Protecht helps organisations around the world understand and manage risk. We’re putting Generative AI, agentic workflows and intelligent automation into the product, and we need a hands on leader to guide that work.

You will bridge the gap between technical execution and team leadership, ensuring high quality software development while fostering a collaborative and high performing team culture.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will manage and mentor a team that strives to implement best practices for software development, testing and agile project delivery using modern software architecture.

What you’ll do

- Own the AI delivery lifecycle end to end, from breaking down complex initiatives into realistic work packages to getting them running in production
- Set the team’s AI roadmap priorities, manage dependencies with other teams, and build delivery plans that account for the uncertainty in AI work
- Coach and mentor the team: code reviews, knowledge sharing, OKRs, and career development plans
- Explain AI capabilities and limits to non technical stakeholders, and keep them updated on progress and trade offs

What you’ll bring

- 5+ years in software engineering, including experience leading technical teams
- Strong Java and ReactJS programming




- Hands on experience building agentic AI features with Spring AI, LangChain4j, AWS Bedrock and a range of LLMs or inference services
- Experience shipping AI features inside a software product
- Strong REST API development experience
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure
- Robust Git experience (Bitbucket preferred)
- Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Splunk and Dynatrace

Nice to have

- 2+ years building AI product features
- Generative AI, RAG and vector database experience
- Spring framework, microservices, Kubernetes and AWS
- JIRA and Confluence

Why Protecht

You’ll work on AI in a product that customers rely on to manage real risk! We’ll support you with mentoring and a structured approach to learning.

If you think this may be your next opportunity and you want to be part of a Great Place to Work™ – Certified organisation, Apply online today!

To be eligible for this role, you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen / permanent resident).

Visit our website https://www.protechtgroup.com/ to find out a little more about working with us.

📌 AI Engineering Team Lead (Sydney)
🏢 Protecht
📍 Sydney