Technology Lead

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd in Brisbane is seeking a Technology Lead to own end-to-end technical architecture for critical digital platforms. This hands-on leadership role requires ensuring secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions aligned with business goals.

You will mentor engineers, define design patterns, and guide multi-cloud (AWS & Azure) strategies, CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, and IaC with Terraform. Strong backend and frontend capabilities including .NET and React are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience as Technical Lead / Principal Engineer in cloud-native platforms.
• Proficiency in .NET development.
• Strong ReactJS front-end knowledge.
• Hands-on DevOps with CI/CD and IaC practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and design decisions aligned with business outcomes.
• Define and enforce reusable design patterns and frameworks.
• Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
• Ensure security by design, scalability, and resilience.
• Lead and review feature-level technical designs.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering frameworks and practices.
• Lead complex internal and external system integrations.
• Remain hands-on across backend, frontend, cloud, and CI/CD.

Skills

Technical Leadership

.NET

ReactJS

Terraform

DevOps

Mentoring

Architecture

Security by design

Cloud (AWS & Azure)

DDD

Tools

GitLab

CI/CD pipelines

IaC tooling

Job description

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract

Technology Lead

Brisbane, Australia | Posted on 09/10/2026

• XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in 2016, is a Software Services company
  
• XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.
  
• We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.
  
• XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.
  
• We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.
  

Job Description

Role Purpose

The Dev/Tech (Principal) Lead owns the end‑to‑endtechnical architecture and engineering standards for business‑criticaldigital platforms. This role is a hands‑on technical leadership position,not a people‑only lead, responsible for ensuring solutions are secure,scalable, cloud‑native, and aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Technical & Architectural Leadership

• Drive architecture and design decisions aligned with business outcomes.
  
• Defineand enforce reusable design patterns and frameworks.
  
• Apply Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) principles.
  
• Ensure security by design, scalability, and resilience.
  
• Leadand review feature‑level technical designs.
  
• Driveadoption of modern engineering frameworks and practices.
  
• Leadcomplex internal and external system integrations.
  
• Remainhands‑on where needed across backend, frontend, cloud, and CI/CD.
  

Cloud, DevOps & Automation

• Architectand optimize multi‑cloud solutions (AWS & Azure).
  
• Defineand govern CI/CD standards and reusable pipelines in GitLab.
  
• Mentorteams on IaC best practices using Terraform.
  
• Establishrelease management governance.
  

Observability, Performance & Cost

• Establish observability frameworks (logging, monitoring, alerting).
  
• Monitorperformance, reliability, and availability using cloud‑nativemonitoring services.
  
• Drive cost optimization, capacity monitoring, and performance tuning.
  
• Automateoperational and service management tasks.
  

Quality, Testing & FrontendLeadership

• Definetesting strategies across unit, integration, and E2E testing.
  
• Ensuretesting is embedded in CI/CD.
  
• Overseeadvanced frontend practices including React optimization and ModuleFederation.
  
• Enforceaccessibility and quality standards.
  

Data & Platform Design

• Definedata strategies:
  
• Relationalvs NoSQL selection.
  
• Shardingand partitioning for NoSQL where applicable.
  
• Ensure HA/DR, scalability, and resilience.
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Provenexperience as a Technical Lead / Principal Engineer in cloud‑nativeplatforms.
  
• .NET
  
• ReactJS
  
• Terraform
  
• StrongDevOps mindset with hands‑on CI/CD experience.
  
• Abilityto mentor Senior and Junior engineers at a technical level.
  
• Strongunderstanding of service management, automation, and operations.
  
• Mustperform Dev Lead or Tech Lead duties, not just coordination.
  
• Mustbe capable of delivering architecture and designs without client FTEdependency.
  
• Accountablefor solution quality, performance, cost, and operational readiness.
  
• Actsas the technical authority for the delivery.