Job Description
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.
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Key Responsibilities
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Technical & Architectural Leadership
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Drive architecture and design decisions aligned with business outcomes.
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Define and enforce reusable design patterns and frameworks.
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Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
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Ensure security by design, scalability, and resilience.
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Lead and review feature-level technical designs.
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Drive adoption of modern engineering frameworks and practices.
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Lead complex internal and external system integrations.
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Remain hands-on where needed across backend, frontend, cloud, and CI/CD.
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Cloud, DevOps & Automation
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Architect and optimize multi-cloud solutions (AWS & Azure).
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Define and govern CI/CD standards and reusable pipelines in GitLab.
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Mentor teams on IaC best practices using Terraform.
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Establish release management governance.
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Observability, Performance & Cost
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Establish observability frameworks (logging, monitoring, alerting).
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Monitor performance, reliability, and availability using cloud-native monitoring services.
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Drive cost optimization,



capacity monitoring, and performance tuning.
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Automate operational and service management tasks.
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Quality, Testing & Frontend Leadership
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Define testing strategies across unit, integration, and E2E testing.
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Ensure testing is embedded in CI/CD.
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Oversee advanced frontend practices including React optimization and Module Federation.
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Enforce accessibility and quality standards.
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Data & Platform Design
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Relational vs NoSQL selection.
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Normalized and denormalized schema design.
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Sharding and partitioning for NoSQL where applicable.
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Ensure HA/DR, scalability, and resilience.
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Required Skills & Experience
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Proven experience as a Technical Lead / Principal Engineer in cloud-native platforms.
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Deep expertise in:
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.NET
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ReactJS
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Terraform
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Strong DevOps mindset with hands-on CI/CD experience.
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Ability to mentor Senior and Junior engineers at a technical level.
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Robust understanding of service management, automation, and operations.
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Must perform Dev Lead or Tech Lead duties, not just coordination.
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Must be capable of delivering architecture and designs without client FTE dependency.
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Accountable for solution quality, performance, cost, and operational readiness.
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Acts as the technical authority for the delivery.
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📌 Technology Lead (Queensland)
🏢 XPT Software
📍 Queensland