Lead Principal Software Engineer — Lending Platforms

cba; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across institutional lending platforms. You will steer strategic direction for Lending, Pricing and ESG capabilities and mentor senior engineers in a cloud-native environment.

You will collaborate with Architecture, Risk and Product to deliver scalable, secure services, modernise legacy systems, and drive AI-assisted software development in a regulated banking setting.

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering scalable, secure financial platforms.
• Experience leading multiple teams on strategic platform modernization.
• Strong collaboration with product, risk and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction for strategic Lending, Pricing and ESG platforms.
• Provide architectural leadership across core Lending 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 supports 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 suppliers of core platforms.
• Mentor senior engineers and uplift engineering capability across the crew.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architectural leadership

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder management

Cloud architecture

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

Python

Next.js

React

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

Docker

Oracle

Snowflake

Event Streaming

GitHub Actions

Artifactory

Snyk

Grafana

Prometheus

PagerDuty

Job description

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across institutional lending platforms. You will steer strategic direction for Lending, Pricing and ESG capabilities and mentor senior engineers in a cloud-native environment.

You will collaborate with Architecture, Risk and Product to deliver scalable, secure services, modernise legacy systems, and drive AI-assisted software development in a regulated banking setting.