Technical Application Engineering Lead

North Sydney

Australia

Technology

Full time

8/12/2025

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Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Technical Application Engineering Lead to lead our data engineering projects, focusing on cloud enablement for our applications and data. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, strong leadership skills, and a strategic mindset to deliver scalable and efficient solutions for complex business problems.

What you'll do

• Lead Data Engineering projects for cloud enablement of apps and data
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures
• Deliver solutions for complex business problems through software standard SDLC
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed
• Build and manage strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale
• Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters
• Provide deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure
• Leverage strong experience in full stack software development and public cloud like GCP and AWS
• Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers
• Lead with a data/metrics driven mindset with a maniacal focus towards optimizing and creating efficient solutions
• Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs
• Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams
• Collaborate with architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices
• Drive up-to-date technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books
• Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity
• Responsible for implementation architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions
• Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate

What experience you need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ of professional experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience in writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, SpringBoot, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Strong experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure and experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions
• Extensive experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience in deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs
• 5+ years experience in SFTP (Globalscape etc.) tools

What could set you apart

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong leadership qualities
• Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts
• Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps
• Experience overseeing yearly as well as product/project budgets
• Working in a highly regulated environment
• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others
• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap)
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA and Microservices
• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.
• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+)
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI

We believe that when we're at our best, we can do our best. Equifax offers policies and programs that support our employees' financial and personal wellbeing with additional leave days, hybrid working environment, employee assistance program and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

Are you ready to power your possible? Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference

Who is Equifax?

At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence.

We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life's pivotal moments: applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.

Equifax is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.