Senior / Tech Lead - AI Development

Overview

Senior / Tech Lead - AI Development at Datacom — join to apply and drive AI solutions with our Digital Engineering team. This role focuses on delivering innovative AI-driven software solutions and working with cross-functional teams on cutting-edge projects.

What You’ll Do

The way we work and our customer needs are changing. We are undergoing a significant AI uplift to address complex business challenges for NZ markets. You will join our Digital Engineering team to design, develop, and deploy AI-powered software solutions, working with the latest AI models and cross-functional teams.

Must-haves

• 7+ years of professional software development (Python and Typescript preferred) with production ML / AI experience
• Demonstrated delivery of at least one generative-AI solution in production (e.g., chatbot, summariser, code assistant)
• Deep familiarity with transformers and orchestration stacks such as LangChain v0.2+, LlamaIndex or Semantic Kernel
• Practical experience deploying or fine-tuning models on Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry or AWS Bedrock / SageMaker
• Hands-on with RAG patterns, vector databases and evaluation metrics (BLEU, ROUGE-L, GPTScore)
• Cloud-native engineering skills : Docker, Kubernetes (AKS / EKS), infra-as-code and automated testing

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Why join Datacom

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest IT professional services providers. We maintain a dynamic, agile, small-business feel with a culture you can feel from the moment you meet us. We offer perks such as social events, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development to help you learn, develop your career, and contribute in a collegial, flat-structured environment. We operate at the forefront of technology to help enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve challenges in ANZ. We are committed to an inclusive, welcoming workplace where everyone can feel supported.

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