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ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you're joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you'll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.

We are more than a securities exchange The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. We run critical market infrastructure with a large technology footprint and a range of disciplines across operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We're proud of the diversity of our organisation and the culture of inclusion that all our people help to build every day. Our employee-led groups celebrate cultural and religious events, champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, inspire giving and volunteering, promote gender equality, and wellbeing. We are an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for the advancement of gender equality in Australia.

The Principal Engineer will take a leading role in the development of our Products and Channels, designing, building and supporting the next generation of digital engagement. They will establish the technical solutions design for digital products and services across multiple domains at ASX, establishing the technical design and full stack architectural patterns for data-driven, modern, flexible, secure and highly resilient engagement points. They will work with a full stack team to enable the realisation of modern, sophisticated and simple digital experiences for our internal and external stakeholders.

The Digital and Enterprise Technology team delivers compelling experiences through digital engagement platforms that support our customer-centric digital strategy, driving growth, leading in innovation and continuous improvement. Our team brings together quality engineering, product leadership and our customers to realise our purpose.

• See the big picture - Establish the technical solutions for our digital products and services enabling re-use, flexibility and scale and accelerating our ability to build compelling products and services.
• Ideate - evolve and re-imagine our technology stack ensuring resilient and modern functionality is maintained while clearing the way for the next horizon of innovation.
• Connect - Build strong relationships with our product, engineering, cyber, data and delivery stakeholders. Research and learn, bringing in innovative thought leadership to the team and driving designs that are contextual given our current landscape, our regulatory obligations and our future goals.
• Measure everything – enable consistent and coherent monitoring and analytics capabilities, enabling the collection and use of data from all of our products to identify issues, monitor performance and measurably improve our platform.
• Build – directly contribute to engineering, engineering practices, correction and support and work in close partnership with your product and engineering team members to build and experiment cohesive products and services, delivering frequently, efficiently and safely based on codified patterns, controlled pipelines and automated quality frameworks.
• Assure, run and manage – support the team across quality engineering enabling consistent patterns, assessment of quality and improvements to designs to simplify our landscape, eliminate waste and to operate and run manage the platforms safely. A hands-on problem solver that deeply understands the technology landscape within which we operate.
• The role is required for our Public access channels, Subscription channels, our Data & Innovation Squads and our Enterprise Enablement team.

Must have

• Bachelor's degree – Comp Science, Data, Finance or Tech / Masters +
• 10-15+ years relevant experience
• Stakeholder management, influence and engaging across technology, architecture and business teams with executive presence.
• Product development, solutions design, service design, technical solutions, functional and non-functional requirements, testing for complex financial engagement.
• Cloud, integration, data exchange, platform architecture, hands on engineering expertise, scalable platforms and products, componentised and service based design.
• CI-CD, control and unit testing, production ready applications, microservices, automation, troubleshooting, tuning and performance, secure coding and data/application protection.

Nice to have

• AI experience and skills
• Direct experience in capital markets
• Cloud certification, Business or Product certification
• Customer domain experience, compliance and risk experience, regulatory environment experience.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you'll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the criteria of this role. If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know.

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks completed as part of the onboarding process.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

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