Team Overview:

The AppSec Team focuses on building secure mobile, web and cloud applications throughout their development lifecycle, from start to finish. AppSec is a proactive approach to security that help prevents threats at the initial stages rather than a reactive approach.

As an Application Security Engineer at TAL, you will be responsible for ensuring the security of our applications by implementing and maintaining robust security measures at TAL. You will work closely with development teams to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle. You will also foster security awareness and DevSecOps culture, providing security training to development teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ascertain a holistic understanding of TAL’s systems, development workloads and lifecycles.
• Create and update software application security policies and procedures.
• Work closely with the TAL Cyber team to implement security best practices and standards to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate security controls into the software development process.
• Conduct security assessments on applications to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Drive response to security incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
• Analyse application code and recommend solutions to identified security issues.
• Execute planned and ad-hoc security scans of software applications, and interpret results for development teams.
• Maintain documentation related to application security processes and controls.
• Providing application security guidance, coaching, and training to development teams and other stakeholders.
• Ensuring the adoption and implementation of application security tools in the DevSecOps lifecycle.
• Gather, manipulate and report on data from application security tools programmatically.
• Work with vendors to tailor application security tools to fit TAL workloads. 
• Stay up-to-date on the latest security threats and trends to proactively address potential risks and educate development teams.

• We embed quantitative analytics within highly critical platforms in the Institutional Banking and Markets (IB&M) division of CBA!

• You are a quantitative developer/engineer/analyst or exceptional software engineer with a strong numerical or data analytics skillset in Python, and exposure to modern software engineering practice!

• Together we can build a robust and automated business on top of our industry leading financial tech stack!

See yourself in our team

IB&M is responsible for managing the Group’s relationships with major corporate and government clients and institutional investors, and provides a full range of capital raising, transactional and risk management products and services.

IB&M’s success will be achieved through the effective implementation of our strategic initiatives. QDAT’s (Quants, Data, Analytics and Technology) purpose is to power, transform & grow IB&M, supporting its strategy via a centre of excellence using data, mathematics, insights, and technology to deliver exceptional results for our clients and the wider Group.

Do work that matters

Armed with a Python-based state-of-the-art financial platform and streamlined continuous integration/deployment pipeline, you will be responsible for automating our business end-to-end, ultimately providing insights to our customers, the team, and our stakeholders. As a talented, valuable team player and self-motivated Quantitative Engineer you will bring your skills in Python and data-focused analytics or application development.

On a day-to-day basis

• You will be part of a nimble team of high-performing engineers going above and beyond, to build creative solutions that deliver impactful outcomes to solve our customers’ most complex financial operational and business problems

• Utilise your quantitative skillset to put data at the heart of decision making

• Enable our business to scale through your software engineering skills

• Your commitment to automate and manage all risks (Financial / operational) will enable our business to endure

• Digitalise IB&M’s end-to-end deal life cycle from origination through to credit approval to in-life monitoring through to refinancing

We are interested in hearing from people who have

Please note that we’re interested in hearing from people who might not meet all the following criteria. We’re open to working with the right candidate to fill any skill gaps during your journey at CommBank. 

• Demonstrated expertise in numerical skills, quantitative methods

• Sound understanding of financial markets and/or corporate & institutional lending products is advantageous

• Proven experience with best-practice software engineering with a high level of software engineering knowledge and ability

• Expertise as a Quantitative Developer in delivering insights and analysis to improve financial and operational risk posture

• Commercial focus to allow our business to maximise profitable growth and customer satisfaction outcomes

• An innate ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders from sales to technical leadership groups

• Continuously striving to learn new skills along with a positive ‘Can-do’ attitude

Working with us

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney office.

We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you. 

If this sounds like you, please apply now!