AD, AI Platform Engineering & Financial Operations

Role Overview

The AD, AI Platform Engineering & Financial Operations leads the engineering, operation, and optimization of the enterprise AI platform, ensuring AI services are secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective across Network Operations.

What You Will Do

Own the AI platform strategy, roadmap, and capability maturity plan to support operational AI, automation, and autonomous network operations. Lead the engineering and industrialization of scalable, secure, and resilient AI runtime platforms and reusable AI services.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires strong technical leadership and the ability to lead through influence as a senior individual contributor, with the opportunity to develop into a people leadership role over time.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience engineering and operating enterprise AI/ML platforms, model serving environments or high-scale runtime services.
• Strong knowledge of AI infrastructure, cloud, GPU/CPU compute, model routing, inference, vector databases, observability, and modern platform engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of AI FinOps, consumption-based cost management, capacity optimization, and commercial management of cloud and AI services.
• Proven ability to define platform strategy, engineering standards, governance, and roadmaps and translate them into measurable operational outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-domain teams and influence senior stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Architecture, Security, Finance, and Technology.
• Strong commercial, financial, and vendor management capability, including investment prioritization, contract performance, and value realization.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/AI, Technology, or equivalent significant industry experience.

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration
• Employee discounts
• $80 monthly credit
• 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners
• Flexible working arrangements
• Competitive leave policies
• Additional ‘Connected’ days to focus on culture, family, health, community, or whatever’s important to you
• Paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks
• Direct your own development and build future-ready skills with Optus U’s industry-focused micro-credentials
• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives
• Free access to counselling and support services