Job Description
Senior Manager, AI Engineering
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Sydney NSW (hybrid)
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Full time, permanent
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Build an AI engineering team from the ground up
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A hands‐on leadership role: stay close to the code
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Executive sponsorship and genuine enterprise scale
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A large, well‐established Australian financial services organisation is investing seriously in AI across the way it builds and runs technology. It is appointing a hands‐on Senior Manager to build and lead a new AI engineering team, hire the engineers, and put AI to work across how its technology products are delivered.
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This is a builder's leadership role. You set the direction, you still write and review code, and you grow a small team into a capability the wider technology function relies on.
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What you will do
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Build, hire and lead an AI engineering team, starting small and growing it.
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Put AI to work across how software gets delivered: AI‐assisted coding, testing, requirements and design, and the tooling that makes it stick.
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Build shared platforms and tools that other engineering and delivery teams actually adopt.
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Work with product, architecture, data and security teams to take AI from pilot to everyday practice.
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Measure what changes (delivery speed, quality and adoption) and report it to senior leadership.
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What you bring
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You have led a small AI or software engineering team, and you are still hands on.
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You have rolled out AI‐assisted engineering in a team or organisation (for example GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or tooling you built) and can show the result.
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10 or more years in software, data or platform engineering, much of it in large or complex organisations.
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Experience leading Agile delivery and bringing engineers, product and architecture along with you.
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A plus: experience organising enterprise knowledge or data (data models, metadata, catalogues or knowledge bases) so AI tools can use it well.
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Sydney based for a hybrid pattern, with full Australian work rights.
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Why apply
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Build a team from the ground up, with executive sponsorship behind it.
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Work at genuine enterprise scale on AI that ships.
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A leadership step for a robust tech lead or engineering manager who wants to own an AI capability.
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