AI Platform & Innovation Architect

Colonial First State Investments Limited; Sydney; On-site; AUD 230,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer Super

Home loan discounts

24/7 confidential support

Birthday leave

Life Leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Colonial First State Investments Limited in Sydney is seeking a Director to lead AI architecture, platforms and innovation. You will shape enterprise AI strategy, establish reference architectures, and drive scalable, secure AI across the organisation.

You'll partner with technology teams, manage vendor assessments, and steer transformation of data and cloud platforms. The role requires deep experience in cloud-native architectures, production AI, and strong stakeholder engagement to deliver

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise technology architecture experience.
• Proven success delivering cloud-native AI solutions.
• Experience with AI platforms and governance.
• Strong stakeholder engagement across business and tech.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Technology groups to align AI architecture with enterprise strategy.
• Define and maintain AI reference architectures and blueprints.
• Lead AI platform and vendor assessments.
• Own AI architecture, APIs, orchestration and security.
• Drive alignment between AI, data and cloud platforms.
• Shape platform selection and technology investment decisions.
• Support scalable, value-driven AI delivery.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud-native architectures

Azure/AWS

AI platforms

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Databricks

AWS Bedrock

Job description

Colonial First State Investments Limited in Sydney is seeking a Director to lead AI architecture, platforms and innovation. You will shape enterprise AI strategy, establish reference architectures, and drive scalable, secure AI across the organisation.

You'll partner with technology teams, manage vendor assessments, and steer transformation of data and cloud platforms. The role requires deep experience in cloud-native architectures, production AI, and strong stakeholder engagement to deliver