Senior Data & AI Tech Lead - Production ML/GenAI

Nuage Technology Group; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuage Technology Group in Melbourne seeks a Lead Data Scientist (AI/ML) to drive technical direction for ML/GenAI initiatives. This senior IC role combines hands-on engineering with leadership across teams, emphasizing scalable AI systems, feature engineering and production deployment.

You will mentor engineers, shape standards and collaborate with business leaders to translate complex ML challenges into practical outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years across Data Science, ML and AI engineering.
• Productionising ML systems and GenAI apps.
• Strong Python software development fundamentals.
• Experience with Databricks for ML workflows.
• Cloud experience with AWS and microservices.
• CI/CD, testing, monitoring and production support.
• Mentoring engineers and setting engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design across ML and GenAI teams.
• Design and improve production ML platforms.
• Build and scale LLM applications and RAG pipelines.
• Establish reusable patterns across Python, APIs, testing, CI/CD.
• Improve reliability and observability of AI/ML services.
• Mentor engineers and influence decisions.
• Collaborate with managers and business leaders on priorities.

Skills

Python engineering

ML lifecycle

GenAI & LLMs

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

MLOps

REST APIs

Docker

LangChain

Tools

Databricks

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Docker

Job description

Nuage Technology Group in Melbourne seeks a Lead Data Scientist (AI/ML) to drive technical direction for ML/GenAI initiatives. This senior IC role combines hands-on engineering with leadership across teams, emphasizing scalable AI systems, feature engineering and production deployment.

You will mentor engineers, shape standards and collaborate with business leaders to translate complex ML challenges into practical outcomes.