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About the Role

As a Principal Architect, you will provide strategic technology leadership across complex customer environments, shaping the future direction of cloud, AI, and digital platforms. You will define enterprise architecture strategy, establish standards and governance, and ensure solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and commercially successful. This role requires executive-level advisory capability combined with deep technical expertise in Azure, AI platforms, and modern architecture practices.

Responsibilities

Define enterprise cloud, AI, and platform strategies aligned to customer business objectives.
Lead architecture across large-scale transformation programs, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and commercially sound.
Establish Azure reference architectures, platform standards, governance frameworks, and best-practice patterns.
Guide the design and implementation of agentic platforms, AI-enabled business workflows, and emerging AI technologies.
Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve business outcomes, productivity, and innovation.
Provide architecture assurance across cloud, security, networking, data, application, and AI domains.
Establish architectural standards that ensure solutions can be successfully delivered, operated, maintained, and evolved over time.
Support executive stakeholders through strategic advisory engagements, technology roadmaps, and investment planning.
Contribute to thought leadership, architecture communities, innovation initiatives, and reusable intellectual property.

Requirements

Extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture, Principal Architecture, or senior technology leadership roles.
Proven experience developing and governing enterprise technology strategies across cloud, infrastructure, security, networking, applications, and data platforms.
Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure and modern cloud architecture practices, including governance, landing zones, identity, security, automation, and operating models.
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise AI initiatives and AI platform adoption within large and complex organizations.
Strong knowledge of Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, large language models, and modern AI architecture patterns.
Experience designing enterprise AI solutions using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector search, and AI orchestration patterns.
Experience establishing AI governance frameworks, responsible AI controls, model lifecycle strategies, and enterprise AI operating models.
Experience designing or overseeing agentic solutions, AI-enabled automation platforms, and intelligent business workflows.
Strong understanding of cloud and AI security, resilience, observability, compliance, and risk management.
Proven ability to establish architecture standards, governance frameworks, reference architectures, and strategic technology roadmaps.
Experience leading architects and multidisciplinary teams across complex programs and transformation initiatives.
Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior executives, technical leaders, and delivery teams.
A passion for emerging technologies and the ability to translate innovation into business value.
Experience establishing enterprise AI Centres of Excellence or AI governance functions.
Experience with multi-cloud architecture and hybrid cloud operating models.
Experience with Kubernetes, platform engineering, and modern cloud-native platforms.
Experience with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Copilot, and AI-assisted software development practices.
Knowledge of FinOps, AI cost management, and cloud financial governance.
Experience contributing to industry standards, technical communities, advisory boards, or thought leadership initiatives.

Skills

Cloud Architecture
AI Platforms
Digital Platforms
Enterprise Architecture
Microsoft Azure
Azure AI Foundry
Azure OpenAI
Azure AI Search
Large Language Models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Vector Search
AI Orchestration
Agentic Solutions
AI-Enabled Automation
Cloud Security
AI Security
Resilience
Observability
Compliance
Risk Management
Governance Frameworks
Reference Architectures
Technology Roadmaps
Multi-cloud Architecture
Hybrid Cloud
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Cloud-Native Platforms
GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Copilot
AI-Assisted Software Development
FinOps
AI Cost Management
Cloud Financial Governance
Thought Leadership

Location

Australia
New Zealand

Work Type

Remote Working
Flexi-hours

Experience Level

Principal Architect
Senior Technology Leadership

Education Level

Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification
Azure AI Engineer Associate certification
Azure Security Engineer Associate certification
TOGAF certification
Relevant degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

Social events
Chill-out spaces
Remote working
Flexi-hours
Professional development courses

About the Company

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services.
We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size.
It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.
We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work.
You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.
Our digital team is very flexible around how we work and fitting work around non-negotiable other commitments is important to us, including when we choose to come to the office.
We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.