Job Description

Program Context & Team

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- Division: CIO Division
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- 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.
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- Organizational Mission: Drives sustainable growth, innovation, and productivity across Australian industries through enterprise technology and policy delivery.
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Key Duties & Responsibilities

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- 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.
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- SDLC & AI Practices: Establish modern engineering standards including AI-enabled SDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, platform engineering, and automated testing.
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- Modernization & Adoption: Drive system integration, containerization, microservices enhancements, and reusable design patterns to improve resilience and scalability.
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- Capability Building: Uplift team maturity and foster engineering excellence through knowledge transfer, governance, and technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
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Essential Criteria

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- Microservices Architecture: Extensive experience designing, implementing, and governing cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architectures in complex enterprise environments.
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- AI Solution Delivery: Demonstrated expertise in AI engineering, including semantic search,



machine learning solutions, responsible AI practices, and enterprise deployment.
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- Software & Platform Engineering: Strong technical foundation in contemporary frameworks, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and security-by-design.
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- Technology Modernization: Proven track record leading enterprise transformation initiatives, influencing architectural decisions, and delivering measurable performance improvements.
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- Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership: Exceptional communication and leadership capabilities, with proven experience collaborating with delivery partners, multidisciplinary teams, and senior executives.
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Desirable Criteria

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- Container Platforms: Hands-on experience designing and operating container platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS, EKS, or GKE), including platform automation and workload management.
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- SRE & Cloud Modernization: Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, enterprise-scale automation, and observability tools.
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- Agile & Team Coaching: Experience leading Agile delivery, coaching geographically dispersed teams, and driving capability uplift across an organization.
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Desired Skills and Experience

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- Essential Criteria
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- Microservices Architecture
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- AI Solution Delivery
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- Software & Platform Engineering
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- Technology Modernization
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- Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership
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- Desirable Criteria
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- Container Platforms
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- SRE & Cloud Modernization
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- Agile & Team Coaching
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📌 Lead Technical Architect - Microservices & AI (Canberra)
🏢 Mane Consulting
📍 Canberra