AI & Data Engineering Lead

DeloitteBrisbaneOn-siteFull-time1 week ago

Deloitte is seeking an AI & Data Engineering Lead in Brisbane to provide technical leadership across client engagements, guiding engineering decisions and growing high-performing teams that deliver secure, scalable, production-ready AI, data and cloud solutions. The role requires 6+ years of software, data or AI engineering experience including leading others, strong development skills in Python, Scala, Java or similar, advanced SQL, and experience with modern cloud platforms. Applicants must hold working rights in Australia.

What you'll do

Lead the technical design and implementation of engagements, ensuring engineering decisions align with architecture, quality, security and delivery objectives
Maintain technical depth through critical designs, engineering decisions and reviews
Lead engineering delivery across the engagement, removing technical blockers and maintaining delivery momentum
Work directly with client stakeholders on technical direction, trade-offs and delivery risk
Coach and develop engineers through mentoring, technical leadership and regular feedback
Lead adoption of engineering practices including testing, CI/CD, code review, observability, governance and responsible AI
Drive adoption of AI-first engineering practices, reusable accelerators and modern developer tooling
Contribute to proposals, solution shaping and technical pursuits, building reusable assets and engineering patterns

What you need

Must-have

PythonScalaJavaSQLAzureAWSGoogle CloudDatabricks

Nice-to-have

AI-assisted engineering practicesAgentic workflowsAI toolsData visualisation

Soft skills

CommunicationMentoringCoachingProblem solvingTechnical leadershipStakeholder management

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