AI-Driven Microservices Technical Lead

Laneway Talent; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Laneway Talent is partnering with a Federal Government department in Canberra to recruit a senior Microservices & AI Technical Lead. You will shape cloud-native architectures, drive AI-enabled engineering and modern delivery practices across large, complex environments.

The role demands technical leadership, governance, and collaboration with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technology outcomes, ensuring security, reliability and operational resilience.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cloud-native architectures, microservices and AI-enabled delivery.
• Proven ability to lead complex enterprise technology programs.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps, CI/CD and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for cloud-native, microservices-based and AI-enabled platforms.
• Influence architecture, engineering and technology decisions across complex enterprise environments.
• Establish modern engineering and AI delivery practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Drive adoption of DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability and platform engineering.
• Support the adoption of AI-enabled software development practices.
• Drive technology modernisation and platform adoption.
• Enhance microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Support containerisation and integration of enterprise systems.
• Develop and promote reusable architecture and engineering patterns.
• Improve platform scalability, maintainability, security and operational resilience.
• Build organisational capability through knowledge sharing, mentoring and technical leadership.
• Lead and influence multidisciplinary engineering and delivery teams.
• Establish engineering governance and promote continuous improvement.
• Work with senior stakeholders and delivery partners to translate business requirements into practical technology outcomes.

Skills

Cloud-native

Microservices

Event-driven

AI engineering

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Automated testing

Observability

Security by design

Engineering maturity

Technical governance

Stakeholder comms

Team leadership

Job description

Laneway Talent is partnering with a Federal Government department in Canberra to recruit a senior Microservices & AI Technical Lead. You will shape cloud-native architectures, drive AI-enabled engineering and modern delivery practices across large, complex environments.

The role demands technical leadership, governance, and collaboration with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technology outcomes, ensuring security, reliability and operational resilience.