Senior Data & AI Architect: Lead Strategy & Platforms

CBRE Group, Inc.; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Executive exposure

Pacific-region leadership role

Work with leading cloud technologies

Employee benefits & recognition

Job summary

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

You will drive architecture roadmaps, establish best practices, and deliver scalable data platforms to enable smarter decision-making and innovation for CBRE’s clients across the Pacific.

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 deploying AI, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions with MLOps and vector databases.

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#

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

LLMs

Vector DB

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

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

You will drive architecture roadmaps, establish best practices, and deliver scalable data platforms to enable smarter decision-making and innovation for CBRE’s clients across the Pacific.