6 hours ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set and evolve engineering direction, standards, and practices across multiple teams.
- Design complex systems and services, including APIs, data models, integrations, performance, and scalability.
- Write production-quality code, build prototypes, and take on high-risk technical work.
- Build engineering reference architectures, service templates, shared libraries, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code modules.
- Raise engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, automated testing, static analysis, and delivery standards.
- Improve reliability and operability through observability, resilience practices, service level objectives, incident reviews, and production escalation support.
- Embed secure-by-design and DevSecOps practices in partnership with Information Security.
- Lead technical-debt reduction, modernization, refactoring, and incremental migration efforts.
- Improve developer experience and delivery flow using performance measures, evidence-led experiments, and responsible AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Assess vendor, SaaS, and Group platforms for technical fit, APIs, extensibility, integration quality, security posture, and exit options.
- Mentor engineers, develop technical leaders, contribute to hiring standards, and advise technical and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Typically 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience setting technical direction across multiple teams as a principal, staff, or senior technical lead.
- Deep expertise in at least one modern programming language such as C#/.NET, Java, TypeScript, or Python, with strong production coding and code-review experience.
- Strong distributed-systems design skills covering APIs, event-driven integrations, data models, performance, and resilience.
- Hands-on cloud-native engineering experience with Azure and/or AWS, including containers, serverless, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, modern delivery practices, observability, and incident management.
- Grounding in secure software engineering and the ability to balance delivery speed, quality, risk, and cost.
- Ability to mentor and influence teams and vendors without direct authority.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience in financial services or regulated environments, wealth platforms, AI-assisted engineering, or global technology operating models is highly regarded.
- Cloud or security certifications are advantageous.
Benefits
- Ongoing employee development managed and tailored to the role and future career path.
- Equal opportunity and commitment to a diverse and inclusive work environment.
About LGT Group
LGT Group is an international private bank and asset manager serving high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, foundations, and financial intermediaries. It offers private banking, wealth planning, investment solutions (including sustainable and impact strategies), and access to private markets. Founded in 1920 and headquartered in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, LGT is privately owned by the Princely Family of Liechtenstein and operates from 30+ locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.