AI Platform Tech Lead (Apigee X & Multi Cloud)

At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together. We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow. The Role We are seeking a hands-on AI Platform Tech Lead to bridge solution architecture and shipped deliverables. You will lead the day-to-day engineering efforts across the gateway, enabling a team of developers, while driving build, test, and release momentum. While this is a technical leadership position rather than a people-management role, you will guide technical direction, unblock engineers, establish standards, and own epics, runbooks, PRDs, and stakeholder updates. About the Project We are building a cutting-edge Apigee X AI Gateway designed to front large language model (LLM) inference and emerging agentic patterns (such as MCP and A2A). The gateway connects consumers from multiple clouds and enterprise networks, routes requests to inference providers, and abstracts provider specifics behind OpenAI-compatible interfaces. What You Will Lead Technical Leadership & Delivery: Translate architectural blueprints into buildable epics, user stories, and implementation plans. Own gateway capabilities end-to-end, including API contracts, integration patterns, consumer onboarding, and provider abstractions. AI Gateway Engineering: Design, build, and harden product-grade API capabilities on Apigee X for AI inference and agentic workloads. Implement OpenAI-compatible patterns (streaming, embeddings, tool calling, multi-turn conversations). Multi-Cloud Provider Abstraction: Build extensible patter