AI Engineering Manager — Hybrid, Sydney-based, Scale AI

Westpac; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mortgage discounts for employees

Flexible work arrangements

Tailored learning and development

Job summary

Westpac is seeking an exceptional AI Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of AI Engineers, partnering with senior leaders to scale AI-enabled products and services across the bank. This hands-on technical leader will shape AI engineering strategy, build reusable workflows, and drive AI-first delivery practices at enterprise scale, while fostering a high-performing, inclusive culture.

Join Westpac to help transform how engineering uses AI and enable safe, scalable delivery across the

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern software engineering and enterprise technology delivery.
• Strong experience leading engineers in large-scale environments.
• Proven capability building and scaling engineering practices, standards and delivery frameworks.
• Experience with AI, GenAI, agentic systems, cloud platforms, DevSecOps and modern tooling.
• A passion for coaching, mentoring and developing technical talent.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of AI Engineers.
• Partner with the Chief Engineer and senior technical leaders to shape AI engineering strategy and execution.
• Build reusable agentic workflows, engineering patterns, templates, guardrails and golden paths.
• Drive adoption of AI-first software development lifecycle practices.
• Uplift engineering capability across AI, software engineering, data, DevSecOps, testing, observability and operational excellence.
• Create scalable engineering standards, practices and operating rhythms.
• Foster a high-performing, inclusive and psychologically safe team culture.
• Contribute technically where needed while enabling the broader team to deliver safely at scale.

Skills

AI engineering leadership

Team building & coaching

AI-first delivery

Strategic collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Engineering excellence

Cloud platforms

Job description

Westpac is seeking an exceptional AI Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of AI Engineers, partnering with senior leaders to scale AI-enabled products and services across the bank. This hands-on technical leader will shape AI engineering strategy, build reusable workflows, and drive AI-first delivery practices at enterprise scale, while fostering a high-performing, inclusive culture.

Join Westpac to help transform how engineering uses AI and enable safe, scalable delivery across the