Senior Manager, AI Platform Capability & ML Build

About Us

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

About the Role

As our Senior Manager, AI Platform Capability & ML Build, you'll play a critical leadership role in shaping ANZ's enterprise AI platform capability and enabling the safe, scalable adoption of AI across the bank.

This role sits within the AI Products & Controls team in Data & AI, Technology, where you'll lead a high-performing engineering capability focused on turning complex business challenges into reusable AI platform solutions. You'll drive the design and implementation of next-generation AI platform services, agentic frameworks, governance controls and developer experiences that help accelerate AI innovation across ANZ.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Type: Permanent

Role Location: Melbourne or Brisbane

Work Hours: Full-Time

What will your day look like?

As a Senior Manager, AI Platform Capability & ML Build, you will:

Lead a forward-deployed engineering capability that partners with business and technology teams to convert high-value opportunities into scalable AI platform solutions.

Design, build and operate AI platform services including model gateways, agent runtimes, orchestration services, evaluation frameworks and observability capabilities.

Shape enterprise-wide agentic AI frameworks spanning DevOps, platform engineering, APIs, data integration and AI Control Plane connectivity.

Establish intelligent routing and governance patterns that balance performance, cost, safety and business outcomes.

Drive secure-by-design engineering practices, ensuring AI solutions meet ANZ's security, risk and governance standards.

Build developer-focused tooling, SDKs, reference architectures and reusable assets that enable rapid and safe AI adoption.

Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, inclusion and continuous learning.

Influence senior stakeholders and guide enterprise-level decisions relating to AI platform architecture, standards and future strategy.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring:

Significant experience leading platform engineering, AI engineering, MLOps, LLMOps, DevSecOps or cloud-native engineering capabilities within large and complex organisations.

Deep technical expertise across distributed systems, backend services, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, containerisation, CI/CD pipelines, observability and Site Reliability Engineering practices.

Strong practical experience with Generative AI and agentic AI architectures, including orchestration, retrieval, workflow automation and production monitoring.

Demonstrated success translating business problems into scalable engineering solutions and delivery roadmaps.

Proven experience leading and developing high-performing multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders across business, technology and risk functions.

Highly regarded

Experience within banking, financial services or another highly regulated industry.

Knowledge of responsible AI, model governance, guardrails, evaluation frameworks and AI safety practices.

Experience building developer platforms, reusable engineering assets, SDKs, standards or AI capability catalogues.

Contributions to AI engineering communities, thought leadership, research or open-source initiatives.

So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you're a candidate with a disability or access requirement, and have an enquiry about the support provided, please let us know on your application or visit ANZ Accessibility and Inclusion Programs for alternate contact methods.

To find out more about working at ANZ, visit https://www.anz.com.au/careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 126446 .

Job Posting End Date

06/11/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)