Program Context & Team
Division:
CIO Division
The Project:
Supporting a major business application transformation program to establish Department's first enterprise Microservices and Event-Driven Architecture foundations while embedding AI-enabled engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle.
Organizational Mission:
Drives sustainable growth, innovation, and productivity across Australian industries through enterprise technology and policy delivery.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Technical & Architectural Leadership:
Serve as the architectural authority for designing, governing, and evolving cloud-native, microservices-based, and AI-enabled platforms aligned with security and business goals.
SDLC & AI Practices:
Establish modern engineering standards including AI-enabled SDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, platform engineering, and automated testing.
Modernization & Adoption:
Drive system integration, containerization, microservices enhancements, and reusable design patterns to improve resilience and scalability.
Capability Building:
Uplift team maturity and foster engineering excellence through knowledge transfer, governance, and technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
Essential Criteria
Microservices Architecture:
Extensive experience designing, implementing, and governing cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architectures in complex enterprise environments.
AI Solution Delivery:
Demonstrated expertise in AI engineering, including semantic search,



machine learning solutions, responsible AI practices, and enterprise deployment.
Software & Platform Engineering:
Strong technical foundation in contemporary frameworks, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and security-by-design.
Technology Modernization:
Proven track record leading enterprise transformation initiatives, influencing architectural decisions, and delivering measurable performance improvements.
Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership:
Exceptional communication and leadership capabilities, with proven experience collaborating with delivery partners, multidisciplinary teams, and senior executives.
Desirable Criteria
Container Platforms:
Hands-on experience designing and operating container platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS, EKS, or GKE), including platform automation and workload management.
SRE & Cloud Modernization:
Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, enterprise-scale automation, and observability tools.
Agile & Team Coaching:
Experience leading Agile delivery, coaching geographically dispersed teams, and driving capability uplift across an organization.
Desired Skills and Experience
Essential Criteria
Microservices Architecture
AI Solution Delivery
Software & Platform Engineering
Technology Modernization
Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership
Desirable Criteria
Container Platforms
SRE & Cloud Modernization
Agile & Team Coaching
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📌 Lead Technical Architect - Microservices & Ai (Canberra)
🏢 Mane Consulting
📍 Canberra