Senior Engineer/ Tech Lead

Macquarie Bank Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave day

Parental leave up to 20 weeks

Flexible working arrangements

Volunteer leave

Salary packaging options

Learning and development support

Job summary

Macquarie Bank Limited is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a team delivering Cloud-first solutions across public and private markets. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with product and business teams to drive reliable, scalable outcomes.

The role focuses on people leadership, delivery excellence, and clear technical direction, with hybrid and flexible working arrangements in a global financial services firm that values impact and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 10+ years technology experience in finance or asset management domains.
• 3+ years in formal engineering leadership.
• Experience delivering cloud-first solutions at enterprise scale.
• Strong problem-solving and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers across public and private markets initiatives.
• Set technical direction and review solution designs.
• Partner with product owners and central/platform teams to deliver outcomes.
• Ensure reliability, security by design, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud platforms

Python

React.js

Finance domain experience

Team mentoring

CI/CD

Incident management

Job description

Lead high‑performing engineers who deliver Cloud‑first solutions across public and private markets for our global asset management business.

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

You will lead a team of high‑performing engineers across initiatives that span our public and private markets businesses. The focus is people leadership, delivery excellence, and clear technical direction. You will contribute to solution design decisions, provide technical guidance, partner with engineering leads on technology strategy, and take ownership of outcomes, ways of working, reliability, and continuous improvement to support the strategic objectives of the organisation.

What you offer

• 10 + years of technology experience in any programming language, with Python and React.js highly regarded.
• Relevant Finance experience is required, with Asset Management or Capital Markets experience being mandatory, and working knowledge of Transaction Reporting highly regarded.
• 3+ years’ experience in formal engineering leadership, such as engineering lead or mentoring junior engineers, with a proven track record of managing an engineering team.
• Ability to align priorities and deliver outcomes with product owners, business analysts, business stakeholders, and central/platform teams.
• Proven delivery of complex initiatives in an agile environment with strong problem‑solving and balanced trade‑offs across scope, risk, quality, and timelines.
• Current knowledge of cloud platforms and CI/CD, with AWS, Azure, or GCP highly regarded, and experience operating at enterprise scale.
• Solid grasp of Secure‑by‑Design and solution design patterns, with experience in incident, problem, and change management and in remediating technical debt; knowledge of asset management is highly regarded.

What we offer

At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for non-primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Technology

Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Inclusion at Macquarie

We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.