Senior Wealth Platform Architect & Technical Leader

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited; Greater Bendigo; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited is seeking a Principal Engineer in the Wealth domain. This role provides architectural leadership across multiple squads, shaping long‑term technical vision for consumer wealth platforms while combining hands‑on engineering with strategic influence.

You will bridge business strategy and engineering, drive improvements for security, scalability, and reliability, and mentor engineers while advancing interfaces, testing, observability, and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Proven ability in software architecture, integrated and distributed systems design, and large‑scale platform evolution.
• Demonstrated hands‑on engineering capabilities across COBOL, .NET, Java, and advanced SQL.
• Strong knowledge of consumer wealth operations, including leveraged equities/margin lending and fund management.
• Familiarity with market connectivity protocols, clearing and settlement operations (e.g., ASX CHESS).
• Deep expertise in resilience, observability, performance optimization, and security‑by‑design for financial transaction systems.
• Outstanding communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to translate technical complexities into clear business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of core systems for Leveraged Margin Lending and Sandhurst Trustees Fund Management.
• Shape technical direction by simplifying complexity through modularisation, decoupling, and defining strong interface contracts.
• Act as the primary technical translator, bridging the gap between complex wealth business concepts and robust engineering architectures.
• Promote and embed best practices in testing, observability, security, performance, and CI/CD.
• Uplift engineering quality by systematically reducing technical debt across core processes, APIs, and applications.
• Act as a senior mentor and technical coach to engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems design

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Communication

Tools

COBOL

.NET

Java

SQL

Job description

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited is seeking a Principal Engineer in the Wealth domain. This role provides architectural leadership across multiple squads, shaping long‑term technical vision for consumer wealth platforms while combining hands‑on engineering with strategic influence.

You will bridge business strategy and engineering, drive improvements for security, scalability, and reliability, and mentor engineers while advancing interfaces, testing, observability, and CI/CD practices.