Engineering Lead | Azure | Sydney

Deloitte Services Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retail discounts

Wellbeing leave

Paid volunteering days

Twelve flexible working options

Market-leading parental leave

Return to work support package

Job summary

Deloitte Australia is seeking an Azure Application Developer to design, build and deliver cloud-native integration solutions on Azure. You will work with cross-functional teams, mentor juniors, and apply AI-assisted engineering tools to enhance delivery and quality.

This client-facing role offers growth, mentorship, and exposure to cutting-edge technologies. You will tackle requirements analysis, design specifications, development, testing, and governance across API-based integrations while

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building Web APIs with C# and .NET.
• Experience with automated unit testing.
• Understanding of different integration patterns.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Anthropic Claude, etc.).
• Experience delivering Azure-based solutions with API Management, App Services, Functions, and AKS.
• Understanding responsible AI delivery practices including prompting, data privacy, and human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test cloud-native, API-based integrations on Azure.
• Collaborate with clients and teams; conduct code and design reviews.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal accelerators.
• Stay updated with AI trends and apply responsible AI practices.

Skills

Web APIs (C#, .NET)

Unit testing

Integration patterns

AI-assisted tooling

AI-assisted lifecycle

Responsible AI practices

Azure AI Foundry

Azure DevOps

Azure API Management

IaC (Bicep/Terraform)

Azure certifications

Job description

Job Requisition ID: 41440

• Mentoring, coaching and leadership programs to help you make an impact that matters
• Purposeful client work with real community impact
• Explore opportunities for global mobility and internal secondments

Join one of Australia's best Engineering groups working with bleeding edge tools and technologies to solve cleints biggest challanges.

What will your typical day look like?

Requirement analysis and design will involve working closely with clients and our broader teams to understand solution requirements, then creating clear and detailed design specifications to meet those needs. You will be responsible for Implementation and testing while developing cloud-native, API-based, and modern integration solutions, ensuring adherence to best practices and meeting both functional and non-functional requirements, as well as conducting thorough integration testing to ensure quality and reliability.

You will be responsible for troubleshooting, assisting, diagnosing and resolving technical issues to maintain smooth solution delivery. Working as part of a teaam, actively supporting your peers through code reviews, specification reviews, and by sharing your expertise to help others grow. This role will be client facing and involves engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated, high-quality solutions.

There are plenty of learning and problem-solving opportuniteis to stay up to date with the latest technical trends and exploring innovative ways to solve complex problems. Contributing to the broader Engineering practice, sharing knowledge, helping develop internal assets and accelerators, and taking part in initiatives that strengthen our engineering community.

About the team

At Deloitte, all our successes, the differences we make for our clients, our people and in our communities, come down to our purpose: to make an impact that matters.

Deloitte’s Engineering Practice is leading the way that organisations leverage Cloud and AI technologies to realise their transformation potential and solve their most complex challenges. Our engineering team consists of thought leaders and specialists in platform engineering, cloud-native development, modern integration engineering, and AI engineering. We assist our clients in accelerating towards a technology-driven future by implementing leading-edge, tailored cloud platforms, as well as software and AI engineering solutions.

About the job opportunity

We’re looking for a passionateAzure Application Developerto join our Deloitte Engineering Practice – a team of specialists in platform engineering, cloud-native development, integration engineering, and AI engineering. This is your opportunity to advance your career while helping shape Australia’s digital future.

As part of a high-performing team, you’ll tackle some of our clients’ most complex cloud and AI challenges, delivering enterprise-grade solutions on Azure. You’ll work alongside thought leaders and experienced mentors and contribute to innovative projects that leverage cutting-edge technologies and GenAI-accelerated delivery.

If you have a proven track record in delivering high-quality solutions, a passion for learning and problem-solving, and a desire to share your knowledge to help your team succeed, we’d love to hear from you.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you.

Interpersonal and soft skills:

• Self-motivated, with a strong desire to solve problems and take initiative.
• AI-aware engineering mindset, with curiosity and judgement to identify safe, practical opportunities to use modern AI tools and AI-enabled ways of working to improve delivery quality, team productivity, and client outcomes.
• Ability to adopt AI-enabled practices responsibly, including experimentation, continuous learning, knowledge synthesis, and human review of AI-assisted outputs.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, troubleshooting, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work confidently in consulting or project delivery environments.
• Ability to provide technical leadership across design, delivery, review, and mentoring activities within engineering teams.
• Commitment to fostering a culture of collaboration, teamwork, support, and inclusion.
• Desirable: Experience working with Agile approaches.
• Desirable: Previous consulting, client-facing, or project delivery experience.

Technical skills:

• 2+ years’ experience developing Web APIs using C# and the .NET ecosystem.
• Experience with automated unit testing.
• Understanding of various integration patterns.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Anthropic Claude, AI-enabled IDE assistants, or similar productivity tools.
• Practical capability applying AI-assisted engineering across the software delivery lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, code generation, test creation, documentation, troubleshooting, and delivery governance.
• Understanding of responsible AI-assisted delivery practices, including effective prompting, reusable prompt patterns, validation of AI-generated outputs, secure handling of client information, privacy awareness, and maintaining human accountability for engineering decisions.
• Highly desirable: Experience or capability with Azure AI Foundry, including using Azure AI services and tooling to design, prototype, and support AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, or similar source control and CI/CD platforms.
• Highly desirable: Experience delivering solutions on Azure using services such as API Management, App Services, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Container Apps, and AKS.
• Highly desirable: Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Azure Bicep or Terraform, and scripting.
• Desirable: Relevant Azure professional certifications.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.

We value in-person connection with our clients and our colleagues. We offer several ways for you to work flexibly so that you can serve your clients, stay connected with your team, and manage your personal priorities.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits , including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.

By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third‑party provider.