Manager Data & AI Platform Engineering

NSW Department of Customer Service; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 154,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

NSW Department of Customer Service seeks a Manager Data & AI Platform Engineering in Sydney to lead the platform target state architecture and roadmap. You'll head a small team to uplift security, identity, deployment and agent orchestration across our Azure/Snowflake data platform, with strong autonomy and strategic impact.

You will drive DevSecOps practices, oversee data pipelines and agentic workflows, and collaborate across the Directorate to deliver innovative analytics and AI capabilities

Qualifications

• Design and implement initiatives to improve security, governance and observability of an Azure and Snowflake based data platform.
• Oversee DevSecOps pipelines for data pipelines, ML models and web applications.
• Oversee design and implementation of data pipelines and ingestion processes.
• Design agentic workflows for data quality, BAU analytics and automation tasks.
• Monitor, deploy and manage context for AI agents across the Directorate.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement initiatives to continuously improve security, governance and observability of an Azure and Snowflake based data platform.
• Set and continuously improve DevSecOps practices across the team. Oversee the implementation and maintenance of deployment pipelines for data pipelines, machine learning models and user-facing web applications.
• Oversee the design and implementation of data pipelines. Manage the
• Design and implement agentic workflows for ingestion, data quality management, and BAU data & analytics tasks.
• Design and implement ways to effectively monitor, deploy, and manage context for AI agents across the Directorate.

Skills

DevSecOps experience

Cloud security best practices

Snowflake

Azure

Data pipelines

Agentic workflows

Strong communication

Tools

Azure

Snowflake

Job description

Manager Data & AI Platform Engineering

Branch & Division: Strategy, Policy & Delivery/ Regulatory Intelligence, Data & Insights

Location: CBD/Parramatta. Hybrid working arrangements, 2 days per week in office (split across CBD and Parramatta offices), 3 days per week WFH.

Employment type: Ongoing

Grade: Clerk Grade 11/12

Salary: $154,231 - $178,369 + super

Do you want to make a difference to the NSW community?

NSW Fair Trading is embarking on a major program of work to transition to agentic data engineering and analytics. The Manager Data & AI Platform Engineering will be responsible for architecting a data model, and cloud data platform, to enable agentic data engineering, analytics and science workflows.

In this role you'll own the platform target state architecture and roadmap. You'll lead a small team to design and implement major uplifts in security, identity, deployment, and agent orchestration across our platform, supported by a team of 5. This is a rare opportunity to experiment and learn on the cutting edge of technology. You'll be asked to continuously find new and better ways of doing things. You'll have a high degree of autonomy, and will be accountable for playing a strategic leadership role in the Directorate.

If you're someone who's driven to understand how things work, to learn, and to make change happen fast, get in touch.

About the team: Regulatory Intelligence, Data & Insights

Your day-to-day

• Design and implement initiatives to continuously improve security, governance and observability of an Azure and Snowflake based data platform.
• Set and continuously improve DevSecOps practices across the team. Oversee the implementation and maintenance of deployment pipelines for data pipelines, machine learning models and user-facing web applications.
• Oversee the design and implementation of data pipelines. Manage the
• Design and implement agentic workflows for ingestion, data quality management, and BAU data & analytics tasks.
• Design and implement ways to effectively monitor, deploy, and manage context for AI agents across the Directorate.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be driven to achieve excellence and comfortable with a fast pace of change
• Enjoy learning and experimentation, and always be willing to ask whether there's a better way to do something
• Have implemented DevOps/DevSecOps transformations in the past
• Have a strong understanding of cloud security best practices
• Be familiar with common data ingestion and transformation patterns.
• Direct experience with Snowflake and Azure are not essential.
• The successful candidate will be a strong communicator.
• Candidates with prior experience outside the technology sector are encouraged to apply.

Salary Grade 11/12, with the base salary for this role starting at $154,231 base plus superannuation

Closing Date: Sunday 18th October 2026 (11:59pm)

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