An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Engineering Lead to lead a team of nine engineers delivering an AI-enabled automated patching and remediation capability across a large enterprise microservices environment.

You'll lead the initial pilot before scaling the solution across 250+ Java/Spring Boot APIs, combining hands-on engineering leadership with AI-assisted development, automated testing, vulnerability remediation and modern DevOps practices.

This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong Engineering Lead who wants to work at the intersection of AI, Java/Spring Boot, API engineering and automation.

What You'll Be Doing

- Lead a team of nine engineers delivering an automated API patching factory.
- Drive AI-first engineering practices across development, testing, code review and documentation.
- Scale automated patching and remediation across 250+ microservice APIs.
- Build reusable regression testing and automated quality frameworks.
- Automate Spring Boot dependency and security patching using Renovate.
- Lead remaining Spring Boot 3 to Spring Boot 4 migrations.
- Establish engineering standards across development, testing, security and CI/CD.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across Java, Spring Boot, APIs, AI and automation.
- Mentor engineers and work closely with architecture, SRE, testing and delivery teams.

What We're Looking For

- Strong Engineering Lead / Technical Lead experience in complex enterprise environments.
- Deep hands-on Java and Spring Boot expertise.
- Strong microservices, REST API and integration experience.




- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-based microservice environments.
- Practical experience using AI coding assistants throughout the software engineering lifecycle.
- Strong understanding of automated testing, CI/CD, DevOps and observability.
- Experience with event streaming and real-time integration.
- Robust technical design capability and experience establishing engineering standards.
- Experience with Renovate, automated dependency management or vulnerability remediation would be highly regarded.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to lead both onshore and offshore engineering teams.
- Contract: 6 months
- Rate: $950-$982 per day including super
- Environment: Large-scale enterprise integration and microservices environment
- Scope: Lead a team of nine engineers across an estate of 250+ APIs
- Lead a highly visible AI-first engineering and automation initiative.
- Take technical ownership of a large-scale 250+ API ecosystem.
- Work hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, AI-assisted engineering and automation.
- Lead and mentor an experienced engineering team.
- Drive modern engineering standards across testing, security, CI/CD and API development.
- Work on a program with tangible outcomes across security remediation, automation, and software quality.

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a technically challenging initiative focused on automating the security, maintenance and quality of a large enterprise API environment.

If you're a hands-on Engineering Lead with strong Java/Spring Boot foundations who is genuinely using AI and automation to improve software engineering at scale,

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📌 Engineering Lead - (Java & API Automation) (Queensland)
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📍 Queensland