Engineering Manager

Who We Are

We are a global technology consultancy with a trademarked, AI-first engineering approach for accelerating the delivery of digital products and revolutionizing platform modernization. We do the right thing, and we do it right. We're proud to be a World Economic Forum New Champion, and a B Corp-certified company.

About Gen-e2

While the market is still largely AI-augmenting delivery, we have reinvented the SDLC to be AI First. Our approach is a game-changer in productivity and quality:

• We now generate 95% of the entire product — code, documentation, infrastructure as code, and even design — with GitHub Copilot.
• The quality consistently exceeds the output of our best traditional engineering teams.
• A product repository houses all product artefacts, giving AI full project context for higher-quality generation.
• A library of rules and prompts defines coding standards, design principles, and security guidelines, ensuring enterprise-grade quality and scalability.

With Gen-e2, we deliver end-to-end products 2–3× faster than traditional approaches, while raising the bar for engineering excellence.

Your Role

As an Engineering Manager at PALO IT, you will lead high-impact, AI-driven engineering initiatives from discovery to delivery. You'll be accountable for technical excellence, team capability growth, and client success, ensuring every project aligns with Gen-e2 speed-to-impact model.

You will:

• Lead multi-disciplinary engineering and product teams delivering AI-driven, cloud-native, and DevSecOps-enabled solutions at scale.
• Shape technical strategy — guiding clients through transformative adoption of fully AI-driven delivery models.
• Conduct technical analysis, define solution architectures, and facilitate client workshops to define project technical approaches.
• Implement Gen-e2 best practices — from product repository artefacts to AI prompt libraries for coding standards, architecture, and security compliance.
• Upskill and coach client teams in Gen-e2 — enabling them to adopt AI-driven ways of working and embed them in their culture.
• Guide organisations in scaling Gen-e2 — creating strategies and frameworks for enterprise-wide adoption.
• Drive productivity and quality — leveraging AI to generate the majority of artefacts while enforcing rigorous review and validation processes.
• Foster AI-first engineering culture — mentoring teams to master AI-first ways of working across research, design, prototyping, backlog creation and code generation.
• Continuously experiment to practices and improve our delivery approach — leveraging the latest AI capabilities, tools, and patterns to push the boundaries of product engineering.
• Engage stakeholders — ensuring that we deliver at least 50% faster than client's expectations.

What You Bring

• Proven leadership in engineering or technical consulting roles, ideally in cloud-native, DevOps, and AI-driven environments.
• Strong background in software engineering, systems design, and architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot) and prompt engineering best practices.
• Passion for AI in product engineering and a drive to continuously reinvent how we deliver products by harnessing the latest AI capabilities.
• Expertise in AWS or Azure, serverless architectures, and container orchestration.
• Mastery of DevOps practices: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automation, and observability.
• Experience coaching and developing engineering teams in high-performance, agile environments.
• Experience training and enabling client teams in new delivery models or methodologies.
• Ability to navigate complex stakeholder landscapes and deliver business-aligned technical solutions.
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale toolchains (Atlassian suite, Azure DevOps, GitHub) and platform migrations.
• A mindset that thrives in innovation, ambiguity, and change.

Why Join Us?

• AI-driven delivery culture — with AI underpinning most of what we deliver.
• Stimulating and collaborative work environments.
• International mobility and cross-office opportunities.
• Internal R&D projects and innovation labs.
• Knowledge-sharing culture and personalised training paths.

For more on our team culture and benefits, check out our careers page.

MORE ABOUT PALO IT:

We're eager to adapt to change, learn from our experiences and move to meet our planet's urgent needs. We are continuously taking action to:

• Become a climate net-zero company
• Attain 50% of revenue from projects with a positive impact
• Train 100% of our workforce on impact
• Achieve B Corp certification among all our offices across the globe
• Continuously measure & improve employee happiness

Our clients are amongst the world's most successful companies. We innovate with both established Fortune 1000s, SMEs and start-ups who aim to make an impact, become global leaders and address the world's most complex challenges.

We will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Australia, and do not require sponsorship of a visa.

PALO IT Australia is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Palo IT AU does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.

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