Head of Artificial Intelligence | Agentic AI, Enterprise Architecture & Governance | Brisbane-based
A deeply experienced and production-proven Head of Artificial Intelligence who brings an exceptional combination of cutting-edge AI delivery and 25 years of enterprise architecture across some of Australia's most complex and regulated industries — insurance, banking, travel, and utilities. This is not a candidate who theorises about AI transformation; they have built it, shipped it, and embedded it across an entire organisation.
With 18 months of intensive, hands-on agentic AI development to complement a career-long foundation in enterprise architecture, this candidate brings both the technical depth to lead AI engineering teams and the organisational credibility to drive enterprise-wide AI adoption at scale — including governance frameworks, risk assessment, and upskilling 130+ staff.
Key Strengths & Experience:
- Agentic AI Development & Delivery: 18 months of dedicated, hands-on experience building and shipping agentic AI solutions into production — with real deployments, not prototypes, running in enterprise Kubernetes environments (EKS)
- Deep Technical Stack: Production-deployed expertise across AWS Bedrock, LangGraph, Pydantic AI, Neo4j, and RAG architectures — a sophisticated, modern AI stack built through delivery experience, not classroom learning
- Enterprise Architecture Foundations: 25 years of architecture experience across insurance, banking, travel, and utilities, providing the systems thinking, stakeholder credibility, and domain depth to design AI solutions that integrate cleanly with complex enterprise environments
- Enterprise-Wide AI Adoption: Proven track record leading organisation-wide AI uptake — developing governance frameworks, conducting risk assessments, and delivering training to 130+ staff, bridging the gap between technical capability and organisational readiness
- Governance & Risk: Experienced navigating the compliance, risk, and governance requirements that come with deploying AI in regulated industries — bringing the rigour and accountability that enterprise AI demands
A Brisbane-based AI leader of genuine distinction — immediately available and negotiable from $230k. An outstanding fit for organisations ready to move beyond AI experimentation and invest in a leader who can build, govern, and scale the real thing.
Additional Information:
- Permanent opportunity
- Salary expectation: Negotiable from $230k + super
- Brisbane-based
- Australian Citizen
Want to meet this candidate? Contact Jason Pretorius on 02 9220 3400 / 0499 141 822 or email
jasonp@coxpurtell.com.au
