Lead Microservices and AI Technical Architect

Location: ACT
Security Clearance: Baseline
Contract Period: 12 months + 2 × 12 month extensions
Closing: 11:59pm Monday 14 September 2026

Current and former ADF personnel encouraged to apply

The Opportunity:

The role will provide technical leadership, influence system builds and engineering decisions, guide the adoption of AI across the service deliver lifecycle and ensure capability transfer occurs throughout delivery. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be required to:

Provide technical leadership and architectural authority for the design, governance and evolution of cloud native, microservices based and AI enabled platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security and business transformation objectives. 

Lead the establishment of modern engineering and AI delivery practices, including AI enabled software development lifecycle (SDLC), DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, automated testing and platform engineering standards that support secure, scalable and reliable service delivery. 

Drive technology modernisation and platform adoption, including microservices enhancement, containerisation, integration of enterprise systems and implementation of reusable patterns that improve scalability, maintainability and operational resilience. 

Build organisational capability and technical maturity through knowledge transfer, engineering governance and leadership of multidisciplinary teams, fostering engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Ready to Learn More?

If you have the skills and experience we're looking for and would like to learn more about this opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.