Principal Engineer - Advice Technology

Insignia Financial; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the evolution of our Advice Technology platform in Melbourne. You will set engineering direction, influence enterprise decisions and tackle complex problems that drive platform modernization and AI-enabled innovation across the organisation.

You will lead strategy and hands-on delivery, lifting engineering standards while collaborating with architecture, product, security and technology teams.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in software engineering for complex environments.
• Proven ability to modernise and lead platform delivery at scale.
• Strong grasp of modern engineering principles including architecture, integration, scalability and security.

Responsibilities

• Drive modernisation of Advice Technology platforms, setting engineering direction and ensuring quality.
• Define and embed engineering standards, patterns and best practices as teams scale.
• Lead complex technical decision-making balancing innovation, risk and delivery.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform delivery

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

API-led environments

Architectural design

Job description

Principal Engineer

Advice Technology

• Lead the direction. Influence the outcome. Leave your mark.
• Put your fingerprints on the future to progress your career
• Make a difference, make it meaningful

This is a true platform shaping role where you’ll define how one of Insignia Financial’s most critical technology environments evolves over the next few years.

The opportunity to join our team

With a major uplift in Advice Technology underway and a clear roadmap for the platform’s evolution, we’re looking for a Principal Engineer who can operate at both altitude and at depth. Setting engineering direction, influencing enterprise decisions, and stepping in where it matters to make complex problems move.

This role has been created to drive the strategic modernisation of core Advice Technology capabilities, bringing modern engineering thinking, best-in-class solutions and AI-enabled innovation into a platform at the centre of how we deliver advice to customers. This is deliberate, long-term platform evolution.

You’ll play a key role in evolving platform capability, lifting engineering standards and shaping how we build at scale. It’s a role that sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, with real influence across both the platform and the broader technology landscape.

What you will be doing

The role its across strategy, engineering leadership and hands on delivery influence, shaping platform direction while staying close to the work.

• Drive the modernisation of core Advice Technology platforms, setting engineering direction and maintaining close oversight of delivered solutions to ensure engineering standards, best practices and quality expectations are consistently met
• Define and embed engineering standards, patterns and best practices, uplifting consistency and capability as the team scales
• Lead complex technical decision-making, balancing innovation, risk and delivery while addressing technical debt and legacy challenges
• Introduce and embed modern engineering approaches, including automation, AI-enabled capability and secure-by-design principles
• Stay hands-on where it matters, solving complex problems, guiding teams through ambiguity and shaping early-stage solutions
• Influence across the enterprise, partnering with architecture, product, security and technology teams to align platform direction

What you will bring

You’re already operating at Principal level, this is about depth, breadth and influence.

• Extensive experience in software engineering, platform delivery or technical leadership within complex environments
• Proven ability to modernise business critical platforms and influence technical direction
• Strong understanding of modern engineering principles (architecture, integration, scalability, resilience, security)
• Experience working across distributed systems and API-led environments
• Ability to operate across both strategic thinking and hands-on problem solving
• Strong stakeholder influence - able to engage, challenge and align senior technical audiences

People-inspired tech

Deep expertise combined with creativity can take on the trickiest of problems. Join our team of brilliant minds and mentors as we explore our way to innovation and apply technology in more human ways than ever.

Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

Please note that applications from agencies will not be considered at this time.

We acknowledge and celebrate the richness that individual differences bring to our team.