Top Engineering Jobs in Melbourne

As R&D Director, you'll lead the ANZ R&D function, drive innovation, and build capabilities while collaborating with various departments to ensure operational readiness and regulatory compliance.

Designs and integrates systems across Hivemind Vision and Mission Autonomy stacks. Captures requirements, develops system architectures, creates SysML/UML/UPDM models, supports MBSE workflows, and connects system models with codebases. Collaborates with program leadership, design, development, integration, testing, product, and business development teams. Maintains systems engineering processes and reports project status, risks, and accomplishments to senior leadership.

Leads ML and platform engineering teams building scalable, production-grade machine learning infrastructure. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, guiding architecture and engineering trade-offs, improving MLOps maturity and observability, translating business goals into delivery plans, managing roadmaps, maintaining system health, and supporting production incidents through code review, debugging, or hands-on development. The role supports AI products including conversational GenAI, automated bank reconciliation, document capture, and cash-flow forecasting.

The Engineering Manager will lead software delivery teams, champion AI workflows, resolve technical challenges, and enhance engineering practices to meet business goals.

Lead a distributed data engineering team to design, build, and maintain core data models and real-time data flows on an AWS/Snowflake platform. Balance strategic architecture and hands-on delivery, manage risks and dependencies, establish SLOs and DataOps practices, and coach senior engineers to improve platform quality and performance.

Lead long-term technical direction and architecture for Product Platform Engineering. Modernize and decouple a legacy accounting monolith into resilient APIs and microservices, drive platform reliability and scalability, establish engineering principles and guardrails for AI-native and autonomous workflows, and align senior stakeholders around architectural strategy.

Lead and manage multiple engineering teams across Transfers, Client Treasury, and GTPN Infrastructure to define technical vision, deliver high-quality payment and treasury products, remove blockers, collaborate with product and design, measure product performance using data, and scale global payment infrastructure.

Lead and mentor engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable automation and onboarding systems. Implement AI/data-driven risk detection, collaborate with product/ops/compliance, drive architecture and reliability, and improve operational efficiency.

Designs, develops, executes, and maintains automated tests and frameworks. The role supports automation-first strategies, test planning, API and BDD testing, quality engineering innovation, and documentation. It requires coding expertise, familiarity with testing tools and frameworks, object-oriented programming, Git, Agile practices, and strong communication. Cloud and continuous integration or deployment experience are desirable.

Lead Xero's shared Data Engineering function to execute data and platform strategy, deliver reliable self-service and AI-first data platforms, embed governance-by-design, improve observability and operational health, grow senior leadership, and enable domain teams through reusable platforms, patterns and guardrails.

Lead engineering teams to improve Azure Storage service quality, resiliency, chaos engineering, and validation infrastructure. Integrate AI tools and Responsible AI across the SDLC, coordinate cross-team plans, resolve complex incidents, and ensure scalable performance and best practices.

The Design Manager oversees the design team for Defence projects, ensuring quality delivery and adherence to plans. They coordinate design activities, manage documentation, and maintain communication across projects.

The Director of Engineering will lead the execution of engineering and capital strategies across the Asia-Pacific network, driving infrastructure performance and operational excellence while managing a high-performing team.

Lead Canva’s Core IT function by setting strategy, building a global technology roadmap, developing high-performing teams, and improving workforce technology experiences. Oversee onboarding, device and access management, network infrastructure, campus technology, AI, and automation. Establish data-driven service measurement, represent IT with executive stakeholders, and ensure high-priority initiatives remain aligned and on track.

Own Linktree’s AI operations platform, including pipelines, model and prompt versioning, evaluations, monitoring, rollback, cost, latency, and reliability. Drive internal AI adoption across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support through tooling and agent workflows. Establish practical governance for data handling and vendor risk, make build-versus-buy decisions, align AI investment with business priorities, and mentor engineers and analysts.

Lead multiple engineering squads across technical direction, architecture, delivery, and stakeholder management. Mentor squad leaders and engineers, manage engineering team leads, improve engineering practices, monitor delivery efficiency, promote modern development and DevOps practices, and contribute to building a high-quality engineering organization.

Lead development and delivery of support engineering solutions and service delivery for OneSKY. Manage ILS/LSA activities, coordinate teams and subcontractors, ensure contractual and financial compliance, drive continuous improvement, and maintain strategic customer partnerships through transition to go-live and sustainment.

Lead a cloud engineering squad (Polaris) to deliver cost-efficient, compliant cloud operations. Drive roadmap delivery, maintain engineering and operational quality, grow a high-performing team through coaching and recruitment, and deliver automation, guidance and custodianship across platform services.

Lead one or more cross-functional SAP-domain engineering squads to deliver product outcomes, manage stakeholder expectations, develop engineers, drive engineering best practices (TDD, CI/CD, DevOps), and contribute to architecture and tooling decisions while improving squad performance and delivery transparency.

Leads engineering strategy and roadmap for AMP’s enterprise wealth platform. Owns reliability, resilience, security, automation, observability, operational governance, and continuous improvement. Coordinates across development, SRE, production support, architecture, security, and infrastructure teams; leads modernization initiatives, major incident investigations, release readiness, and engineering-standard improvements. The role provides technical leadership across complex Microsoft enterprise environments and supports scalable, secure technology outcomes in a regulated financial-services setting.

Deliver quality and testing solutions within consultancy teams. Work independently on small-to-medium complexity projects in traditional and agile environments, completing allocated tasks to time and quality and escalating to senior staff when needed.

Work with R&D team to design and build cross-platform mobile mapping apps. Collaborate with developers, designers, and testers to solve application design and user-experience problems and develop field data-collection and GIS verification apps.

Develop and test cross-platform mobile GIS apps. Collaborate with developers, designers, and testers to define user requirements, perform software testing and automation, and support field data collection and GIS data verification.

Leads go-to-market efforts for industrial AI capabilities, partnering with sales, presales, R&D, and services teams to qualify opportunities, conduct discovery, design solutions, and deliver demonstrations and proofs of concept. Engages executives and technical stakeholders, advises customers on AI adoption, represents the company at industry events, monitors market trends, and influences product roadmap priorities through customer insights.

Lead a squad of 3–5 engineers while remaining hands-on with full-stack development, architecture, coding, code reviews, reliability, and production delivery. Partner with Product and Design to build secure, scalable home lending platforms. Own the software lifecycle, promote CI/CD, DevOps, observability, automated testing, AI-assisted development, and continuous improvement. Influence engineering strategy, technical standards, platform sustainability, and capability uplift across the broader engineering organization.