An established Australian financial services organisation is hiring a hands‐on Engineering Manager to lead and scale its applied AI capability.
This is a newly created role focused on building and embedding AI‐driven solutions into core business systems. You'll lead a small team while remaining technical, working across software engineering, cloud infrastructure and modern AI tooling.
The organisation operates in a regulated environment at meaningful scale and is investing in AI to drive operational efficiency, smarter workflows and improved customer outcomes.
The role
* Lead and mentor a small team of engineers
* Design and manage AI‐specific infrastructure and environments
* Build and deploy end‐to‐end AI solutions integrated into internal platforms
* Develop intelligent workflows using Python and modern AI tooling
* Drive discovery, architecture, build and deployment
* Partner with platform and infrastructure teams
* Establish best practices for testing, monitoring and reliability
About you
* Strong software engineering foundation
* Experience leading or mentoring engineers
* Experience with AI orchestration, agent frameworks and RAG patterns
* AWS and Infrastructure‐as‐Code experience
* Docker and Kubernetes exposure
* Strong solution design capability and stakeholder engagement skills
This role is focused on engineering implementation and integration rather than ML research.
Why consider it
* Newly created AI leadership role with genuine ownership
* Real production impact across the business, not just experimentation
* Hybrid working model in Sydney
* High‐growth, profitable fintech with strong market position
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