Senior / Tech Lead - Ai Development

Overview

Datacom is seeking Senior / Tech lead developers who want to join our Digital Engineering team and drive AI-driven software solutions.

You will work on innovative AI projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy AI models that address complex business challenges.

This role is focused on AI development and requires a strong software background with a passion for AI.

This is an opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge projects in New Zealand market.

What You'll Bring

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 (chatbot, summariser, code assistant, etc.)

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

Nice-to-haves

Agent frameworks (AutoGen

• , CrewAI) and tool-using agents

Multimodal model workflows (image-text with GPT-4o, real-time GPT-4o)

Experience with embedding models

Workspace automation using agentic frameworks

Advanced RAG variants – LongRAG, Self-RAG, GraphRAG and trade-offs between vector stores (Pinecone, Qdrant, FAISS, Azure AI Search)

Multimodal & streaming LLMs – real-time GPT-4o or Gemini 2 Ultra use-cases (image to text or speech) and cross-modal embeddings

Why join us

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services.

We maintain a dynamic, agile, small-business feel and value our people who give Datacom its unique culture and energy.

We offer perks such as social events, remote working, flexible hours and professional development, with opportunities to learn and advance your career in a collegial environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help largest enterprise organisations in ANZ explore possibilities and solve challenges.

We strive to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace and continue to take steps to support our people.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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