Principal AI Solutions Architect

Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; hybrid working.

Salary: A$220,000–A$260,000 base plus superannuation, depending on experience.

Company

hirify.global specialises in Microsoft Technology, Web, Mobile and Software Development recruitment across the globe.

What you will do

• Lead solution architecture and technical delivery across multiple enterprise AI projects, turning complex customer requirements into reliable production applications.
• Guide AI solution leads, software engineers, and test and automation engineers through mentoring and technical reviews.
• Evaluate models, agent frameworks, cloud services, and privately hosted alternatives for customer solutions.
• Set engineering standards, evaluation methods, and release criteria for dependable delivery and ongoing operation.
• Lead customer workshops, explain technical trade-offs, and manage technical risks, dependencies, and estimates.

Requirements

• 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, 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.

Nice to have

• Experience guiding technical delivery across several projects or programmes.
• A track record of establishing engineering standards and developing technical leaders.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working in Sydney, New South Wales.
• Ownership of key architecture decisions across enterprise AI projects.
• Opportunity to shape engineering practices and develop technical leadership capability.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV and a brief example of an AI initiative led.
• Describe the team, technical decisions owned, solution evaluation, and post-delivery results; sanitised examples are welcome.