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Engineering Manager - Agentic AI

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Description

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive.

The Agentic AI Engineer / Chapter Lead combines hands-on AI engineering depth with chapter leadership. The role designs, builds and operates secure, reliable and cost-effective agentic AI solutions, while developing engineering capability and establishing reusable patterns, standards and reference implementations.

Agentic AI Solution Engineering

  • Design, build and operate single-agent and multi-agent systems using LangGraph, Amazon Bedrock Agents and appropriate direct SDK approaches.
  • Define agent workflows, state, checkpointing, human-in-the-loop controls, tool schemas, contracts, boundaries and safe hand-off patterns.
  • Apply engineering judgement to determine when agent frameworks are required and when simpler deterministic or direct model integration is better.

Retrieval and Enterprise Knowledge Systems

  • Design and tune RAG and agentic RAG pipelines across approved enterprise knowledge sources, including ingestion, retrieval, indexing, re-ranking and grounding.
  • Implement hybrid retrieval, query planning, self-correction and tool-augmented retrieval patterns to improve relevance and task completion.
  • Evaluate vector stores and knowledge graph or GraphRAG approaches where scale, security, cost or relationship-heavy domains require them.

MCP, Tools and Agent Communication

  • Build and operate MCP servers and clients, including tools, resources, prompts and supported transports.
  • Expose secure capabilities with clear descriptions, validation, versioning, least-privilege access and defined trust boundaries.
  • Apply agent-to-agent concepts such as discovery, agent cards, task lifecycle, collaboration and capability registration.

Evaluation, Quality and Economics

  • Create evaluation frameworks using golden datasets, deterministic checks, LLM-as-judge techniques, human review and regression suites.
  • Integrate quality, safety, groundedness, latency, token usage and cost gates into delivery and release processes.
  • Benchmark models and architectures for quality, reliability, throughput, context requirements and total cost.

Security, Governance and Responsible AI

  • Build security, privacy, safety, guardrails and governance into agentic solutions from inception.
  • Mitigate risks including prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency, unsafe tool use, insecure output handling and supply-chain exposure.
  • Implement PII handling, scoped identity, OAuth where applicable, secret management, least-privilege access, human approval and audit trails for sensitive actions.

Production Engineering and Operations

  • Build AI services using strong Python practices, including asynchronous programming, FastAPI, automated testing and maintainable package design.
  • Deploy and operate services on AWS and Kubernetes with CI/CD, secure runtime configuration and operational controls.
  • Instrument agent systems with tracing, logging, metrics and evaluation telemetry using OpenTelemetry and relevant LLM observability platforms.
  • Implement reliability patterns including timeouts, retries, fallbacks, failover, rate limits, concurrency controls and graceful degradation.

Chapter Leadership and Capability Uplift

  • Actively build chapter capability by mentoring engineers in software engineering practices, emerging technologies, tools, approaches and delivery processes, modelling continuous learning and coaching others to lift capability across teams.
  • Coach, develop and provide regular feedback to chapter members, clarifying performance, behavioural and engineering expectations, and supporting meaningful growth conversations.
  • Build strong commercial capability across teams by modelling disciplined cost-value thinking, balancing engineering investment, platform cost, risk and customer outcomes to choose the most economic course of action.

What we offer

  • Performance-related pay
  • Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
  • Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
  • Up to 26 weeks maternity leave provided to the birth mother with benefits for all child births
  • Up to 16 weeks paid paternity leave provided to the non-birthing partners
  • Employees are entitled to 21 paid annual leaves per calendar year
  • Eligible employees are entitled to 12 days of paid sick / casual leave per calendar year
  • Relocation support options across India, from junior to senior positions within the company
  • Receive insurance benefits such as medical, accidental and life insurances

Skills

Required

  • Agentic AI architecture
  • orchestration
  • LLM
  • prompt and context engineering
  • RAG
  • agentic RAG
  • enterprise knowledge systems
  • MCP
  • agent-to-agent communication
  • AI evaluation
  • model selection
  • token economics
  • quality gates
  • responsible AI practices
  • AI security
  • governance
  • privacy
  • guardrails
  • risk controls
  • safe production deployment
  • Python
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • observability
  • reliability
  • operations

Nice to have

  • Integration of AI capabilities with Java
  • Spring Boot or Node.js services using Spring AI
  • LangChain4j or comparable libraries
  • Fine-tuning or parameter-efficient adaptation
  • including LoRA
  • Experience with additional agent frameworks such as Strands Agents
  • CrewAI
  • OpenAI Agents SDK or Claude Agent SDK
  • Background in SRE
  • platform engineering
  • event-driven architecture
  • Kafka or Redis Streams
  • Contributions to AI tooling
  • internal engineering communities or relevant cloud and AI certifications
  • Experience with enterprise model gateways
  • agent registries
  • AI inventory
  • governance platforms or internally hosted model ecosystems
  • End-to-end solution design from chat UI through orchestration
  • retrieval
  • tool execution and LLM response delivery
  • including clear ownership of user experience
  • backend services and model interaction patterns
  • Understanding of A2UI
  • A2A and shared UI communication practices

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