- Canberra - Hybrid
- 12months contract + 2x12months extension options
- Baseline clearance preferred
Our client, a federal government agency, is seeking an experienced Lead Microservices and AI Technical Architect to spearhead the design, governance, and evolution of cloud native, microservices-based, and AI-enabled platforms. This role will provide technical leadership and guide the adoption of AI across the service delivery lifecycle, ensuring capability transfer across projects.
- Provide architectural authority for the design and governance of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud native microservices and AI platforms.
- Lead the implementation of modern engineering and AI delivery practices, including DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability to enhance service reliability.
- Drive technology modernisation initiatives focusing on microservices enhancements, containerisation, and integration of enterprise systems.
- Build organisational capabilities through knowledge transfer and leadership of multidisciplinary teams fostering continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
The role supports a business application transformation program that establishes the agency’s first enterprise Microservices and Event-driven Architecture foundations while embedding AI-enabled engineering practices.
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience designing, implementing and governing cloud native, microservices and event driven architectures within complex enterprise environments, delivering scalable, resilient and secure business critical platforms.
- Demonstrated expertise in AI engineering and AI enabled solution delivery, including the development, deployment and operationalisation of enterprise AI capabilities, semantic search, machine learning solutions and responsible AI practices.
- Strong software engineering and platform engineering capability, including modern development frameworks, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security by design and operational excellence.
- Proven 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.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication and leadership skills, with demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams, delivery partners and senior executives and translating complex business requirements into practical technology outcomes.
Desirable criteria
- Experience designing, implementing and operating container platforms using technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS, EKS or GKE, including platform automation, governance and workload management.
- Experience with cloud platform modernisation, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, observability tooling and enterprise scale automation practices.
- Experience leading delivery within Agile environments, including coaching geographically dispersed teams, driving capability uplift and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.
Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.
For more information about this or other opportunities, please contact Mariam Nguyen. Please quote our job reference number 678167.
About us
NTT Ltd. is a global ICT provider, employing more than 40,000 people in a diverse and dynamic workplace, and delivering services in over 200 countries and regions. We partner with organizations around the world to shape and achieve outcomes through intelligent technology solutions. For us, intelligent means data driven, connected, digital, and secure.
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