Senior Software Engineer Sydney (AU) • Melbourne (AU)

LGT is the largest Private Banking and Asset Management group in the world to be owned by an entrepreneurial family. As the family office of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, we have years of experience in the management of sizeable sums of assets.

Your Responsibilities

• Design and build best-practice solutions and processes based on complex business requirements, ensuring alignment with our strategic goals. 

• Customise the Avaloq Core Platform functionalities, with a focus on AvaloqScript (ACP parameterisation), to meet the unique needs of our business and clients. 

• Share responsibility for the Avaloq codebase, refining and enforcing development best practices and concepts. 

• Support solution designs and review of new features, ensuring they align with system requirements and business needs. 

• Champion unit testing and build automated testing capabilities for everything you develop, ensuring high-quality releases. 

• Provide operational guidance to application support specialists, including incident management triage, release/change management, and system monitoring using tools. 

• Identify risks associated with changes made to the platform, communicating their implications to non-technical stakeholders clearly and effectively. 

• Actively participate in agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, retrospectives, prioritisation, and demos, to support continuous improvement. 

• Play back technical concepts in demos to business stakeholders in a relatable manner, bridging the gap between business and technology. 

• Develop deep technical knowledge across multiple functional business areas within the Avaloq Core Platform. 

• Support and lead efforts to influenceconsistent solution design, development, change management, and agile principles across the platform team. 

• Enforce and support technical audits wherever required, ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal standards. 

• Support the Quality Assurance team with the capability to define, implement, and maintain an automated testing suite for the Avaloq Core Platform. 

About You

• Certification as an Avaloq Certified Professional (ACP) is required. 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. 

• Agile certifications are highly desired. 

• Extensive experience in Avaloq development across multiple domains, including support of the Avaloq environment and codebase is required.  

• Experience working in the financial services industry, with a strong understanding of wealth management products and services (e.g., portfolio management, trading, settlement, payments, reconciliations, corporate actions). 

• Understanding of technologies like PL-SQL, Oracle SQL is a must.  

• Knowledge ofAvaloq RMWP Parameterisation, HTML, CSS, Angular, TypeScript, Java, J2EE, JDBC, SOAP, JavaScript, and Ergon or similar Web Application Firewall, Elasticsearch/Kibana, OpenShift/Kubernetes or monitoring/alerting tools such as Prometheus/Grafana is a bonus.  

• Familiarity with agilemethodologies and a strong understanding of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, including advocating for the use of tooling such as Confluence and Jira. 

• Proven ability to support incident management, release management, and system monitoring in an enterprise environment.