AI Architect

AI SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT | Microsoft AI | Fabric | Copilot | Agentic AI
Australia | Permanent or Contract Options

How do you apply AI to real-world operational problems?

Workforce scheduling. Timesheeting. Field services. Asset maintenance. Safety. Compliance. Operational decision-making.

We are partnering with a major Australian organisation operating across complex engineering, infrastructure and field-based environments to identify an experienced AI Solutions Architect.

This is not simply an AI development role.

We are looking for someone who can work directly with functional consultants, operational teams and Subject Matter Experts, understand how the business actually operates, identify where AI can deliver measurable value, and then architect the solution from concept through to production.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The organisation has an established Microsoft technology environment and significant internal functional and operational expertise.

What they need is the AI architecture capability to bring these worlds together.

You will work with SMEs across areas such as Field Services, Asset Management, Maintenance, Workforce Management, Scheduling, Safety and enterprise operations.

Your role will be to understand their processes, problems, data, and decision points, and determine how AI, intelligent agents, automation, and the wider Microsoft technology stack can improve how the organisation operates.

Potential use cases could include:

• Workforce and resource optimisation

• Intelligent scheduling and rostering

• Timesheet automation and validation

• Field Service optimisation

• Predictive and preventative maintenance

• Asset and maintenance intelligence

• Safety and incident analysis

• Compliance and operational risk

• Enterprise knowledge assistants

• AI Agents and role-specific Copilots

• Intelligent document and workflow automation

• Natural-language access to enterprise data

Importantly, you won't be expected to arrive as the Subject Matter Expert across each of these areas.
The business already has those people.

You need to sit with the SME, understand their world, identify what AI can do with it, and architect a secure, scalable enterprise solution.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Lead AI discovery sessions with business, functional and operational stakeholders

• Identify and prioritise enterprise AI opportunities based on value, feasibility, risk and data readiness

• Translate operational requirements into end-to-end AI solution architectures

• Design AI Agent, Copilot, RAG, automation and enterprise knowledge solutions

• Architect solutions across Microsoft AI, Azure and Microsoft Fabric

• Determine when to use Generative AI, agentic AI, predictive AI, automation, analytics or conventional application development

• Define how AI solutions integrate with enterprise applications, APIs and operational systems

• Design solutions utilising both structured and unstructured enterprise data

• Establish reusable AI architecture patterns and reference architectures

• Define AI security, identity, governance and Responsible AI controls

• Design appropriate guardrails and human-in-the-loop controls, particularly across safety-critical processes

• Work with engineering, data, application and security teams to take solutions from discovery and prototype through to production

• Provide technical leadership as AI capability scales across the organisation

TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT

We are interested in experience across technologies and concepts including:

• Microsoft Foundry / Azure AI Foundry

• Azure OpenAI

• Microsoft Copilot Studio

• Microsoft 365 Copilot

• AI Agents / Agentic AI

• Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

• Semantic / Vector Search

• Microsoft Fabric

• OneLake

• Fabric Data Engineering

• Fabric Real-Time Intelligence

• Power BI / Semantic Models

• Azure Functions

• Logic Apps

• API Management

• REST APIs and enterprise integration

• Microsoft Entra ID

• Microsoft Purview

• AI governance and Responsible AI

• AI evaluation, observability and monitoring

Experience integrating with enterprise platforms such as Dynamics 365, SAP, ServiceNow, workforce management, asset management or Field Service platforms would also be highly regarded.

ABOUT YOU

You may currently be working as an:

• AI Solutions Architect

• AI Architect• Data & AI Architect

• Azure AI Architect

• Principal AI Consultant

• Solutions Architect – AI & Data

• Senior AI Engineer moving into Architecture

We are particularly interested in people who combine strong architecture capability with enough hands-on technical knowledge to prototype, validate and challenge solutions.

You should be comfortable moving between an operational workshop and a technical architecture discussion.
You can speak with a Field Services or Safety SME in the morning, understand their business problem, and then work with Data and Engineering teams in the afternoon to determine the architecture required to solve it.

Experience within Infrastructure, Engineering, Rail, Transport, Utilities, Mining, Resources, Manufacturing, Construction, Asset Management or Field Services would be highly regarded but is not mandatory.

More important is demonstrable experience taking AI beyond the proof-of-concept stage and applying it to genuine enterprise business problems.

WHY CONSIDER THIS ROLE?

This is an opportunity to help shape how AI is actually adopted across a large and complex Australian enterprise.
Rather than inheriting a predefined AI solution, you'll help discover the opportunities.

You'll work directly with the people who understand the business.
You'll determine where AI genuinely adds value.
You'll architect how it connects to enterprise data and applications.
And you'll help establish the architecture, governance and guardrails required to take AI from experimentation into production.

If you're working at the intersection of Microsoft AI, Data, Enterprise Architecture and real-world business operations, we'd like to hear from you.

Permanent and contract engagement options are being considered.

Apply now or contact saas nine for a confidential discussion.