Principal Engineer - Wealth Platform

About the role

LGT Wealth Management, part of the LGT Group, is looking for a Principal Engineer to set technical direction and strengthen how software is designed, built and run across its Australian operations. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will be the senior technical authority for engineering, working with the Enterprise Architect, Solutions Engineering, product and delivery teams and LGT Group Technology. This is a senior, hands-on individual-contributor role leading through code, design, review and mentoring.

Key responsibilities

• Set and evolve engineering direction, standards and practices in line with enterprise architecture and group standards.
• Lead the design of complex systems and services, documenting architecture decisions, and write production-quality code and build prototypes.
• Build and improve the engineering paved road: reference architectures, service templates, shared libraries, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code modules.
• Raise quality through code and design reviews, automated testing and static analysis.
• Champion reliability and observability, and act as a senior escalation point for complex production issues.
• Embed secure-by-design and DevSecOps practices with Information Security.
• Make technical debt visible and lead pragmatic modernisation and refactoring.
• Improve developer experience and delivery flow, including responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Assess and provide technical due diligence on vendor, SaaS and Group platforms, holding partners to agreed engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers, help shape hiring standards and advise the CTO and business stakeholders on technical options and risks.

Required profile

• Extensive software engineering experience (typically 12+ years), including setting technical direction across multiple teams.
• Deep expertise in at least one modern language such as C#/.NET, Java, TypeScript or Python, with a strong record of writing and reviewing production code.
• Strong distributed systems design skills and hands-on cloud-native experience with Azure and/or AWS, including containers, serverless and infrastructure as code.
• Proven experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability and incident management.
• Ability to mentor and influence across teams and vendors without direct authority.
• Experience in financial services, regulated environments, wealth platforms, AI-assisted engineering or global technology operating models is highly regarded.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience; cloud or security certifications are advantageous.