Principal Engineer - Pega

ASB Bank; Al `Asb; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the Makkah Region seeks an experienced Principal Engineer to solve complex engineering challenges and enhance the Pega Centre of Excellence. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in business process management platforms and strong technical leadership skills. This role offers career growth and a chance to make a meaningful impact. Join us today!

Benefits

Career Growth through training and internal opportunities

Inclusive Culture celebrating diversity

Health insurance and wellness support

Discounted banking and parental leave top-up

Opportunity to make a difference

Qualifications

• Proven experience in business process management platforms.
• Event streaming experience using Apache Kafka or Confluent Cloud.
• Strong knowledge in containerization, APIs, and CI/CD.
• Advanced understanding of AI tooling, especially within Pega.
• Deep knowledge of risk and security in large organizations.
• Expertise in transformational integration and delivery.
• Strong interpersonal skills for uplifting teams.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex engineering challenges and design solutions.
• Build and maintain ASB's Pega Centre of Excellence.
• Engage with technical and non-technical leaders.
• Drive engineering excellence within an agile environment.

Skills

Business process management platforms experience (Pega, Appian, IBM Suite)

Event streaming (Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud)

Containerisation, APIs, CI/CD skills

Advanced understanding of AI tooling

Knowledge of risk, security, and governance

Transformational integration and delivery expertise

Interpersonal and leadership skills

Ability to build trust

Job description

Overview

Principle Engineer - Pega

Mō Mātou | About us: At ASB, we believe progress is more than just financial. It's about helping New Zealanders, communities, and our environment thrive together. We're a purpose-led organisation with a proud history and a clear vision to support Kiwis in getting one step ahead. Our work is guided by strong values such as caring, integrity, courage, passion, and unity, and brought to life by a diverse team of people who genuinely care about making a difference. We're one of Aotearoa's most trusted banking partners, combining the stability and scale of a large organisation with a culture that ensures you're recognised as an individual. Your ideas, your growth, and your contribution matter here. You'll be supported to do meaningful work that has a real impact every day.

About the role

As a Principal Engineer, you'll solve complex engineering challenges and design solutions that uplift our entire Engineering Practice. You'll play a key role in building and maintaining ASB's Pega Centre of Excellence — working across a modernisation and integration programme that spans Pega, Data, CRM, and enterprise-scale integration. You'll bring technical and non-technical leaders on the journey by building trust, maintaining momentum, and removing roadblocks to deliver meaningful business outcomes. You'll be part of a tight-knit, autonomous, multi-disciplinary team of Principal Engineers driving engineering excellence across ASB. We work in agile ways and continuously grow our skills to improve outcomes for our customers.

Ō Pūkenga | About you

We're looking for a seasoned Engineering leader or Architect with experience in modern tech environments at scale. You'll bring initiative, problem-solving skills, and a collaborative leadership style.

You'll Have

• Proven experience in business process management platforms (e.g. Pega, Appian, IBM Suite)
• Event streaming experience (e.g. Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud)
• Strong knowledge of containerisation, APIs, and CI/CD for data workload management
• Advanced understanding of AI tooling and trends (e.g. generative AI, MLOps, agentic AI), especially within Pega
• Deep knowledge of risk, security, and governance in large organisations
• Expertise in transformational integration and delivery
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills — able to uplift engineers and stakeholders
• Ability to switch context, learn fast, build trust, and take people on the journey

Te mahi ki ASB | Working for ASB

ASB's sense of who we are and what we stand for is grounded in our values. They guide our business in our day-to-day interactions with our team, customers and community. They are what makes ASB — ASB.

• Career Growth: Access to learning and development through training sessions, courses, and internal opportunities
• Inclusive Culture: Join values-led teams that celebrate diversity and support employee-led communities
• Health & Wellbeing: Southern Cross Wellbeing One health insurance, lifestyle and volunteering leave, and mental wellbeing support
• Meaningful Benefits: Enjoy discounted banking, insurance, and a generous parental leave top-up
• Impactful Work: Be part of a purpose-led organisation that makes a difference for New Zealanders

Join us and make a difference - apply today!