Senior Automation Engineer leading automation projects at Etex. Focused on improving operational excellence and technological innovation in industrial processes.
About the role
- Use Lean Startup loops (build–measure–learn) to get AI features into customers’ hands quickly
- Spend ~70% of your time coding – designing and building services, UIs, and integrations
- Build pragmatic RAG pipelines, manage prompts/templates/versions, run evaluations, fine-tune where it counts, and track AI behaviour with observability
- Partner with Lead AI Engineer to design secure, scalable systems
- Set coding standards, review PRs, and keep quality high
- Hire, onboard, and mentor developers and guide cross-functional team
- Run ceremonies: backlog triage to release readiness
- Work hand-in-hand with Product on scope, priorities, and success metrics
- Report directly to CTO
Requirements
- 7+ years of Hands on Tech Lead experience
- Proven leadership chops – line management, hiring, mentoring
- Deep experience in Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, and automated testing
- Strong full-stack skills: C#/.NET, React, TypeScript, Azure SQL
- Experience working in Legacy Codebases
- Practical AI build experience: RAG, retrieval/indexing, evaluation, prompt engineering, fine-tuning
- An architect’s mindset for designing resilient, scalable, and secure cloud solutions
- A product mindset: think in hypotheses and measurable outcomes
- Nice-to-haves: Familiarity with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Search, and vector stores
- Nice-to-haves: GraphQL experience, API integrations, Domain-Driven Design
Benefits
- Fantastic flexibility
- hybrid working
- 3 extra days of annual leave over Christmas
- quarterly catered socials or vouchers for remote working
- champion causes (e.g., International Women’s Day, R U OKAY?)
- internal mobility: side steps, up steps, secondments
- grab an apple from the kitchen, take a walk, stand-up desk
- flu shot on the house
- AUD1000 L&D budget
- Work from almost anywhere: work from anywhere for 2 weeks a year
- extra maternity and paternity leave on top of statutory allowances
- miscarriage & still birth leave policy
- Employee Assistance Program counselling sessions
- recognition program with points and vouchers
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