Role Purpose

The Dev/Tech (Principal) Lead owns the end-to-end technical architecture and engineering standards for business-critical digital platforms. This role is a hands-on technical leadership position, not a people-only lead, responsible for ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, cloud-native, and aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Technical & Architectural Leadership

- Own and define end-to-end solution architecture.
- Drive architecture and design decisions aligned with business outcomes.
- Define and enforce reusable design patterns and frameworks.
- Design API-first, microservices-based architectures in cloud environments.
- Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
- Ensure security by design, scalability, and resilience.

Engineering Excellence

- Lead and review feature-level technical designs.
- Drive adoption of modern engineering frameworks and practices.
- Lead complex internal and external system integrations.
- Remain hands-on where needed across backend, frontend, cloud, and CI/CD.

Cloud, DevOps & Automation

- Architect and optimize multi-cloud 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 cloud-native 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 cloud-native platforms.
- Deep expertise in:
- .NET
- ReactJS
- AWS & Azure
- Terraform
- Microservices & API-first architecture

Solid DevOps mindset with hands-on 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.

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