Senior Technical Lead Engineer, Wealth Platform

Macquarie Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave day

Parental leave

Volunteer leave

EAP & wellbeing benefits

Learning & development

Hybrid working

Equipment reimbursement

Job summary

Macquarie Group is seeking a Technical Lead Engineer to guide the design, delivery and operation of cloud-native Java applications across the Wealth Platform. You will own end-to-end delivery, from architecture through production, while mentoring engineers and maintaining platform reliability.

You will work closely with product managers and analysts, drive engineering excellence, and contribute to on-call incident management in a hybrid, Australia-wide environment.

Qualifications

• Design and deliver Java-based cloud applications with Spring Boot and relational databases.
• Build cloud-native solutions and distributed systems using modern engineering practices.
• Familiar with AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
• Understand microservices, SOA, and scalable, resilient architectures.
• Deliver high-performing, maintainable systems in complex environments.
• Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Guide technical execution and end-to-end delivery of projects across the Wealth Platform.
• Own architecture decisions, production deployment, and operational reliability.
• Mentor engineers through coaching and knowledge sharing; participate in on-call rotation.
• Lead design decisions and maintain engineering excellence across the team.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Relational DBs

Cloud-native

Microservices

CI/CD

Site Reliability

Security & Compliance

Stakeholder Management

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

APIs

SQL/NoSQL

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Macquarie Group is seeking a Technical Lead Engineer to guide the design, delivery and operation of cloud-native Java applications across the Wealth Platform. You will own end-to-end delivery, from architecture through production, while mentoring engineers and maintaining platform reliability.

You will work closely with product managers and analysts, drive engineering excellence, and contribute to on-call incident management in a hybrid, Australia-wide environment.