Responsibilities

- See the big picture – establish the technical solutions for digital products and services enabling re‑use, flexibility and scale and accelerating our ability to build compelling products and services.
- Ideate – evolve and re‑imagine our technology stack ensuring resilient and modern functionality is maintained while clearing the way for the next horizon of innovation.
- Build – directly contribute to engineering, engineering practices, correction and support and work in close partnership with your product and engineering team members to build and experiment cohesive products and services – delivering frequently, efficiently and safely based on codified patterns, controlled pipelines and automated quality frameworks.
- Assure, run and manage – support the team across quality engineering enabling consistent patterns, assessment of quality and improvements to designs to simplify our landscape, eliminate waste and to operation and run manage the platforms safely.
- Connect – build strong relationships with our product, engineering, cyber, data and delivery stakeholders.
- Research and learn – bring in innovative thought leadership to the team and drive designs that are contextual given our current landscape, our regulatory obligations and our future goals.
- Lead and develop engineers – coach engineers through code reviews, technical guidance and best‑practice standards.

Qualifications

- Minimum 10–15 years of software engineering experience,



including leadership of high‑performing engineering teams delivering customer‑facing products.
- Proven track record of leading complex engineering initiatives, driving technical design decisions and delivering scalable, high‑quality solutions.
- Experience with CI/CD, cloud‑native application development, resiliency, secure engineering practices, production monitoring, incident response and AI‑powered development tools.
- Deep technical expertise across modern technology stacks, including Java, TypeScript, Python, React/Next.js, Node.js, SQL, HTML/CSS, AWS, GCP, REST APIs, and streaming and queuing technologies.
- Led technical design discussions, collaborated effectively with business stakeholders, and influenced outcomes across Product, Design and key stakeholder groups.
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving and decision‑making skills, with ability to learn quickly and deliver high‑quality outcomes in fast‑paced environments.
- Proven people‑leadership skills with a track record of mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation and collaboration.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data, Finance, Technology or a related discipline.
- Legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without restrictions.

Benefits and Working Conditions

We support versatile working and offer hybrid working options. Candidates will be required to complete background checks, including reference and police checks as part of the onboarding process.

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📌 Digital Principal Engineer (City of Sydney)
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