Principal Engineer

SG Fleet AU; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Recharge and relax wellness days (up t

Industry-leading 20 weeks paid Par ent

Monetary service milestone awards

Career progression opportunities

Learning budget per year and LinkedIn 

Two paid volunteer days each year

Health and wellbeing support with EAP

Job summary

SG Fleet AU seeks a technical authority for software engineering to set standards for design, testing, security, and delivery across Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. You will drive engineering best practices, champion AI, lead the Software Engineering Practice Group, and influence core architectural decisions.

You will lead high-performing teams, mentor senior engineers, and uplift SDLC processes and automation while maintaining strong communication across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with deep hands-on C#/.NET experience.
• Experience with React or similar frontend tech in medium-large environments.
• Proven pattern adoption and complex problem solving.
• Leading via influence, coaching senior engineers and tech leads.
• Improving engineering practice across multiple teams.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows.
• SDLC design, delivery processes, and measurable impact on speed/quality.
• Practical Azure, CI/CD, and modern SDLC practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication to produce adoptable guidance.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead high-performing engineering teams across regions.
• Develop and maintain the engineering competency framework.
• Mentor engineers through technical coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Set and improve coding, review, ALM, release, and quality standards.
• Drive DevOps automation and AI-driven delivery improvements.
• Advance use of approved AI across the SDLC and build reusable capabilities.
• Contribute to architecture, tech research, and design reviews.
• Enhance automated testing and secure coding practices.
• Govern security, dependencies, and risk; manage security incidents.
• Lead the Software Engineering Practice Group directing priorities and outputs.

Skills

C#/.NET

React

Polyglot engineer

Engineering leadership

AI tooling (Copilot)

SDLC improvement

Azure

CI/CD

Architectural decisions

Communication

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Description

This role is the technical authority for software engineering across SG Fleet globally, setting the standards for how software is designed, built, tested, secured and delivered. Working across Australia, New Zealand and the UK, you’ll drive engineering best practice, champion emerging technologies and AI, lead the Software Engineering Practice Group, and contribute to key architectural decisions.

Job Description

This role is the technical authority for software engineering across SG Fleet globally, setting the standards for how software is designed, built, tested, secured and delivered. Working across Australia, New Zealand and the UK, you’ll drive engineering best practice, champion emerging technologies and AI, lead the Software Engineering Practice Group, and contribute to key architectural decisions.

Job Requirements

• 10+ years’ software engineering experience as a polyglot engineer with deep, current, hands‑on expertise in .NET/C# and strong experience in React or a similar modern frontend technology, including production delivery in a medium-large commercial environment.
• Demonstrable experience solving complex technical problems where the solution was adopted as a pattern by other teams.
• Demonstrable experience leading engineers through influence rather than line authority, including coaching senior engineers and technical leads.
• Demonstrable experience lifting engineering practice across multiple teams, including standards, code review culture, testing discipline and developer enablement.
• Working experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot or equivalent), including agent‑based workflows, and a considered view on where they add value.
• Demonstrable expertise in SDLC improvement and refinement, designing and improving software delivery processes with measurable impact on delivery speed and quality.
• Practical experience with Azure, CI/CD pipelines and modern SDLC practices.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and in writing, with the ability to produce guidance that engineers adopt.

Job Responsibilities

• Build high-performing engineering teams across Australia, New Zealand and the UK, partnering with Technical Leads to establish and embed engineering best practices.
• Develop and maintain the engineering competency framework, defining expectations, identifying skill gaps and supporting development pathways.
• Mentor Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers through technical coaching, guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering standards across coding, code review, ALM, release management and quality governance.
• Drive DevOps automation and tooling improvements to enhance delivery efficiency and enable objective measurement of engineering productivity.
• Advance the use of approved AI across the software development lifecycle, identifying opportunities, driving adoption and building reusable AI capabilities.
• Contribute to solution architecture, technology research, proofs of concept and design reviews, ensuring approved architectural patterns are applied effectively.
• Uplift automated testing and secure coding practices across unit, integration, API and end‑to‑end testing.
• Govern code, dependency and security risk, including static analysis findings, third‑party dependencies and engineering support for security incidents.
• Lead the Software Engineering Practice Group, setting its direction, priorities and outputs.

Job Benefits

• Recharge and relax with up to 4 days of wellness days every year
• We offer industry leading 20 weeks paid parental leave
• Monetary service milestone awards
• Career progression opportunities
• Education support towards learning and development, includes a learning budget per year, free access to LinkedIn Learning and more
• Two paid volunteer days each year
• Health and wellbeing support including a subsidy and an Employee assistance Program