AWS & AI Engineering Director

Change Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 280,000 - 460,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

Change Recruitment seeks an experienced AWS Engineering Director to lead and grow its cloud and AI engineering capability for enterprise clients in Australia. You will drive technical direction, architect complex platforms and mentor teams across multiple engagements.

The role combines executive engagement, delivery accountability and commercial growth, requiring strong leadership, stakeholder management and a track record of delivering measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in cloud engineering, solution architecture or consulting.
• Experience leading enterprise cloud transformation and modernisation.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management.
• Proven track record in building high performing engineering teams.
• Experience in consulting or client-facing technology leadership.

Responsibilities

• Set engineering direction and standards across multiple client engagements.
• Own end-to-end solution designs for complex enterprise environments.
• Lead executive engagement and translate tech concepts into business value.
• Grow and mentor engineering teams; drive delivery quality and outcomes.
• Oversee business development, proposals, and account growth.
• Govern AI and cloud platform governance, security and cost optimisation.

Skills

AWS architecture

Cloud strategy

Executive engagement

Leadership

DevSecOps

Platform engineering

Agile delivery

Business development

Education

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect / DevOps)

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

GitHub

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

Change Recruitment seeks an experienced AWS Engineering Director to lead and grow its cloud and AI engineering capability for enterprise clients in Australia. You will drive technical direction, architect complex platforms and mentor teams across multiple engagements.

The role combines executive engagement, delivery accountability and commercial growth, requiring strong leadership, stakeholder management and a track record of delivering measurable business value.