Senior/Tech Lead - AI Development
DatacomTauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Posted September 10, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services, with a dynamic, agile, small business feel.
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior/Tech Lead developer to join our Digital Engineering team and work on cutting-edge AI-driven software solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience in AI development, Python and Typescript, and cloud-native engineering skills.
Requirements
- 7+ years professional software development (Python and Typescript preferred) with production ML/AI experience
- Demonstrated delivery of at least one generative-AI solution in production (chatbot, summariser, code assistant, etc.)
- Deep familiarity with transformers and orchestration stacks such as LangChain v0.2+, LlamaIndex or Semantic Kernel
- Practical experience deploying or fine-tuning models on Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry or AWS Bedrock / SageMaker
- Hands-on with RAG patterns, vector databases and evaluation metrics (BLEU, ROUGE-L, GPTScore)
- Cloud-native engineering skills: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), infra-as-code and automated testing
Benefits
- Social events
- Chill-out spaces
- Remote working
- Flexi-hours
- Professional development courses