Senior Data & AI Architect — Cloud Strategy Lead

Cbre; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Primary carer leave (14 weeks)

Return-to-work bonus (1 month)

Secondary carer leave (4 weeks)

Discounted Qantas flights

Discounted Bupa health insurance

Two paid volunteer days

Free gym classes

End of trip facilities

Job summary

CBRE Sydney is seeking a Data & AI Architect to lead the design, delivery and evolution of enterprise data & AI capabilities across the Pacific region. You will shape strategy, lead a high-performing team, and remain hands-on delivering impactful data and AI solutions.

Working with senior business and technology leaders, you will drive the architecture roadmap, establish best practices, and deliver scalable data, analytics and AI platforms that enable smarter decision-making and innovation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering, data/solution architecture or AI/ML platform roles, including 5+ years in a senior architecture/leadership capacity.
• Proven experience designing and delivering cloud-based data platforms (Lakehouse architectures on Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks or Snowflake).
• Experience designing and deploying AI, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions.
• Knowledge of LLMs, RAG, MLOps and Vector Database architectures.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, modelling, integration and governance practices.
• Hands-on technical capability in Python, Java, JavaScript or C#.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, team leadership and influencing skills.
• The ability to balance long-term strategy with practical delivery outcome

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Data & AI professionals.
• Own CBRE's Data & AI architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Establish current and future-state data architecture aligned to business and technology strategy.
• Provide architectural leadership across data domains, platforms, integrations and data flows.
• Guide the design of cloud-based data platforms, models, pipelines and storage architectures.
• Ensure platforms and data ingestion are scalable, secure, cost-efficient and aligned to enterprise standards.
• Drive modernisation initiatives, to rationalise data stores and platforms to reduce duplication and promote reuse.
• Build AI-ready data foundations that support innovation and advanced analytics.
• Remain hands-on across architecture, solution design and strategic project delivery.

Skills

Python

Java

JavaScript

C#

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

CBRE Sydney is seeking a Data & AI Architect to lead the design, delivery and evolution of enterprise data & AI capabilities across the Pacific region. You will shape strategy, lead a high-performing team, and remain hands-on delivering impactful data and AI solutions.

Working with senior business and technology leaders, you will drive the architecture roadmap, establish best practices, and deliver scalable data, analytics and AI platforms that enable smarter decision-making and innovation.