Senior Architect: Cloud-Native Microservices & AI

Federal Goverment; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A major Australian federal agency is transforming its technology foundation and is establishing a first enterprise microservices and AI-enabled platform architecture. They seek a Lead Microservices and AI Technical Architect to provide technical leadership, set architectural standards and drive AI adoption across the service lifecycle.

In this senior role you will shape cloud-native platforms, focus on direction over hands-on coding, and influence architecture decisions while guiding dispersed

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and governing cloud-native, microservices architectures in complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in AI engineering and AI-enabled solution delivery.
• Strong platform engineering capability including DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing and security by design.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural authority for cloud-native, microservices-based platforms, aligned with enterprise architecture and security objectives.
• Lead the adoption of modern engineering practices, including DevSecOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, automated testing and observability.
• Drive technology modernisation, containerisation and microservices implementation to enhance scalability, resilience and operational performance.
• Build organisational capability through knowledge transfer, mentoring and leadership of multidisciplinary teams.
• Provide technical direction on the integration of AI throughout the software development lifecycle, from inception through to operationalisation.

Skills

Cloud-native design

Microservices architecture

AI engineering

DevSecOps

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Agile delivery

Site Reliability Engineering

Job description

A major Australian federal agency is transforming its technology foundation and is establishing a first enterprise microservices and AI-enabled platform architecture. They seek a Lead Microservices and AI Technical Architect to provide technical leadership, set architectural standards and drive AI adoption across the service lifecycle.

In this senior role you will shape cloud-native platforms, focus on direction over hands-on coding, and influence architecture decisions while guiding dispersed