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Lead Cloud and AI Architect

JobtailorCanberra, Australian Capital Territory🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 3 Sept 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Microservices

Job Description

  • Provide technical leadership for cloud and AI architecture.
  • Influence system builds and engineering decisions.
  • Guide adoption of AI across the service delivery lifecycle.
  • Ensure capability transfer occurs throughout delivery.
  • Design, implement and govern cloud-native, microservices and event-driven architectures.
  • Lead enterprise technology modernisation and transformation initiatives.
  • Provide technical direction and influence architecture decisions.
  • Deliver measurable improvements in platform reliability, security, scalability and engineering maturity.
Requirements
  • Strong software engineering and platform engineering capability, including modern development frameworks, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security by design and operational excellence.
  • Extensive experience designing, implementing and governing cloud native, microservices and event driven architectures within complex enterprise environments.
  • Experience delivering scalable, resilient and secure business critical platforms.
  • Ability to lead enterprise technology modernisation and transformation initiatives, providing technical direction, influencing architecture decisions and delivering measurable improvements in platform reliability, security, scalability and engineering maturity.
  • Experience with cloud platform modernisation, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, observability tooling and enterprise scale automation practices is highly desirable.
  • Must have minimum Baseline clearance.
  • CV must be uploaded to be considered.
Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in cloud-native architecture, microservices, and event-driven systems, with a strong focus on platform reliability, security, and scalability. Proven ability to lead technology modernization initiatives and influence architectural decisions in complex enterprise environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords
  • Cloud-Native Architecture
  • Microservices Design
  • DevSecOps
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Platform Engineering
Hard Skills
  • Software Engineering
  • Platform Engineering
  • CI/CD
  • Automated Testing
  • Observability
  • Security By Design
  • Operational Excellence
  • Enterprise Scale Automation
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • Technical Leadership
Certifications & Qualifications
  • Baseline Clearance
Industry Keywords
  • Cloud Platform Modernisation
  • Technology Transformation
  • System Builds
  • Engineering Decisions
  • Capability Transfer

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