Senior AI Platform Architect & Roadmap Lead

Fortescue Pre-Order Sales; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortescue is seeking an experienced Lead Platform Architect to shape and evolve our AI Platform within the Data and AI team. You will translate business requirements into scalable capabilities, collaborating with engineering, product and operations to drive the platform roadmap and adoption of innovative AI solutions.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership, establishing security, governance and operational readiness while mentoring engineers and aligning platform designs with enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant 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, integration patterns 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, prototyping and engineering guidance.
• Advanced knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, identity and access management, secure integration, resilience and scalability.
• Practical understanding of retrieval‑augmented generation, agent orchestration, context management, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI evaluation and guardrails.
• Experience with observability, AI model and agent evaluation, performance monitoring, capacity planning and cost optimisation.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and technical mentoring skills, with experience collaborating across engineering, product, operations and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of the AI Platform, defining reusable services, integration patterns and technical solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Develop and maintain the platform technical roadmap, prioritising capability improvements, business requirements and technical debt.
• Design secure, scalable solutions for generative AI, large language models and intelligent agents, including retrieval, orchestration and enterprise integration.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership through architecture reviews, prototypes, implementation guidance and resolution of complex technical challenges.
• Embed security, identity management, data protection, auditability and appropriate governance controls into platform designs.
• Establish operational readiness standards covering monitoring, evaluation, performance, reliability, recovery and cost management.
• Support platform adoption through reference implementations, technical guidance, onboarding and continuous improvement of the developer experience.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, data, security and integration teams to manage dependencies and deliver seamless platform changes.
• Maintain architecture documentation, technical decision records and compliance with enterprise governance and change management processes.
• Mentor architects and engineers, strengthen technical capability and drive platform improvements through measurable business outcomes.

Skills

Python

C#

Distributed systems

APIs

Security

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Fortescue is seeking an experienced Lead Platform Architect to shape and evolve our AI Platform within the Data and AI team. You will translate business requirements into scalable capabilities, collaborating with engineering, product and operations to drive the platform roadmap and adoption of innovative AI solutions.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership, establishing security, governance and operational readiness while mentoring engineers and aligning platform designs with enterprise