Principal Engineer

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.

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.
• Champion engineering excellence including AI-enabled SDLC, DevSecOps, observability, quality engineering and automation.
• Build strong working relationships with the suppliers of our core platforms
• Mentor senior engineers and uplift engineering capability across the crew.

About You

• Software engineering with technical leadership and coaching across multiple teams and strategic platforms.
• Experience delivering technology for financial services platforms.
• Experience with LoanIQ or comparable enterprise lending platforms is highly regarded.
• Strong 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.