Senior Developer / Tech Lead - AI Lab

About the role

Datacom is undergoing a major AI uplift in its New Zealand market and is looking for Senior Developers and Tech Leads to join its Digital Engineering team. You will focus on delivering innovative AI-driven software solutions, working with cross-functional teams to design, develop and use the latest AI models that address complex business challenges.

Required profile

• 7+ years of 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.)
• Passion for AI development and willingness to push boundaries

Required skills

• 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: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), infrastructure-as-code and automated testing
• Nice to have: agent frameworks (AutoGen, CrewAI), multimodal workflows, embedding models, workspace automation, advanced RAG variants and streaming LLMs

What we offer

• Paid parental leave
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (DataCare)
• Ongoing learning, certifications and career development
• Learning platforms, recognition programmes and employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and financial wellbeing benefits