AI Solution Engineer

Job Description

Nihilent Australia Pty Ltd.

Title of the Role:

AI Solution Designer

Description of the Role

• Lead the design, architecture, governance, and architecture assurance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data, and Automation solutions across enterprise technology environments.
  • Provide specialist architecture, design, and governance expertise to ensure AI solutions are secure, supportable, scalable, and aligned with approved architecture principles, technology standards, and governance frameworks.
  • Translate business opportunities into build-ready solution designs and work with stakeholders, delivery teams, architects, Cyber Security, technology teams, and implementation partners to support architecture, security, and governance approval processes.

Key Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts and design documentation, including business capability mapping, conceptual architectures, High-Level Solution Designs (HLSDs), Detailed Solution Designs (SDDs), integration designs, and operational support models.
  • Define technical solution patterns, secure integration patterns, reference architectures, engineering patterns, DevOps patterns, AI platform standards, and reusable architecture accelerators.
  • Prepare and support Design Review Forum, Architecture Review Board, security assessment, risk and control assessment, and other architecture governance submissions.
  • Design AI platform solutions across Azure AI services, AI on-premises capabilities, agent platforms, Copilot Studio, generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Dataverse, Power Platform, and related technologies.
  • Design cloud, infrastructure, networking, identity and access, security control, data protection, integration, and operational support considerations for enterprise AI solutions.
  • Identify infrastructure dependencies, design risks, and recommended security controls, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, and governance requirements.
  • Facilitate architecture workshops, engage business stakeholders, and work with Cyber Security, Architecture, infrastructure, and delivery teams to support solution design decisions.

Skill & Experience

Specific Skills, Qualifications, and Experience required for the Position

• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
  • Demonstrated Solution Architecture or Senior Technical Design experience within large enterprise environments.
  • Experience operating within mature architecture governance frameworks and preparing architecture artefacts and governance submissions.
  • Experience presenting solutions to Architecture Review Boards, Design Review Forums, and Cyber Security governance forums, with the ability to produce build-ready solution designs.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise cloud technologies, particularly Microsoft Azure, including identity and access management, networking, cloud security controls, integration architectures, platform governance, and operational support models.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, pull request governance, DevSecOps controls, and software engineering governance.
  • Strong understanding of networking and security principles, with experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure dependencies, security control mapping, data protection architecture, and operational support design.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills, with the ability to communicate technical architecture and design decisions to business and technology stakeholders.