Executive Manager - AI Engineering Consulting

Quantium; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Continuous learning

Remote working

Job summary

Quantium is seeking an experienced engineering leader to scale AI transformation for Australia’s largest enterprises. You will coach engineers and leads, shape delivery approaches, and maintain a high engineering bar across client engagements.

Based in Sydney or Melbourne, you’ll work in a dynamic consulting environment, forming teams around client problems and turning insights into production-ready solutions while building repeatable capabilities for future engagements.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering leadership experience with track record of developing engineers and leads.
• Experience in consulting, professional services or client-facing engineering environments.
• Ability to build credibility with senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong technical judgement across modern AI and engineering, able to move between context and detail.
• First-principles mindset; adapt approach as needs evolve.
• Experience building capability beyond individual projects, through people, practices or tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of around 10 engineers and leads, coaching and developing people while building leadership capability.
• Guide complex AI transformation engagements, helping clients move from discovery to executable engineering solutions.
• Represent Quantium’s engineering capability with senior clients, providing technical credibility and clear communication.
• Build repeatable consulting engineering capability, turning lessons into methodologies, playbooks and practices.
• Provide technical and architectural judgement across AI, data, platform and application engineering.
• Balance client delivery with long-term capability building, maintaining a high engineering bar.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Consulting experience

Stakeholder management

AI/engineering judgement

First principles

Patterns & tooling

Job description

Who is Quantium?

Quantium is a world leader in data science and artificial intelligence. Established in Australia in 2002, Quantium is a global team of more than 1,200 people across 14 locations with a unique blend of capabilities across product and consulting services to help businesses unlock value from data and analytics. Quantium partners with the world's largest corporations to forge a better, more intelligent world.

We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader to help scale how Quantium delivers AI transformation for some of Australia’s largest enterprises. Based in Sydney or Melbourne, you’ll lead a growing AI engineering team of around 10 people today. Working closely with Engineering Leads and engineers across client engagements, you’ll develop the team, maintain a high engineering bar, and help turn ambitious AI strategies into practical, production-ready solutions.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering leadership, enterprise consulting and AI delivery. It’s for someone who enjoys staying close to the work: coaching engineers and leads, working directly with clients, shaping delivery approaches, and providing technical judgement when teams encounter difficult problems.

Unlike a traditional Engineering Manager role, your people won’t always sit within a single product or long-running squad. Teams form around different client problems and engagements, so you’ll need to create clarity, develop people and maintain consistency across a dynamic consulting environment.

This is also an opportunity to help shape how we scale. As demand grows, you’ll turn what we learn from individual engagements into stronger methodologies, practices and playbooks, building a repeatable AI engineering capability that makes every engagement better than the last.

How You’ll Create Impact

• Lead and grow a team of around 10 Engineers and Leads, coaching and developing people while building the leadership capability needed to scale
• Guide complex AI transformation engagements, helping clients move from ambiguous problems and ambitious strategies to pragmatic, executable engineering solutions
• Represent Quantium’s engineering capability with senior clients, bringing technical credibility, sound judgement and clear communication to complex business and engineering conversations
• Build repeatable consulting engineering capability, turning lessons and patterns from individual engagements into methodologies, playbooks and practices that improve future delivery
• Provide technical and architectural judgement where it matters, helping teams navigate difficult decisions across AI, data, platform and application engineering without needing to be the primary implementer
• Balance client delivery with longer-term capability building, maintaining a high engineering bar while continuously improving how our teams work

The Superpowers You’ll Bring To The Team

• Strong engineering leadership experience, with a track record of developing engineers and Engineering Leads, building high-performing teams and driving outcomes through others
• Experience in consulting, professional services or similarly client-facing engineering environments, where problems can be ambiguous and teams need to move quickly from discovery to delivery
• The ability to build credibility with senior technical and business stakeholders, communicate complex ideas clearly and challenge thinking constructively
• Strong technical judgement across modern AI and engineering, with experience delivering complex AI, data, platform or software solutions and the ability to move between strategic context and technical detail
• A first-principles mindset, comfortable adapting your approach as client needs, technologies and team structures evolve rather than relying on a rigid playbook
• A track record of building capability beyond individual projects, whether through developing people, establishing engineering practices, or creating reusable patterns, methodologies and tooling

Remember – you might not tick all the boxes, but don’t let that from stopping you applying. We’re more interested in how you work, your ability to solve problems and think big.

What could your Quantium Experience look like?

Working at Quantium will allow you to challenge your imagination. You will get to solve complex problems using rigor, precision and by asking great questions – but it also means you can think big, outside the box and push your problem-solving skills to the max.

By Joining The Quantium Team, You’ll Get To

• Forge your path: So many of our team have moved around different teams or offices. You’ll be in the driver’s seat, and we empower you to make your career your own
• Find your kind: Embrace diversity and connect with your tribe (think foodies, dog lovers, readers, or runners)
• Make an impact: Leave your mark. Your contributions resonate, regardless of your role or rank

We’ve Got Some Pretty Sweet Perks

• Flexible work arrangements: Achieve work life balance at your own pace with hybrid and flexible work arrangements. We work from home on Mondays and Fridays and in-office together Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
• Continuous learning: Our vision is empowering analytics talent to thrive. The Analytics Community fosters the development of individuals, thought leadership and technical excellence at Quantium through building strong connections, fostering collaboration, and co-creation of best practice
• Remote working: Embrace the opportunity to work outside of your assigned home location for up to 30 days every year