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Principal Software Engineer, Customer Channels, Data & AI

JobtailorSydney, New South Wales🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 30 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Leader

Job Description

  • Lead the design, evolution and delivery of scalable, resilient platforms supporting customer and banker experiences.
  • Drive architecture and engineering decisions across multiple squads and technology domains.
  • Establish reusable engineering patterns, frameworks and standards that improve delivery speed and quality.
  • Shape platform strategy across cloud, APIs, customer engagement services, workflow orchestration and AI-enabled capabilities.
  • Champion modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, observability, CI/CD and automated testing.
  • Partner with product, architecture, risk and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes.
  • Ensure security, privacy, operational resilience and responsible AI principles are embedded into platform design and delivery.
  • Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
Requirements
  • Experience operating as a Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer or senior technical leader within complex enterprise environments.
  • A strong track record designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems and platform capabilities.
  • Strong engineering judgement with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands on technical leadership.
  • Experience leading architecture decisions across cloud-native, API-driven or customer-facing platforms.
  • The ability to influence senior stakeholders across engineering, product, architecture, risk and business teams.
  • Experience establishing engineering standards, reusable patterns and platform strategies across multiple teams.
  • Strong mentoring and coaching capability, with a passion for growing engineering talent.
  • Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI-enabled customer experiences, automation and modern digital platforms.
Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and delivering scalable, resilient platforms with a focus on cloud, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities. Proven ability to lead architecture decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineering talent in complex enterprise environments.

Highest signal resume keywords
  • Principal Engineer Experience
  • Large-Scale Distributed Systems Design
  • Cloud Native Architecture Leadership
  • Engineering Standards Establishment
  • Mentoring and Coaching Capability
ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills
  • Platform Design
  • Architecture Decisions
  • Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Technologies
  • API Development
  • DevSecOps Practices
  • CI/CD Implementation
  • Automated Testing
  • Engineering Patterns
  • AI-Enabled Capabilities
Soft Skills
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Technical Leadership
  • Influencing Stakeholders
  • Curiosity
  • Enthusiasm for Automation
Industry Keywords
  • Enterprise Environments
  • Customer Engagement Services
  • Workflow Orchestration
  • Operational Resilience
  • Security and Privacy Principles

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