Lead Software Engineer

LGT Private Banking

Lead Software Engineer responsible for Avaloq ecosystem at LGT Wealth Management. Lead design, integration, and operational maturity across banking capabilities.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeSydney • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularElasticSearchGrafanaJ2EEJavaJavaScriptKubernetesOpenShiftOraclePrometheusSDLCSOAPSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead Avaloq engineering by setting technical direction, defining engineering standards and ensuring high levels of code quality, documentation, testing and release readiness.
Provide leadership across the Avaloq codebase to maintain consistency, integrity and long‑term sustainability.
Drive major technical decisions for platform enhancements, integrations, client‑facing capabilities and automation initiatives.
Design and deliver complex solutions that meet business and regulatory requirements, including Avaloq Core Platform configuration, AvaloqScript / ACP parameterisation and integration design.
Guide end‑to‑end architecture across Avaloq, ESB, APIs, IAM, reporting and downstream systems, assessing risks, trade‑offs and long‑term impacts.
Act as the senior engineering owner for platform stability and operational excellence, partnering with support teams on incident triage, root‑cause analysis, release/change management and environment readiness.
Improve monitoring, logging, alerting and operational runbooks, and proactively identify and communicate platform risks.
Support audit, compliance and control activities across the engineering lifecycle.
Champion engineering quality by driving automated testing, validation controls, regression protection and consistent quality gates.
Lead adoption of test automation patterns and collaborate with QA on SIT, UAT and production readiness strategies.
Mentor and uplift engineers, supporting capability development, recruitment, workforce planning and technical assessments.
Foster a collaborative, accountable and improvement‑focused team culture.
Lead agile delivery and stakeholder engagement by contributing to planning, prioritisation, retrospectives, demos and design workshops.
Translate technical concepts into clear language for business stakeholders and build strong relationships across business, operations, architecture, security and external partners.
Influence prioritisation by making technical complexity, dependencies and risks visible.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive hands-on experience in Avaloq development across multiple functional domains.
Deep expertise in Avaloq Core Platform, including platform configuration, codebase stewardship and production support.
Strong experience in AvaloqScript / ACP parameterisation and enterprise solution delivery in an Avaloq environment.
Strong technical knowledge of Oracle SQL and PL/SQL.
Proven experience leading engineering design and delivery for complex enterprise platforms.
Demonstrated ability to operate as a senior technical leader in financial services or a similarly regulated environment.
Strong understanding of SDLC, agile delivery practices, change control, release management and operational support.
Proven capability to lead engineers, influence stakeholders and drive consistent engineering standards.
Experience in wealth management platforms and related business capabilities such as onboarding, trading, settlement, payments, reconciliations, corporate actions, client reporting and digital servicing is highly desirable.
Experience with Avaloq-related web and integration technologies such as RMWP parameterisation, HTML, CSS, Angular, TypeScript, Java, J2EE, JDBC, SOAP, REST and JavaScript is also highly desirable.
Familiarity with security and infrastructure components relevant to Avaloq ecosystems, such as Ergon or similar WAF, IAM integrations, OpenShift / Kubernetes, Elasticsearch / Kibana, Prometheus / Grafana or equivalent observability tooling is a plus.
Experience with event-driven and middleware-based integrations, including XML, APIs and enterprise service bus patterns is also preferred.
Experience modernising engineering practices in legacy or core platform environments is added advantage.

Benefits

Comp & perks

LGT Wealth Management is committed to the ongoing development of their employees.
Your development will be managed and tailored to your role and future career path.
LGT Wealth Management is an equal opportunity employer committed to embracing a diverse and inclusive work environment.
We aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their gender, marital/parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Avaloq developmentAvaloq Core PlatformAvaloqScriptOracle SQLPL/SQLHTMLCSSAngularTypeScriptJava

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringstakeholder engagementcollaborationcommunicationinfluenceaccountabilityimprovement focustechnical assessmentteam culture