Senior Manager, AI Engineering

Galileo Search; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Galileo Search is helping a large Australian financial services organisation hire a Senior Manager, AI Engineering in Sydney. The role combines leadership with hands-on coding to deliver AI-enabled software at enterprise scale.

You will build and lead an AI engineering team, hire engineers, and drive AI from pilot to everyday practice across products and platforms in a hybrid Sydney environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software, data or platform engineering; large org experience.
• Led a small AI or software engineering team and remain hands-on.
• Experience rolling out AI-assisted engineering and its impact.
• Sydney-based with hybrid work rights and experience in enterprise settings.

Responsibilities

• Build, hire and lead an AI engineering team, starting small and growing it.
• Put AI to work across software delivery: AI-assisted coding, testing, requirements and design.
• Build shared platforms and tools adopted by other teams.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, data and security to scale AI.
• Measure delivery speed, quality and adoption and report to senior leadership.

Skills

AI leadership

Hands-on coding

Agile delivery

Team building

Hiring engineers

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cloud platforms

Job description

Senior Manager, AI Engineering

Sydney NSW (hybrid)

Full time, permanent

Build an AI engineering team from the ground up

A hands‑on leadership role: stay close to the code

Executive sponsorship and genuine enterprise scale

A large, well‑established Australian financial services organisation is investing seriously in AI across the way it builds and runs technology. It is appointing a hands‑on Senior Manager to build and lead a new AI engineering team, hire the engineers, and put AI to work across how its technology products are delivered.

This is a builder's leadership role. You set the direction, you still write and review code, and you grow a small team into a capability the wider technology function relies on.

What you will do

• Build, hire and lead an AI engineering team, starting small and growing it.
• Put AI to work across how software gets delivered: AI‑assisted coding, testing, requirements and design, and the tooling that makes it stick.
• Build shared platforms and tools that other engineering and delivery teams actually adopt.
• Work with product, architecture, data and security teams to take AI from pilot to everyday practice.
• Measure what changes (delivery speed, quality and adoption) and report it to senior leadership.

What you bring

• You have led a small AI or software engineering team, and you are still hands on.
• You have rolled out AI‑assisted engineering in a team or organisation (for example GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or tooling you built) and can show the result.
• 10 or more years in software, data or platform engineering, much of it in large or complex organisations.
• Experience leading Agile delivery and bringing engineers, product and architecture along with you.
• A plus: experience organising enterprise knowledge or data (data models, metadata, catalogues or knowledge bases) so AI tools can use it well.
• Sydney based for a hybrid pattern, with full Australian work rights.

Why apply

• Build a team from the ground up, with executive sponsorship behind it.
• Work at genuine enterprise scale on AI that ships.
• A leadership step for a strong tech lead or engineering manager who wants to own an AI capability.