Role Purpose The Dev/Tech (Principal) Lead owns the endtoend technical architecture and engineering standards for businesscritical digital platforms.

This role is a handson technical leadership position, not a peopleonly lead, responsible for ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, cloudnative, and aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities Technical & Architectural Leadership Own and define endtoend solution architecture.

Drive architecture and design decisions aligned with business outcomes.

Define and enforce reusable design patterns and frameworks.

Design APIfirst, microservicesbased architectures in cloud environments.

Apply DomainDriven Design (DDD) principles.

Ensure security by design, scalability, and resilience.

Engineering Excellence Lead and review featurelevel technical designs.

Drive adoption of contemporary engineering frameworks and practices.

Lead complex internal and external system integrations.

Remain handson where needed across backend, frontend, cloud, and CI/CD.

Cloud, DevOps & Automation Architect and optimize multicloud solutions (AWS & Azure).

Define and govern CI/CD standards and reusable pipelines in GitLab.

Mentor teams on IaC best practices using Terraform.

Establish release management governance.

Observability, Performance & Cost Establish observability frameworks (logging, monitoring, alerting).

Monitor performance, reliability, and availability using cloudnative monitoring services.

Drive cost optimization, capacity monitoring, and performance tuning.





Automate operational and service management tasks.

Quality, Testing & Frontend Leadership Define testing strategies across unit, integration, and E2E testing.

Ensure testing is embedded in CI/CD.

Oversee advanced frontend practices including React optimization and Module Federation.

Enforce accessibility and quality standards.

Data & Platform Design Define data strategies: Relational vs NoSQL selection.

Normalized and denormalized schema design.

Sharding and partitioning for NoSQL where applicable.

Ensure HA/DR, scalability, and resilience.

Required Skills & Experience Proven experience as a Technical Lead / Principal Engineer in cloudnative platforms.

Deep expertise in: .NET ReactJS AWS & Azure Terraform Microservices & APIfirst architecture Strong DevOps mindset with handson CI/CD experience.

Ability to mentor Senior and Junior engineers at a technical level.

Strong understanding of service management, automation, and operations.

Key Expectations Must perform Dev Lead or Tech Lead duties, not just coordination.

Must be capable of delivering architecture and designs without client FTE dependency.

Accountable for solution quality, performance, cost, and operational readiness.

Acts as the technical authority for the delivery.
Engineering
8-12 years
• SBA demand for TOM (Target Operating Model) o Strong business analysis capability tracking through Visio, JIRA, Confluence and SharePoint to name a few o Technical & data awareness

Required Skill Profession

Other General

📌 Principal Consultant (Brisbane)
🏢 Xpt Software Australia
📍 Brisbane