Principal Data Platform Engineer (AWS)

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-17 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full-time Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

A$15,000–A$25,000/mo (A$180,000–A$300,000/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

Responsibilities

  • Principal Data Platform Engineer (AWS)
  • You are passionate about solving complex problem with the latest tech
  • We're the largest and most advanced Data Engineering teams in the country.
  • Together we build tomorrow's bank with world class engineering
  • Do work that matters
  • The Capital Provisioning Modelling Crew builds and runs the platforms that support how credit risk models are developed, validated, implemented, and monitored aligning to the Model Development Lifecycle Methodology (MDLC), processes, and procedures. The outcomes produced by these models are used in managing the Group Risk Management functions including front line business processes as well as for regulatory reporting including loss provisioning, portfolio analysis, and reporting.
  • These are critical, model-driven systems operating under regulatory scrutiny, where accuracy, control and reliability are essential.
  • As a Principal Engineer, you will shape the engineering direction for platforms that enable data consumption, model execution and deployment at scale, while meeting strong governance and control requirements.
  • See yourself in the team
  • You'll be part of the Capital Provisioning Modelling Crew, working across credit risk modelling, data and platform engineering.
  • The crew focuses on:
  • Consuming trusted data from enterprise data marketplace
  • Enabling model execution and orchestration at scale
  • Supporting SageMaker-based model deployment and ML workloads
  • Driving modernisation and decommissioning of legacy and sandpit environments
  • Delivering efficiencies into the framework and tools that can help deliver the models in a safe, sound, and secure way
  • Embedding controls, lineage and auditability by design
  • As a Principal Engineer, you will
  • Define and drive platform strategy for capital provisioning modelling
  • Architect and build cloud-native platforms (AWS) supporting model and data workloads