AI Platform Tech Lead — Apigee X Gateway & LLM

NCS Group Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Discounted health insurance

Employee discounts

Career development programs

Job summary

NCS Australia is seeking a hands-on AI Platform Tech Lead to bridge solution architecture and shipped deliverables. You will lead the day-to-day engineering efforts across the gateway, enabling a team of developers, while driving build, test, and release momentum.

While this is a technical leadership position rather than a people‑management role, you will guide technical direction, unblock engineers, establish standards, and own epics, runbooks, PRDs, and stakeholder updates.

Qualifications

• Experience designing REST APIs and API gateway solutions.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs and multi-provider abstraction.
• Proficiency in Google Cloud Platform and IaC (Terraform).
• Security awareness and multi-cloud networking experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate architectural blueprints into actionable epics and user stories.
• Own gateway capabilities end-to-end including API contracts and onboarding.
• Design, build, and harden API capabilities on Apigee X.
• Implement multi-cloud provider abstractions (Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock).
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and standards.
• Coordinate with product managers and security teams.

Skills

APIs & gateway design

AI/LLM integration

GCP & Terraform

Security & multi-cloud

Technical ownership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Apigee X

Terraform

Vertex AI

AWS Bedrock

Job description

NCS Australia is seeking a hands-on AI Platform Tech Lead to bridge solution architecture and shipped deliverables. You will lead the day-to-day engineering efforts across the gateway, enabling a team of developers, while driving build, test, and release momentum.

While this is a technical leadership position rather than a people‑management role, you will guide technical direction, unblock engineers, establish standards, and own epics, runbooks, PRDs, and stakeholder updates.