About the Role
Lead AI Agent development lifecycle end-to-end, shaping AI engineering standards and driving technical delivery from discovery and experimentation through design, build, and reliable production operations. Build scalable, secure, maintainable full-stack agentic solutions and contribute to AI Agent and Agentic Platform strategy, focusing on AIOps/DevSecOps, AI observability, evaluation, reliability, resilience, and proactive cost management. Collaborate with product, design, SMEs, and engineers to align on shared frameworks, deliver reusable capabilities, and uplift engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Leading end-to-end AI agent development from discovery through to reliable production outcomes
- Setting and uplifting AI engineering standards, practices and ways of working across squads
- Driving secure, scalable and observable AI-native solutions that perform in production
- Partnering closely with product, design and business stakeholders to solve meaningful problems
- Supporting and mentoring engineers to build capability, confidence and engineering excellence
- Championing reuse, shared platforms and frameworks to accelerate delivery and consistency
Requirements
- 10+ years’ cloud-native full-stack experience (React/Next.js; TypeScript/Python)
- Hands-on AI engineering (RAG, LLM agent orchestration using frameworks such as LangChain/CrewAI/LangGraph; vector databases; evaluation and grounding)
- Strong AWS and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., ECS/Lambda/Terraform)
- Mature CI/CD, security automation, and quality engineering (e.g., GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, LaunchDarkly, Playwright, Langfuse/Dynatrace)
- Extensive experience leading full stack engineering in cloud-native environments
- Proven hands-on experience building and running AI or agentic systems in production
- Strong capability across modern AI engineering, including orchestration, evaluation and observability
- Deep experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD and production ownership in regulated environments
- Solid cloud engineering experience, ideally across AWS and infrastructure as code
- Experience working in product-led, agile teams delivering customer-focused outcomes
- Experience in insurance or other regulated industries is a plus
Skills
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Python
- RAG
- LLM agent orchestration
- LangChain
- CrewAI
- LangGraph
- Vector databases
- Evaluation
- Grounding
- AWS
- Infrastructure as Code
- ECS
- Lambda
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Security automation
- Quality engineering
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- LaunchDarkly
- Playwright
- Langfuse
- Dynatrace
- DevSecOps
- AIOps
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Benefits
- 5 weeks of annual leave for permanent staff
- 15 days of personal/carer’s leave
- Access to Family Care (parental leave)
- Hybrid working arrangement (3 days in office, 2 days WFH)
- Programs to stay healthy
- AUD$500 wellbeing payment per year
- AUD$295 new starter e-voucher for work-from-home setup
- Award-winning training programs
- Global mobility opportunities
- Volunteer opportunities
- State-of-the-art Green Star rated offices
- A tree planted for every new employee
About the Company
- Forbes 2024 ‘World’s Best Employers’
- Fortune’s ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’ for 2025
- Leader in the insurance industry
- Values-driven global organisation experiencing real growth and transformation
- Committed to making a tangible difference and taking continuous steps towards a sustainable future
Equal Opportunity
- Zurich is an equal opportunity employer.
- Committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair and accessible for all candidates.
- If you require any special accommodations to participate in our recruitment process, we encourage you to please let us know at the time of your application.
