Join our Business Operational Risk Management function supporting Commodities and Global Markets. Our team work with the business to identify, assess and manage technical operational risks, working alongside AI, Data, Cloud, Cyber and Engineering teams to embed controls that can scale with agentic technology. We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future. What role will you play? You will lead technical risk and control assessments for AI solutions, foundation models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, multi-agent systems and enterprise data platforms and apply Macquarie’s operational risk framework to AI, data and technology-enabled activities across Commodities and Global Markets, supporting the identification, recording, assessment and management of material risks. You will assess risks arising across the AI and data lifecycle, including data ingestion and use, model selection, deployment, access, human oversight, monitoring, change and retirement as well as provide practical challenge on risks such as autonomous actions and tool use, prompt injection, model or data leakage, excessive permissions, unauthorised access, unreliable outputs, model drift, concentration and third-party dependency. You will partner with the business to design and maintain proportionate preventative and detective controls, including identity and access boundaries, runtime guardrails, observability, evaluation, escalation thresholds, kill switches and auditable decision trails. You will identify manual or judgement-based controls and drive their conversion into scalable automated or agentic controls, with clear fallback, escalation and human-approval thresholds You will establish practical risk telemetry, control indicators and scenario testing to surface emerging concentration, access, conduct, resilience and third-party risks and lead technical incident triage,



root-cause analysis and remediation for AI and data events, translating findings into reusable control improvements. You will be required to provide credible challenge to the business, technology and vendors while enabling proportionate, risk-based adoption. What You Offer
• 8+ years in AI engineering, cloud security, data platforms, cyber, technology risk or a closely related discipline, including experience operating complex production systems.
• Experience in a progressive technology environment such as AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake, Anthropic, OpenAI, Stripe, Uber, Atlassian or a comparable scaler.
• Working knowledge of cloud-native architecture and controls, including identity and access management, workload isolation, secrets management, logging, data security and platform guardrails.
• Understanding of enterprise data controls, including classification, lineage, provenance, entitlements, privacy, information barriers, data quality and retention.
• The ability to review technical designs, data flows, permissions, logs and control evidence, and translate technical findings into clear operational risk implications and practical actions.
• Sound risk judgement, with the ability to distinguish material risks from theoretical concerns and focus stakeholders on the controls that matter most.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to influence engineers, data scientists, architects, business leaders and senior risk stakeholders.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated environment, and familiarity with model risk or AI governance, will be well regarded. We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited





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What We Offer
Benefits At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of perks which, depending on employment type, include:
• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for non-primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment About Commodities and Global Markets Commodities and Global Markets is a global business offering capital and financing, risk management, market access, physical execution and logistics solutions to its diverse client base across Commodities, Financial Markets and Asset Finance. Inclusion at Macquarie We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance. We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.

📌 AI Engineer | Operational Risk, Commodities and Global Markets (Sydney)
🏢 Macquarie Group
📍 Sydney