Overview

- Full‑time continuing role, UNSW IT, Principal Adobe Engineer within UNSW IT – AEP and AJO experience essential.
- Starting salary $153,933‑163,338 plus 17% super and leave loading.
- Location: Kensington campus in NSW (Hybrid Flexible Working) 2‑3 days in the office.

Accountabilities

- Providing technical leadership for the implementation and optimisation of Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO), and related customer data, identity and personalisation platforms.
- Define and govern enterprise‑wide architectural standards and policies for digital platforms, ensuring scalability, security and alignment with UNSW’s digital transformation strategy.
- Perform development testing across business processes and platform solutions, defining test scenarios and executing and analysing results.
- Collaborate with Testing and Analysis colleagues throughout delivery to support outcomes and ensure solutions meet intended business outcomes, while driving quality assurance practices and contributing to enterprise‑level assurance frameworks.
- Write and implement efficient code and thorough documentation, enforcing standards and practices with the digital platforms team in an Agile / Test Driven Development. Assess solution options/approaches and document technical specification.
- Provide expert technical guidance and thought leadership to cross‑functional teams, influencing platform usage, journey design and activation strategies to achieve business outcomes.
- Lead technical incident response and root cause analysis, ensuring lessons learned inform future improvements and risk mitigation strategies.
- Support data governance practices and compliance requirements across Adobe platforms, working with architecture and governance teams where required.
- Conduct performance tuning, security assessments, and ensure solutions adhere to university wide cybersecurity policies and threat mitigation strategies.




- Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of industry trends to identify novel solutions and frameworks and share this knowledge and recommendations with the team to incorporate into digital solutions and platforms.

Who you are

- Relevant tertiary qualification with subsequent relevant experience or equivalent competence gained through any combination of education, training and experience.
- Adobe certification preferred and AEP and AJO experience essential.
- Extensive engineering/development experience in at least one or more of the Adobe products listed above, with demonstrated leadership of enterprise‑scale implementations.
- Hands‑on experience with data management, audience segmentation and personalisation strategies.
- High‑level proficiency in working with data layers, tag management systems and tracking implementations, within complex, multi‑system environments.
- Strong understanding of customer data platforms, identity resolution and omnichannel marketing and their application within a large‑scale organisation.
- Extensive experience with cloud technologies, data pipelines and enterprise data governance principles, including automated testing and deployment for managing pipeline code and infrastructure.
- Experience working with Agile and other delivery methodologies and applying best practices, with demonstrated experience leading large cross‑functional delivery teams.
- Developed time‑management skills, with a demonstrated ability to respond to changing priorities and take on competing deadlines by using judgement and initiative.
- Highly developed stakeholder engagement, consultation,



influencing and negotiation skills, with a strong track record of building effective relationships and achieving successful outcomes across diverse groups.
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving and organisational skills, with the ability to exercise initiative and sound judgement, manage changing priorities, balance multiple tasks and deliver robust solutions within competing deadlines.
- An understanding of and commitment to UNSW’s aims, objectives and values in action, together with relevant policies and guidelines.
- Knowledge of health & safety (psychosocial and physical) responsibilities and commitment to attending relevant health and safety training. Pre‑employment checks required for this position.

Benefits and Culture

- Flexible Working Options (work from home, flexible hours etc).
- 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments.
- Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period.
- Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness).

Pre‑Employment Checks

- National and International Criminal history checks.
- Entitlement to work and ID checks.
- Working With Children Checks.
- Completion of a Gender‑Based Violence Prevention Declaration.
- Verification of relevant qualifications.
- Verification of relevant professional membership.
- Employment history and reference checks.
- Financial responsibility assessments/checks.
- Medical Checks and Assessments.

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to adaptable work options for eligible staff. The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.

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📌 Principal Adobe Engineer (City of Sydney)
🏢 University Of New South Wales
📍 City of Sydney