security & API portal implementation
- Experience in implementing BIAN APIs as per Open API specifications.
- Well versed in API design best practices and fundamentals of REST
- Good understanding of API & Microservices design patterns and best practices
- Sound knowledge on Site Reliability Engineering & DevSecOps
- Ability to understand and translate BIAN service domain into APIs across business functions
- Ownership and governance API & Microservices solution designs
- Development on cloud based platforms AWS & Azure
- Worked on Retail banking on various digital platforms
- Monitoring, logging tools and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Hands on experience in implementing API & Microservices in Java,.net, Golang, Typescript
- Solution and technology workshop API & microservices orchestration & management
- Technical leader who can be relied upon to develop and lead engineers
- Technical leadership of tools and technologies within capability (develop, build, test automation, deployment, monitoring & logging, or service management & orchestration) being specialized
- Strong knowledge of software implementation best practices and object orientated design principles
- Excellent People management, leadership and communication skills
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- You are able to debug complex technical issues involving multiple system components
- Ability to work and participate in an agile (scrum) environment
- Bachelor in Computer Science or Engineering
- Ability to solve complex problems and deliver high quality solutions
- Passion for new technology, continuous learning, innovation, improvement and optimization.
- **Risk Mindset **-All CommBank employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks.
- A degree in Computer Science or a related field

**Your development**
- Establish a mentor relationship with Distinguished Engineers
- Attending industry conferences and meetups
- Active involvement in engineering guilds

If you live the values and demonstrate the people capabilities we can offer great opportunities. Whether you want to move across the organization or up into a leadership role, the way you live the values and demonstrate the people capabilitie