Head of AI Platform Architecture

Fortescue Metals Group; Perth; On-site; AUD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortescue seeks an experienced Lead Platform Architect to steer the design and evolution of its AI Platform within the Data and AI team. You will translate business needs into secure, scalable capabilities and drive platform roadmaps across engineering, product and operations.

You will mentor architects and engineers, define reusable services, and ensure governance, security and cost controls across generative AI solutions and enterprise integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Substantial experience in software engineering, solution architecture or platform architecture, including leading complex platforms from design through production.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering production AI solutions involving generative AI, large language models or intelligent agents.
• Proven ability to design reusable platform services and scalable solutions adopted across multiple teams.
• Practical experience with AWS or Azure, enterprise data integration, containers, infrastructure as code and automated delivery pipelines.
• Strong programming capability in Python, C# or comparable languages, including technical reviews and prototyping.
• Advanced knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, identity and access management, secure integration, resilience and scalability.
• Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation, agent orchestration, context management, MCP, AI evaluation and guardrails.
• Experience with observability, AI model evaluation, performance monitoring, capacity planning and cost optimisation.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and technical mentoring; Snowflake/mining/OT experience advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of the AI Platform, defining reusable services and integration patterns.
• Develop and maintain the platform technical roadmap, prioritising capability improvements and technical debt.
• Design secure, scalable solutions for generative AI, including retrieval, orchestration and enterprise integration.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews, prototypes and guidance.
• Embed security, identity management, data protection, auditability and governance controls into designs.
• Establish operational readiness standards covering monitoring, performance, reliability and cost management.
• Support platform adoption through reference implementations and developer experience improvements.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, data, security and integration teams to manage dependencies.
• Maintain architecture documentation and governance compliance.
• Mentor architects and engineers to drive platform improvements.

Skills

Platform architecture leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

Python programming

C# programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)

IaC / CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Job description

Fortescue seeks an experienced Lead Platform Architect to steer the design and evolution of its AI Platform within the Data and AI team. You will translate business needs into secure, scalable capabilities and drive platform roadmaps across engineering, product and operations.

You will mentor architects and engineers, define reusable services, and ensure governance, security and cost controls across generative AI solutions and enterprise integration.