Engineering Lead, Core API & AI Platforms

Healthdirect Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Healthdirect Australia is seeking an Engineering Lead - Core Capabilities to guide reusable platforms, APIs and AI-enabled services underpinning national virtual health offerings. You will own and evolve the API platform and MCP layer while remaining hands-on in design and integration.

You will lead a dedicated engineering team, mentor engineers, and collaborate with government and health partners to deliver scalable, secure solutions in a regulated healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading teams (5+ engineers).
• Delivery of integration-heavy, platform and back-end solutions.
• Cloud experience with AWS and microservices.
• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR/HL7).
• Backend/integration tech including Node.js/TypeScript, .NET, AWS.
• Experience with API gateways and messaging systems.
• AI-enabled software engineering tooling and MCP patterns.
• Vendor and delivery-management in a hybrid model.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and trade-off communication.

Responsibilities

• Stay hands-on in solution design, integration architecture, code review and debugging across shared platforms.
• Own end-to-end delivery for the interop API platform, centralised APIs, CMS integrations and the AI MCP layer.
• Own and evolve the AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) layer and scale AI agents.
• Own and evolve the interoperability API platform, adopting standards such as FHIR.
• Coach and develop engineers and help establish the Core Capabilities team.
• Lead major incidents and manage vendor/partner relationships.
• Introduce new ways of working with platform tech including GenAI and MCP-based capabilities.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for cross-system issues.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Integration platforms

AWS cloud

FHIR HL7 knowledge

Node.js/TypeScript

.NET

API gateways

MCP / AI enablement

Vendor management

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Node.js/TypeScript

.NET

AWS

API gateways

Messaging

Job description

Healthdirect Australia is seeking an Engineering Lead - Core Capabilities to guide reusable platforms, APIs and AI-enabled services underpinning national virtual health offerings. You will own and evolve the API platform and MCP layer while remaining hands-on in design and integration.

You will lead a dedicated engineering team, mentor engineers, and collaborate with government and health partners to deliver scalable, secure solutions in a regulated healthcare environment.