Principal AI Solutions Architect 220,000-260,000 Super Sydney Hybrid
Company
Take ownership of the technical direction behind enterprise AI solutions with a technology business delivering customer projects. You’ll lead experienced engineers, shape architecture decisions and guide AI and agentic applications from initial design through production delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead solution architecture and technical delivery across multiple AI projects, turning complex customer requirements into reliable production applications.
- Guide AI solution leads, software engineers, and test and automation engineers, building capability through mentoring and technical reviews.
- Evaluate models, agent frameworks, cloud services and privately hosted alternatives to select the right approach for each customer.
- Set engineering standards, evaluation methods and release criteria to support dependable delivery and ongoing operation.
- Lead customer workshops, explain technical trade-offs and manage technical risks, dependencies and estimates.
Experience
Essential:
- Proven experience leading teams that have delivered and supported enterprise AI applications in production.
- Strong understanding of AI application architecture, agent workflows, retrieval, tool use, model behaviour and evaluation.
- Solid software and cloud architecture foundations, including the ability to review Python implementations, APIs, integrations and CI/CD pipelines.
- Depth in at least one cloud environment, alongside experience evaluating multiple AI platforms and practical familiarity with open-source frameworks or privately hosted models.
- Confident technical leadership and customer communication, with the judgment to choose where agentic AI adds value and where simpler approaches work best.
Advantageous:
- Experience guiding technical delivery across several projects or programmes.
- A track record of establishing engineering standards and developing technical leaders.
Salary
A220,000-260,000 base superannuation, depending on experience.
You’ll also benefit from hybrid working, ownership of key architecture decisions and the opportunity to shape engineering practices across enterprise AI projects.
Location
Sydney, New South Wales - hybrid working.
Keywords
Principal AI Solutions Architect, AI Architect, Principal Architect, Solutions Architect, AI Technical Lead, AI Engineering Lead, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, GenAI, Agentic AI, AI Agents, Large Language Models, LLM, Retrieval, RAG, Python, APIs, Cloud Architecture, Open Source, Self-Hosted Models, Model Evaluation, CI/CD, Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, Enterprise AI, Sydney, New South Wales, NSW, Australia, Hybrid.
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