Senior Data & AI Platform Architect

Anson McCade; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Anson McCade is seeking an experienced Senior Architect to lead the design and delivery of next-generation data and AI platforms across complex enterprise environments in Canberra. You will combine architecture depth with hands-on data engineering to shape modern cloud data solutions across AWS, Azure and GCP.

You will guide technical design sessions, break down requirements into practical workstreams, and provide technical leadership across engineering teams while remaining hands-on across

Qualifications

• Broad data architecture experience across modern data engineering technologies.
• Hands-on capability with data engineering and cloud platforms.
• Ability to lead technical design sessions and translate requirements into practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering modern cloud-based data and AI architectures.
• Assessing existing environments and defining future-state data platforms.
• Leading technical design sessions and translating complex requirements into practical solutions.
• Building modern lakehouse, warehouse, streaming and data engineering platforms.
• Evaluating architectural options, articulating trade-offs and driving technical decisions.
• Breaking complex solutions into clear engineering workstreams.
• Providing technical leadership across engineering teams.
• Remaining hands-on across architecture, engineering and solution design.
• Supporting solution shaping and technical scoping for new initiatives.

Skills

Data architecture

Technical leadership

Hands-on data engineering

Cloud solutions

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Fivetran

dbt

Python

Scala

Java

SQL

Apache Kafka

Databricks

MLflow

Apache Airflow

Kubernetes

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Anson McCade is seeking an experienced Senior Architect to lead the design and delivery of next-generation data and AI platforms across complex enterprise environments in Canberra. You will combine architecture depth with hands-on data engineering to shape modern cloud data solutions across AWS, Azure and GCP.

You will guide technical design sessions, break down requirements into practical workstreams, and provide technical leadership across engineering teams while remaining hands-on across