Senior Cloud-Native Microservices & AI Architect

Jobgether; Australia; On-site; AUD 165,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly rate

Contract 12 months

Remote flexibility

Leadership role

Job summary

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, seeks a Lead Microservices and AI Technical Architect in Australia. The role focuses on cloud-native, microservices, event-driven, and AI-enabled architectures to transform enterprise delivery.

You will provide architectural authority and guide engineering standards while embedding AI across the lifecycle. The engagement offers flexible and remote working arrangements within a 12-month contract, with potential extensions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and governing cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architectures within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to deliver scalable, resilient, secure, and business-critical technology platforms.
• Strong expertise in AI engineering and AI-enabled solution delivery, including enterprise AI capabilities, semantic search, machine learning solutions, deployment, operationalisation, and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural authority for the design, governance, evolution, and adoption of cloud-native, microservices-based, event-driven, and AI-enabled platforms.
• Ensure architecture and engineering decisions align with enterprise architecture, security requirements, business transformation objectives, and operational needs.
• Establish modern engineering and AI-enabled software development lifecycle practices, including DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and platform engineering standards.
• Guide the adoption of AI across the software delivery lifecycle, including appropriate approaches to AI-assisted engineering, enterprise AI capabilities, and responsible AI practices.
• Drive technology modernisation and platform adoption through microservices enhancement, containerisation, enterprise integration, and reusable architectural patterns.
• Promote scalable, maintainable, secure, and operationally resilient solutions across business-critical platforms.
• Provide technical direction for platform engineering, automation, reliability, security by design, and operational excellence.
• Influence architecture and engineering governance while supporting consistent standards across multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Build organisational capability through mentoring, knowledge transfer, technical coaching, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, delivery partners, and senior stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into practical technology outcomes.
• Champion engineering excellence and support the ongoing maturity of cloud, platform, microservices, AI, and software delivery capabilities.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures

AI engineering

DevSecOps

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Architecture governance

Cloud platforms

Strong communication

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AKS

EKS

GKE

Job description

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, seeks a Lead Microservices and AI Technical Architect in Australia. The role focuses on cloud-native, microservices, event-driven, and AI-enabled architectures to transform enterprise delivery.

You will provide architectural authority and guide engineering standards while embedding AI across the lifecycle. The engagement offers flexible and remote working arrangements within a 12-month contract, with potential extensions.