Platform & Engineering Lead: Cloud, Data & AI

Expert360; Gold Coast City; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Superannuation

STI

Job summary

Expert360 is seeking a Head of Platforms and Engineering on the Gold Coast to lead the Group's shared technology platforms and architecture. You will report to the Group CIO and drive the platform across cloud, data, integration, automation, AI, security and architecture.

You’ll manage a ~10-person multidisciplinary team, govern tech standards, own the platform roadmap and optimise AWS/Azure costs, with four days in the office and interstate travel.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading platform, engineering or architecture teams, including contractors and vendors.
• Enterprise-scale architecture ownership, ideally including chairing a governance forum.
• Hands-on depth in AWS and/or Azure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and API-led integration.
• Practical data platform experience, ideally on the Microsoft stack.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical and solution architecture across the Group, including architecture governance and design standards.
• Own the shared platform roadmap, and make build, buy or outsource calls and vendor selections.
• Design and deliver cloud, infrastructure, integration and data platforms, with clear handover to IT Operations.
• Manage cloud consumption and platform costs across AWS and Azure.
• Lead data platform engineering on the Microsoft data stack.
• Engineer and support automation and AI solutions in production.
• Design and build security controls to the CISO’s standards.
• Manage managed service providers and platform partners.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team of around 10 people and establish strong engineering practice.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud architecture

AWS/Azure

CI/CD

Data platform

Automation AI

Vendor management

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Tech degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Expert360 is seeking a Head of Platforms and Engineering on the Gold Coast to lead the Group's shared technology platforms and architecture. You will report to the Group CIO and drive the platform across cloud, data, integration, automation, AI, security and architecture.

You’ll manage a ~10-person multidisciplinary team, govern tech standards, own the platform roadmap and optimise AWS/Azure costs, with four days in the office and interstate travel.