Lead Cloud and AI Architect

Jobtailor; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Canberra seeks a senior technical leader to drive cloud and AI architecture across the service delivery lifecycle. You will influence engineering decisions and champion modern, secure, scalable platform designs, while guiding capability transfer within delivery teams.

The role requires strong cloud-native and microservices expertise, SRE practice, and a track record of enterprise-scale modernization.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and governing cloud-native, microservices and event-driven architectures in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience delivering scalable, resilient, secure platforms.
• Ability to lead modernization initiatives, influence architecture decisions and deliver measurable improvements.
• Experience with cloud platform modernization, SRE, observability tooling and enterprise automation is desirable.
• Baseline clearance required.
• CV must be uploaded to be considered.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for cloud and AI architecture.
• Influence system builds and engineering decisions.
• Guide adoption of AI across the service delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure capability transfer occurs throughout delivery.
• Design, implement and govern cloud-native, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Lead enterprise technology modernisation and transformation initiatives.
• Provide technical direction and influence architecture decisions.
• Deliver measurable improvements in platform reliability, security, scalability and engineering maturity.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

Microservices design

DevSecOps

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform engineering

Observability

Security by design

Operational excellence

Event-driven architecture

Technical leadership

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

Automation frameworks

Job description

• Provide technical leadership for cloud and AI architecture.
• Influence system builds and engineering decisions.
• Guide adoption of AI across the service delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure capability transfer occurs throughout delivery.
• Design, implement and govern cloud-native, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Lead enterprise technology modernisation and transformation initiatives.
• Provide technical direction and influence architecture decisions.
• Deliver measurable improvements in platform reliability, security, scalability and engineering maturity.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering and platform engineering capability, including modern development frameworks, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security by design and operational excellence.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing and governing cloud native, microservices and event driven architectures within complex enterprise environments.
• Experience delivering scalable, resilient and secure business critical platforms.
• Ability to lead enterprise technology modernisation and transformation initiatives, providing technical direction, influencing architecture decisions and delivering measurable improvements in platform reliability, security, scalability and engineering maturity.
• Experience with cloud platform modernisation, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, observability tooling and enterprise scale automation practices is highly desirable.
• Must have minimum Baseline clearance.
• CV must be uploaded to be considered.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in cloud-native architecture, microservices, and event-driven systems, with a strong focus on platform reliability, security, and scalability. Proven ability to lead technology modernization initiatives and influence architectural decisions in complex enterprise environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Cloud-Native Architecture
• Microservices Design
• DevSecOps
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Platform Engineering

Hard Skills

• Software Engineering
• Platform Engineering
• CI/CD
• Automated Testing
• Observability
• Security By Design
• Operational Excellence
• Enterprise Scale Automation
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Technical Leadership

Certifications & Qualifications

• Baseline Clearance

Industry Keywords

• Cloud Platform Modernisation
• Technology Transformation
• System Builds
• Engineering Decisions
• Capability Transfer