AI Strategy Advisory Consultant

Job description

We are seeking an exceptionally skilled AI & Integration Platform Architect to join our Sydney practice. In this role, you will sit at the critical intersection of advanced AI strategy and enterprise-grade platform architecture, bridging the gap between high-level business vision and resilient technical execution. This is not a high-level conceptual role; you will actively define and evolve the concrete architecture for our core platforms, with a laser focus on platform design, system integration, and complex data flows. You will partner with engineering teams, data specialists, and senior business stakeholders to design scalable, secure, and reusable integration patterns that support next-generation digital and GenAI capabilities. Key Responsibilities Architectural Evolution: Define, design, and evolve the architecture for enterprise platforms, ensuring all solutions are scalable, secure, and highly reusable. Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with engineering, data teams, and business stakeholders to establish robust integration patterns that drive enterprise digital capabilities. Delivery Governance: Guide delivery teams and ensure all architectural decisions align perfectly with the client's overarching technology, data, and risk frameworks. Design & Pattern Ownership: Architect end-to-end solutions combining strong software engineering practices with API design, microservices, and event-driven architectures. AI Platform Foundations: Lead the architectural design for AI engineering and AI platform development, embedding modern guardrails, resilience, and cost optimisation into cloud-native environments. Core Architectural Experience: Regulated Environments: Proven track record working as a Solution or Platform Architect within complex, large-scale, or highly regulated enterprise environments. Cloud-Native & Containers: Deep experience designing solutions on Kubernetes-based platforms with a strong mastery of container orchestration and cloud-native design (specifically on AWS ). Integration & Data Mastery: Extensive experience designing and governing integration-focused solutions across APIs, event-driven systems, and batch/streaming data patterns. Data Architecture Lifecycle: A solid understanding of data integration principles, including data ingestion, transformation, consumption, and data lineage. AI Engineering Exposure: Direct experience working on AI engineering or AI platform development within a large-scale enterprise setting. Methodology & Frameworks: Architecture Principles: Deep understanding of non-functional requirements (NFRs), security-by-design, resilience, and practical technical governance. Consulting Edge: Ability to act as a trusted advisor, translating complex AI and data flows into clear, actionable architectural roadmaps for C-suite stakeholders and engineering squads alike. Why join us: NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth. NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community. At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. Agencies: We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given. Work rights and background checks: To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together. We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow.