Enterprise AI Engineering Leader: Scale & Coach

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave

Learning and development opportunities

Volunteer initiatives

Employee mortgage rates

Job summary

Westpac Group is seeking an AI Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of AI Engineers, partnering with senior leaders to scale AI-enabled products across the bank. The role focuses on engineering excellence, reusable workflows, and AI-first delivery practices at enterprise scale.

You will drive adoption of modern SDLC practices, uplift capabilities across AI, software, data, DevSecOps, and testing, and foster an inclusive, high-performing culture while contributing technically as needed.

Qualifications

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

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 Leadership

Team Leadership

Software Engineering

GenAI

Cloud Platforms

DevSecOps

Mentoring

Stakeholder Engagement

Job description

Westpac Group is seeking an AI Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of AI Engineers, partnering with senior leaders to scale AI-enabled products across the bank. The role focuses on engineering excellence, reusable workflows, and AI-first delivery practices at enterprise scale.

You will drive adoption of modern SDLC practices, uplift capabilities across AI, software, data, DevSecOps, and testing, and foster an inclusive, high-performing culture while contributing technically as needed.