Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer - Customer Innovation
Your New Role

As a Creative Technologist, you will lead technical discovery and innovation for customer-facing solutions. Working closely with product and design teams, you’ll identify high-impact opportunities and rapidly prototype ideas to validate concepts. You’ll act as a thought leader and a technical leading figure within a small, agile team focused on incubating innovation—not building full-scale products.

Key Responsibilities
  • Product Discovery: Collaborate with the Customer Innovations team to explore emerging technologies and new ideas.
  • Solution Development: Build quick, effective prototypes to address high-priority customer problems.
  • Technical Leadership: Guide a growing team, including graduates, and provide strategic technical direction.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Partnering with retail and business banking leads to aligning innovation with business needs.
  • Trend-spotting: Stay ahead of emerging tech trends and bring cutting-edge thinking to the team.
What You'll Need to Succeed
  • Hands-on technologist with a creative, generalist mindset.
  • Strong frontend experience (customer-facing proof-of-concepts)
  • Experience in leading tech companies
  • Excellent communication skills – able to translate technical concepts into a customer-friendly language.
Team & Culture
  • Small, agile team with plans to scale.
  • Highly collaborative and innovation-focused.
  • Emphasis on communication and culture fit.
  • Not building full-scale products – focused on incubating ideas and driving innovation.
Innovation Focus
  • Leading GenAI innovation within the bank.
  • Exploring new technologies and their application in financial services.
  • Acting as a tech lead for the Customer Innovations team.


What you need to do now


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LHS 297508

Summary

Job Type
Permanent
Industry
Banking & Financial Services
Location
NSW - Sydney CBD
Specialism
Software Development
Pay
DOE
Ref:
2943342

Talk to a consultant

Talk to Jack Jenkins, the specialist consultant managing this position, located in Sydney City
Level 13, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square

Telephone: 0292492261

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