About the Company

Join a leading organisation within the Australian banking sector, recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Our client has a vision of becoming Australia's leading digital business bank, empowering businesses and people to succeed with tomorrow's technology.

About the Role

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across the strategic platforms that underpin the client's capabilities. You will play a key role in shaping the engineering direction for core Lending platforms and supporting services, driving platform modernisation, AI-enabled engineering practices and resilient, scalable solutions that support the bank's lending operations.

You will bring deep technical expertise, strategic thinking and engineering leadership to help teams deliver high-quality technology safely at scale while partnering with Product, Architecture, Risk and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful outcomes.

The crew is responsible for the strategic evolution and operational excellence of platforms, while building modern integration services and automation capabilities that simplify lending processes and improve banker and customer experiences.

Reporting to the Crew Tech Lead, you'll work alongside architects, engineers, product managers and business stakeholders to modernise critical lending technology using cloud-native engineering practices and AI-assisted software development.

In this role, you will:

- Lead the technical direction for strategic platforms.
- Provide architectural leadership across core platforms and the surrounding integration ecosystem.
- Design scalable, secure and resilient services across APIs, backend platforms and enterprise integrations.




- Work closely with the Institutional Banking business to ensure the technology we deliver supports their customer outcomes
- Champion engineering excellence including AI-enabled SDLC, DevSecOps, observability, quality engineering and automation.
- Lead modernisation initiatives that simplify legacy technology and improve operational resilience.
- Build strong working relationships with the suppliers of our core platforms
- Mentor senior engineers and uplift engineering capability across the crew.

Together, we will build technology that supports lending decisions, pricing strategies and ESG outcomes while improving operational efficiency, regulatory compliance and customer experience.

About You

- Software engineering with technical leadership and coaching across multiple teams and strategic platforms.
- Experience delivering technology for lending, capital markets or financial services platforms.
- Experience modernising and integrating enterprise vendor platforms, including Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.
- Experience with LoanIQ or comparable enterprise lending platforms is highly regarded.
- Robust understanding of enterprise integration, operational resilience and regulated environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and adopting AI-enabled engineering practices.

Technical Skills

- Engineering: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices, Python, Next.js, React
- Cloud & Platforms: AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Cloud-Native Architecture
- Data & Streaming: SQL, NoSQL, Data Products, Oracle, Snowflake, Event Streaming
- DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Snyk
- Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty
- AI: Agentic AI architecture, AI-enabled engineering tools and Agentic SDLC

Please submit your current resume to apply. If you'd like a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Adnan​ Haidermota on [email protected], quoting reference JN -092026-44308. To learn more about Davidson, visit davidsonwp.com.

📌 Principal Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Davidson
📍 Sydney