Engineering Manager - AI

Engineering Manager – Enterprise AI Enablement $230,000 – $240,000 + Bonus + Super

Major Australian Financial Services Organisation

This is a technical leadership role at the core of the organisation’s AI enablement division.

You will lead a high-performing software engineering team building the platforms that power enterprise AI, customer-facing AI products, and a centralised AI knowledge base used across the business. The focus is on real systems, real users, and real scale, not experiments.

The mandate is clear: build production-grade AI platforms, enable AI across the enterprise, and embed AI into how products and teams operate day-to-day.
You’ll inherit a team of ~15 engineers and be responsible for scaling the function rapidly while maintaining engineering quality, delivery velocity, and platform reliability.

Core Skills & Experience
  • Proven leadership of software engineering teams (15+ engineers) with a track record of scaling teams rapidly
  • Strong foundation as a hands-on software engineer building distributed, production-grade systems
  • Experience delivering AI-enabled platforms and data-intensive systems into live environments
  • Deep understanding of AI enablement architectures: agentic systems, RAG, AI platforms, and model lifecycle tooling
  • Platform engineering mindset across reliability, observability, security, testing, and resilience
  • Experience building customer-facing AI products and internal AI services at scale
  • Knowledge of enterprise knowledge systems and AI-driven knowledge platforms
  • Strong systems design capability across cloud-native and enterprise environments
  • Ability to operate across product, data, and platform teams to drive adoption and impact
  • Confident technical communicator who can lead through architecture, not hierarchy
This is for a technical leader who grew up as a software engineer, understands AI systems deeply, and leads from technical credibility.
If you’d like to explore this confidentially, apply or reach out directly for a discussion.
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