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Principal Software Architect

Sydney, New South WalesFull-time2026-10-06 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid

Core

Principal Software Architect providing architectural oversight and technical leadership for distributed engineering teams, focusing on data architecture, the SDAP platform, and services.

Role type

Principal Software Architect (Data Architecture focus)

Builds

Scalable, cohesive, future-ready data platforms, pipelines, and services for the property intelligence ecosystem.

Domain

Property technology / Real estate data

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Data architecture design, cloud-native distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data modeling, large-scale platform design, technical mentorship, cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

Property technology domain, financial services, product-led environment, modern data stack (data lakes, streaming)

Responsibilities

Define and govern enterprise data architecture strategy; Partner with Data Engineering to design and evolve solutions; Provide architectural leadership balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability; Establish and enforce best practices in data architecture and system design; Provide technical mentorship to engineers and architects; Contribute to practical solution designs.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic oversight