Some roles ask you to “reimagine the future.”

This one wants you to build it with your hands, your brain, and your influence.

One of Australia’s most established (and quietly innovative) tech companies is making a serious move: doubling down on data and AI to help thousands of their customers grow smarter, faster, and more efficiently.

They need someone who’s played at the pointy end of data architecture and who knows what it means to build customer-facing AI solutions that don’t just work in a lab, but work out in the wild.

What’s On The Table

You’ll be stepping into a Principal Architect role with a wide brief: Own the vision. Drive the roadmap. This isn’t a strategy-only role. It’s hands-on, outcome focused, and influential across the company.

It’s not about writing 60-page strategy docs and hoping someone reads them. This is a hands-on, high-impact leadership role. You’ll be prototyping. You’ll be presenting to execs. You’ll be shaping how this company and its customers extract value from data in the real world.

You’ll also have the rare luxury of joining a business that already has data worth working with, plus a strong appetite for using it to solve real customer problems.

This role is Hybrid (2-3 days in the office) and the salary range is $280,000-$310,000 + Benefits

What You'll Be Trusted With

• Architect scalable, production-grade data and AI systems not just for dashboards, but for real-life customer experiences.
• Co-develop working prototypes that show the business (and its customers) what’s possible.
• Lead the exploration of GenAI, NLP, machine learning with a bias toward shipping, not just studying.
• Translate technical solutions into business outcomes, using stories, demos, and proof.
• Be a thought partner to senior leadership and a trusted voice for technical decision-making.
• Help define how the business uses its data not just as a byproduct, but as a product in itself.

What Makes You a Good Fit

• You’ve shipped AI-powered features that customers actually used and loved.
• You’ve worked with modern data stacks and you know your way around LLMs and ML pipelines.
• You’re not an ivory-tower architect. You care about code, customers, and commercial value in equal measure.
• You’re comfortable in ambiguity and experienced in working cross-functionally to move from idea to MVP.
• You get how to talk about AI with product leaders, marketers, and C-levels without jargon or ego.

Extra Firepower

• You’ve worked in SaaS before, and know what good looks like at scale.
• You’ve built or scaled recommendation engines, personalised UX, or natural language features that sit inside a product.
• You believe the best AI solutions are invisible they just make life easier for the customer.

This is not a place for slow-moving bureaucracy or academic showboating. It’s a business with a clear purpose, huge reach, and a team hungry to experiment.

If you're tired of the hype and want to do meaningful work that lands with real people this might be your moment.

Hit apply or message for a confidential chat. No pitch decks. No fluff. Just the opportunity to do the best work of your career.