Senior AI Technical Consultant

Elysium Digital; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Elysium Digital is seeking a Senior AI Technical Consultant / Technical Architect to drive enterprise-scale modernization, including microservices, event-driven architectures and AI-enabled engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle in Canberra.

The role requires leadership, cloud-native design, Azure expertise, and capability uplift across teams, engaging with senior stakeholders to turn business objectives into scalable technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native architecture design and implementation.
• Expertise in enterprise microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Proven track record in large Azure environments and cloud transformation programs.
• Experience in AI engineering, ML, semantic search or enterprise AI solutions.
• Strong DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines and platform engineering practices.
• Security-by-design and architecture governance expertise.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Ability to drive technology modernization and uplift organisational capability.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for cloud-native, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD and observability.
• Lead integration of AI-enabled capabilities across the software development lifecycle.
• Guide teams to build scalable, resilient and secure enterprise platforms.
• Influence technology roadmaps across large transformation programs.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns and governance frameworks.
• Mentor and transfer knowledge across teams.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to translate business objectives into technology solutions.

Skills

Cloud-native design

Microservices

Azure

AI engineering

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Architecture governance

Stakeholder influence

Tools

AKS

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Observability tools

Job description

We are seeking a Senior AI Technical Consultant / Technical Architect to join our team to support a significant business application transformation program. This position will require you to drive the establishment of enterprise scale microservices and event driven architecture capabilities while embedding AI-enabled engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the design and governance of cloud-native, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Drive the adoption of modern engineering practices, including DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing and observability.
• Lead the integration of AI-enabled capabilities across the software development lifecycle.
• Guide engineering teams in implementing scalable, resilient and secure enterprise platforms.
• Influence architecture decisions and technology roadmaps across large transformation programs.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, standards and engineering governance frameworks.
• Support capability uplift through mentoring, coaching and knowledge transfer.
• Engage with senior stakeholders and executives to translate business objectives into technology solutions.

About You

You are a highly experienced Architect, Principal Engineer or Technical Lead with a proven track record delivering enterprise-scale modernisation initiatives.

Essential Experience

• Cloud-native architecture design and implementation.
• Enterprise microservices and event-driven architecture.
• Large-scale Azure environments and cloud transformation programs.
• AI engineering, machine learning, semantic search or enterprise AI solutions.
• DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines and platform engineering practices.
• Architecture governance, security-by-design and engineering excellence.
• Leading multidisciplinary teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Driving technology modernisation and organisational capability uplift.

Highly Desirable

• Kubernetes and container platforms (AKS, OpenShift, EKS or GKE).
• Platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Observability and enterprise automation practices.
• Experience implementing AI and Generative AI solutions using modern cloud platforms.
• Federal Government or large enterprise experience.
• Agile delivery leadership across distributed teams.

Technology Environment

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience across:

• Azure Cloud
• Microservices Architecture
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Kubernetes / AKS
• API Management
• DevSecOps
• CI/CD Toolchains
• Observability Platforms
• AI / Generative AI
• Semantic Search
• Enterprise Integration Patterns

Security Requirements

• Australian Citizenship is required, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Baseline Security Clearance. Existing clearance holders are strongly encouraged to apply