Senior Agentic Software Engineer

IAG; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boosted superannuation 13%

20 days annual leave + 5 MyLeave

Parental leave 20 weeks

Job summary

IAG is hiring a Senior Agentic Software Engineer in the Retail Insurance Australia (RIA) Digital & Channel Engineering group. You will be a senior hands-on technical leader shaping agentic software practices, delivering complex solutions and improving reusable capabilities across the team.

This is a permanent full-time role based in Gadigal Country (Sydney), Naarm (Melbourne) or Meanjin (Brisbane). You will mentor engineers, drive standards, and collaborate with product, architecture, platform,

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience delivering complex software, data or automation solutions with hands-on leadership.
• Strong software engineering across architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, release management, security and production support.
• Practical experience with AI coding tools, software agents, agentic workflows or engineering automation.
• Ability to design reusable engineering capabilities such as standards, instructions, workflows, controls, evaluations, automation and reference implementations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, secure, scalable and maintainable software and data solutions using agentic software engineering practices.
• Design and improve reusable engineering capabilities, including agent instructions, skills, workflows, controls, evaluation approaches, automation and reference implementations.
• Engineer reliable workflows that provide software agents with appropriate context, tools, permissions, testing, validation, escalation and recovery mechanisms.
• Convert incidents, recurring failures, review findings and delivery insights into improved standards, tests, controls, workflows and reusable assets.
• Mentor engineers and support teams adopting agentic software engineering practices, lifting engineering quality and capability.
• Lead practical experimentation with emerging agentic engineering technologies and translate successful approaches into scalable practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Software design

CI/CD

Observability

AI tooling

Mentoring

Agentic engineering

Security & risk

Tools

CI/CD

AI coding tools

Job description

At IAG, we’re ready for you. We're the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. Our family of brands turns the IAG purpose of making your world a safer place into action by helping everyday Aussies and New Zealanders, supporting their ambitions and making insurance accessible.

Help shape the future of software engineering in IAG’s Retail Insurance Australia division. As a Senior Agentic Software Engineer within RIA Digital & Channel Engineering, you’ll be a senior hands-on technical leader in a newly established Agentic Software Engineering practice. You’ll deliver complex solutions while improving the standards, workflows, controls and reusable capabilities that support future delivery. You’ll build engineering systems that enable engineers and software agents to work together effectively, convert delivery insights and engineering knowledge into reusable assets, and mentor teams adopting agentic software engineering practices. This is an opportunity to remain hands-on while influencing engineering capability across RIA.

This is a permanent full-time role based in Gadigal Country (Darling Park 2, Sydney), Naarm (Melbourne) or Meanjin (Brisbane).

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, secure, scalable and maintainable software and data solutions using agentic software engineering practices, working with product, architecture, platform, cyber and risk teams.
• Design and improve reusable engineering capabilities, including agent instructions, skills, workflows, controls, evaluation approaches, automation and reference implementations, aligned with Responsible AI expectations.
• Engineer reliable workflows that provide software agents with appropriate context, tools, permissions, testing, validation, escalation and recovery mechanisms.
• Convert incidents, recurring failures, review findings and delivery insights into improved standards, tests, controls, workflows and reusable engineering assets.
• Mentor engineers and support teams adopting agentic software engineering practices, lifting engineering quality, confidence and capability through practical delivery, design and code review.
• Lead practical experimentation with emerging agentic engineering technologies and, with platform, cyber, risk and Responsible AI teams, translate successful approaches into scalable engineering practices.

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering complex software, data or automation solutions and providing hands-on technical leadership.
• Strong software engineering capability across architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, release management, security and production support.
• Practical experience adopting, evaluating or implementing AI coding tools, software agents, agentic workflows or engineering automation.
• Ability to design reusable engineering capabilities such as standards, instructions, workflows, controls, evaluations, automation and reference implementations.
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to engineer reliable interactions between people, software agents, development platforms and delivery controls.
• Experience mentoring engineers and translating delivery learning into structural improvements to engineering practices and systems.
• A strong learning orientation, demonstrated through experimentation, practical application and engagement with emerging developments in this evolving discipline.
• Sound judgement to determine when agentic approaches are ready to scale, when additional controls are required and when conventional engineering approaches remain more appropriate.

What We Offer

• Boosted superannuation with 13% as standard.
• 20 days annual leave + 5 days MyLeave (extra leave for what’s important to you).
• Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance.
• Partner discounts on private health insurance, tech & appliances, and many more.
• Industry-leading 20 weeks paid parental leave.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, the award-winning IAG Academy, study assistance and secondment opportunities.
• employment type eligibility criteria apply

Applications close: Friday 2 October 2026 11:59PM AEST

Adjustments and Support

If you require any support or adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to [e-mail] for a confidential conversation.

More About Us

As part of IAG you'll enjoy a world of career opportunities, a purpose-led place focused on creating connection and belonging, and where you can create meaningful impact every day and grow your career beyond the expected. That’s not just words. It’s our people promise. We're ready for you with unexpected opportunities for your career, your work-life and your ability to make a difference. We celebrate all viewpoints shaped by life experiences and culture, and are guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses, and communities. We collaborate on Indigenous-led solutions that enable growth and create meaningful change for our customers and employees.