Senior Enterprise AI Architect for Scalable Impact

Mane Consulting; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Mane Consulting seeks an AI architecture leader to shape enterprise AI strategy across a national-scale organisation. You will own end-to-end AI architectures, define governance, and drive scalable, compliant platforms that deliver meaningful societal impact.

You will mentor AI/ML and data engineering teams, partner with product and business leaders to identify opportunities, and establish reusable blueprints spanning ingestion, model lifecycles and deployment.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years in AI/ML roles, with deep experience in LLMs/agentic AI, architecture and governance.
• 3–5 years designing enterprise AI solutions using platforms like Gemini/VertexAI, agent frameworks, RAG pipelines.
• 5–7 years designing ingestion frameworks, APIs, semantic search, data normalization and access controls.
• 8+ years in AI/ML engineering with architectural/leadership responsibilities.
• Hands-on with ML/DL frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn.
• Proven track record deploying production‑grade AI/ML systems at scale.
• Expertise in data engineering and large dataset pipelines.
• Experience with NLP, deep learning and generative AI techniques.
• Strong Python skills and familiarity with the AI ecosystem.
• Experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Solid understanding of MLOps, CI/CD, model monitoring and versioning.
• Excellent problem‑solving and architectural design capability.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end AI architecture across multiple domains, data flows and model lifecycles.
• Design reusable AI/ML solution blueprints for ingestion, feature stores, training, deployment.
• Establish standardised MLOps frameworks and reference implementations.
• Partner with product and business leaders to identify AI opportunities and shape options.
• Define governance for model approval, explainability, versioning and drift monitoring.
• Integrate cloud services into cohesive, scalable AI platforms.
• Collaborate with security and compliance to ensure resilience and cost optimisation.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring across AI teams.
• Create and maintain architectural artefacts, diagrams, standards and docs.

Skills

AI architecture

LLMs & agentic AI

MLOps

Python

Cloud platforms

Data pipelines

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Scikit-learn

MLflow

Kubeflow

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Mane Consulting seeks an AI architecture leader to shape enterprise AI strategy across a national-scale organisation. You will own end-to-end AI architectures, define governance, and drive scalable, compliant platforms that deliver meaningful societal impact.

You will mentor AI/ML and data engineering teams, partner with product and business leaders to identify opportunities, and establish reusable blueprints spanning ingestion, model lifecycles and deployment.