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Data and AI Architect

Halcyon KnightsMelbourne, Victoria🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 8 Oct 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Machine LearningGenerative AILLM

Job Description

Enterprise platform strategy and readiness

  • Experienced Data & AI Architect with a track record of designing and delivering enterprise-scale data, machine learning, generative AI and agentic-AI solutions.

  • Assesses enterprise platform readiness across the full data and AI landscape, including data foundations, ML and LLM services, enterprise knowledge, integration, AI controls, user experience, runtime orchestration and platform engineering.

  • Identifies platform gaps, constraints and technical risks; develops practical, prioritised recommendations to strengthen the client's data and AI platform.


Solution architecture and design

  • Defines end-to-end solution architectures for specific data, ML and AI use cases, balancing functional needs with the client's existing technology environment, architecture standards, security requirements and delivery constraints.

  • Designs reusable patterns for data access, retrieval and knowledge grounding, model and agent execution, enterprise integration, identity and access controls, observability, evaluation, resilience and operational support.

  • Works closely with client enterprise architects, platform teams, security and risk stakeholders, product owners and delivery teams to align solution designs with target-state architecture and roadmaps.


Delivery and engineering leadership

  • Understands the client's engineering practices, delivery lifecycle and maturity; guides teams to adopt appropriate development, testing, release, documentation, operational-readiness and governance practices.

  • Provides hands on technical leadership throughout delivery, including architecture decisions, design assurance, technical troubleshooting, and transition of solutions into production support.

  • Communicates complex technical choices clearly to both senior business stakeholders and engineering teams, articulating trade-offs, dependencies, risks and recommended decisions.

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