About the Role
Services Australia is seeking Senior Solution Architects with demonstrable experience in AI platforms to play a pivotal role in delivering complex application development projects on public cloud platforms. This role focuses on building secure-by-design architectures, incorporating reusable patterns and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deliver scalable, compliant cloud solutions.
Responsibilities
- Identify the appropriate end-to-end solution portfolio, considering all relevant ICT solutions and service offerings such as best practices.
- Identify solution gaps and develop gap closure options such as the inclusion of components from Independent Software Vendors or customer-specific development.
- Architect the end-to-end functional landscape and solution design to support desired business processes and business/ICT requirements of the customer, ensuring alignment.
- Design robust and reusable technical solutions to support the deployment of greenfield and brownfield cloud platforms in either Azure or AWS.
- Design, build and maintain secure, scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI services.
- Lead the implementation, configuration and optimisation of enterprise AI platforms, ensuring performance, resilience and operational excellence.
- Provide technical guidance, documentation, and training to teams on best practices for both Azure and AWS environments.
- Document, present and discuss the end-to-end solution options, recommendations and implications, facilitate and support the decision process.
- Identify cross-process and cross-solution integration points and lead the coordination across various software and service components of the end-to-end solution.
- Lead end-to-end solution analysis, design, integration, architecture, co-existence and migration.
- Ensure AI platforms comply with organisational security, governance and regulatory requirements through the application of DevSecOps and secure-by-design principles.
- Ensure work aligns with business processes and overall delivery outcomes.
- Act as a single point of contact to orchestrate the various parties involved in large and complex projects/programs from a primarily technical perspective.
- Drive innovation, continuous improvement and manage and lead change.
- Proactively share knowledge and expertise as the subject matter expert.
- Oversee and prepare a range of documentation and reports.
- Collaborate with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to achieve project outcomes.
- Resolve very complex, sensitive and/or escalated technical issues.
Requirements
- Must be able to obtain Baseline security clearance.
- Experience in governance and security: Implementing policies, guardrails, RBAC/IAM, and tools like AWS Security Hub or Azure Security Center.
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline), and scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
- Experience with the migration and deployment of cloud-based AI workloads including architecture, data migration, model deployment and platform integration.
- Business process improvement: Level 6 (SFIA)
- Consultancy: Level 6 (SFIA)
- Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA)
- Enterprise and business architecture: Level 5 (SFIA)
- Innovation: Level 6 (SFIA)
- Software design: Level 5 (SFIA)
- Solution architecture: Level 5 (SFIA)
- Stakeholder relationship management: Level 6 (SFIA)
- Systems design: Level 6 (SFIA)
Skills
- AI platforms
- Public Cloud Services
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud-based AI workload migrations and deployment
- Greenfield implementations
- Brownfield enhancements
- Secure-by-design architectures
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Scalable, compliant cloud solutions
- Networking
- Resource management
- DevOps practices
- CI/CD pipelines
- Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash)
- Governance and security
- RBAC/IAM
- AWS Security Hub
- Azure Security Center
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Generative AI services
Location
- NSW
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Contract
Experience Level
- Senior
- Expert
Salary/Compensations
- $140 - $160 per hour (inc. super)
About the Company
- Services Australia is at the frontline of government service delivery, supporting millions of Australians, and is front and centre of a vision to be a world leader in government service delivery.
- It’s using cutting-edge technology to build world class platforms and capabilities to help Australians get on with their lives.
