An APRA-regulated financial services group is appointing a Director to own its AI reference architectures and standards across models, agents, APIs, orchestration, integration and security. You lead platform, tooling and vendor assessments, align the AI, data and cloud platforms, and set the target state the engineering teams build to. Hands-on Azure AI and Databricks, with cloud-native design on Azure and AWS.
What you bring, both evidenced with dates
- Full-time AI work since 2023. Every role from January 2023 onward is an AI role: AI or generative AI architecture, AI platform, ML engineering. A cloud or data architect who added AI in 2025 does not meet this line.
- Several years of Azure architecture. Three or more years designing on Azure (Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, Databricks on Azure, AKS, Fabric or Synapse), dated by role. AWS-first with Azure in a skills list does not meet this line.
- Enterprise reference architectures and target-state blueprints you authored.
- Platform and vendor assessment: Foundry, agent platforms, model providers, AI SaaS, RFPs.
- Regulated financial services is an advantage, not a gate. Sydney, hybrid. Full Australian work rights.
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Package is Director-level and confirmed on application. To apply, send your CV with the AI-since date and the Azure years stated on the first page.