Lead engineering for data science + AI at scale. AWS, team leadership, prototype-to-production. $150–160/day, 7.5h/hour, Nov start.

A high-impact engineering leadership role designing and delivering cloud-based data science and AI solutions. You'll lead a team of data engineers, ML specialists, and DevOps engineers, setting technical standards and moving prototypes into production at scale.

Reporting to a Delivery Lead, you'll partner with senior data scientists, government technology teams, and stakeholders to deliver operationally sound, maintainable, secure data science capabilities. This role is essential to moving the portfolio from prototype-heavy delivery to repeatable, reusable patterns.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Lead the design and delivery of engineering approaches for data science and AI solutions

Guide a team of ML, DevOps, and Data Engineering specialists

Design reusable cloud architecture patterns (AWS, approved government environments)

Build pathways for prototypes and POCs to reach production-readiness

Establish best practices for data pipelines, ML engineering, DevOps, monitoring

Collaborate with senior data scientists, delivery leads, technology teams, and stakeholders





WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Essential

Demonstrated delivery of data science / ML solutions to AWS or cloud platforms

Engineering leadership for complex data science or AI projects

Experience designing and implementing prototype-to-production pathways

Robust understanding of data engineering, ML engineering, DevOps, cloud architecture

Ability to work collaboratively across technical and non-technical teams

Desirable

Government or regulated-sector delivery background

Familiarity with MLOps, LLMOps, retrieval-augmented generation, responsible AI

Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, model monitoring and evaluation

Track record of creating reusable reference architectures or technical documentation

THE DETAILS

Rate: $150–160/hour inc. super

Hours: 7.5 hours

Location: Sydney or Melbourne (2 days in office, 3 from home)

Engagement: Labour hire contract, 12 months + 12-month extension possible

Start Date: 2nd November 2026

Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain NV1 (we support the process)

Citizenship: Australian citizens only
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