Principal Cloud & AI Architect

Centorrino Technologies Pty Ltd.; Canberra; On-site; AUD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Centorrino Technologies Pty Ltd. in Canberra is seeking a Lead Microservices & AI Technical Architect to provide senior technical leadership across a major technology transformation.

You will establish enterprise-scale microservices and event-driven foundations, modernise cloud-native platforms, and embed AI-enabled engineering practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle. You will influence architecture, set standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with executives, delivery partners

Qualifications

• Proven design and governance of cloud-native microservices.
• Experience with AI-enabled solution delivery and responsible AI.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement across executives and teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across cloud-native, microservices, event-driven and AI-enabled platforms.
• Define and govern architecture patterns, standards and practices.
• Lead AI-enabled software development and SDLC adoption.
• Establish DevSecOps, CI/CD, testing, observability and platform engineering.
• Drive modernisation, microservices adoption and reusable platform patterns.
• Translate business needs into scalable tech solutions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders.
• Mentor teams to uplift engineering capability and maturity.
• Promote continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
• Help evolve enterprise microservices and event-driven capabilities.

Skills

Cloud-native design

Microservices architecture

Event-driven architecture

AI engineering

Stakeholder leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AKS

EKS

GKE

Job description

At Centorrino Technologies (CT), we’re more than just tech—we’re a community that goes beyond expectations. We’ve been recognised as a Great Place to Work in 2024-2025 and one of the Best Places to Work Medium & Large Size in Australia for 2025, with an outstanding eNPS score of 68. And we’re not stopping there.

We are seeking aLead Microservices & AI Technical Architectto provide senior technical leadership across a major technology transformation program.

This is a strategic architecture role focused on establishing enterprise-scalemicroservices and event-driven architecture foundations, modernising cloud-native platforms, and embedding AI-enabled engineering practicesacross the software delivery lifecycle.

You will influence architecture and engineering decisions, establish modern technology and delivery standards, and help build the technical capability required to deliver secure, scalable, resilient and high-performing digital platforms.

What You'll Do

• Provide technical leadership and architectural authority across cloud-native, microservices, event-driven and AI-enabled platforms.
• Define and govern architecture patterns, engineering standards and technology practices.
• Lead the adoption of AI-enabled software development and delivery practices, including responsible AI and AI-assisted SDLC approaches.
• Establish and uplift DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, platform engineering and operational excellence practices.
• Drive technology modernisation, including microservices adoption, containerisation, enterprise integration and reusable platform patterns.
• Influence architecture and engineering decisions across complex technology transformation initiatives.
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into practical, scalable technology solutions.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, delivery partners and senior stakeholders.
• Provide technical mentoring, coaching and knowledge transfer to uplift engineering capability and maturity.
• Promote continuous improvement, innovation and engineering excellence across distributed teams.
• Help establish and evolve enterprise microservices and event-driven architecture capabilities.

What You'll Bring

• Extensive experience designing, implementing and governing cloud-native, microservices and event-driven architectures within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in AI engineering and AI-enabled solution delivery, including enterprise AI capabilities, semantic search, machine learning and responsible AI practices.
• Strong software and platform engineering capability across modern development frameworks, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability and security by design.
• Proven experience leading enterprise technology modernisation and transformation initiatives, influencing architecture decisions and delivering measurable improvements.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication and leadership skills, with experience working across senior executives, technical teams, delivery partners and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS, EKS or GKE, including platform automation, governance and workload management.
• Experience across cloud modernisation, SRE, platform engineering, observability and enterprise-scale automation.
• Experience leading Agile delivery teams, including geographically distributed teams, with a focus on coaching and capability uplift.
• Strong understanding of security, scalability, reliability and operational excellence in enterprise technology environments.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

Our company is more than just a workplace, it's a hub of inspiration and creativity where employees love to work! Here's why:

• Extensive training and development opportunities that enable continual growth as part of your career planning.
• Extensive discounts and benefits to maximise your money.
• A choice of your IT equipment to maximise your success and access to cost-price tech for your personal needs.
• Fun team events to celebrate achievements and connect with colleagues outside work as part of our engaging culture.

CT celebrates diversity and enables every voice to be heard as we drive to create the world we want.

Note: A valid Vulnerable People / Working with Children Check (WWCC) and Police Check are required.