Engineering Director · Sydney, Australia

Nick Airey

Cloud infrastructure. Application modernisation.
AI-powered delivery at enterprise scale.

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Nick Airey
Director, Cloud Engineering Deloitte Australia Sep 2018 – Present
Background

Electrical engineer by training, technologist by vocation. Three decades spanning embedded systems, software architecture, cloud infrastructure, and now AI-augmented delivery — always with an eye on what's next and how to deliver it.

Specialisation

Large-scale cloud migrations. Domain-driven architecture. Application modernisation. Building and leading high-performance engineering teams. Lately: everything AI — from developer tooling to agentic architectures.

Profile
Languages
English (native) · German (proficient)
Citizenship
Australian Citizen
Work Rights
Right of abode, UK
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Experience

Sep 2018 – Present Deloitte Australia

Engineering Director, Cloud Engineering

Director of Deloitte Engineering. Responsible for engineering leadership, large scale project design and delivery, specialising in application modernisation, cloud infrastructure and AI-accelerated outcomes.

Deloitte Engineering has 50k+ engineering professionals across 35 countries.

Selected Projects at Deloitte
2025 Q2–Q4
Top 5 Australian Bank

AI Capability Introduction

  • Led blended (Deloitte/client) team on building AI capability into key development streams
  • AI-driven application modernisation of core Java applications using Amazon Q Developer Transform, AWS Bedrock, and AWS AgentCore
AWS BedrockAmazon QAgentCoreAI
2025 Q1
Multinational Biotech Firm

Infrastructure Design

  • Participated in multi-disciplinary group to evaluate infrastructure (cloud and networking) design for regulatory compliance in a key market
CloudNetworkingCompliance
2024
Top 5 Australian Bank

Technical Leadership · Application Modernisation · Service Decomposition

  • Led blended (Deloitte/client) team on infrastructure modernisation and application microservice decomposition
  • Software and infrastructure development, identity management best practice, loosely coupled systems
MicroservicesIdentityInfrastructure
Jan 2021 – Jun 2023
Multinational Biotech Firm

Technical Leadership · Cloud Solution Architecture · Infrastructure Design

  • Lead blended (Deloitte/client) team on domain-driven decomposition and rebuild of monolithic software architecture of core systems
  • Designed multi-region AWS cloud infrastructure and networking to enable infrastructure-enforced data regionalisation and regional administration
  • Designed associated operational model and DevOps strategy
AWS Multi-regionDomain-driven designDevOps
Jan 2022 – Jul 2022
Major Australian Bank

Technical Leadership · Systems Migration and Modernisation

  • Led team to migrate critical systems acquired as part of a business purchase into the bank
  • Lead system modernisation to redesign and adapt systems for AWS cloud hosting, including migration to native cloud services and integration with internal systems
AWSMigrationIntegration
Jul 2020 – Dec 2020
Australian Government · Services Australia

Technical Leadership · API Design and Delivery

  • Led team to design and deliver critical public-facing REST APIs for public interaction with government
  • Part of the larger myGov initiative
REST APIGovernmentmyGov
Jan 2019 – Dec 2019
Major Media / Publishing House

Technical Leadership · Systems and Data Migration

  • Discovered, analysed and delivered a cloud migration to AWS including a full data centre exit, without business disruption
  • Migration scope of 130+ applications, 350+ workloads, and petabyte-scale data — delivered ahead of schedule and under budget
AWSData Centre Exit130+ AppsPetabyte-scale
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Credentials

Education

1992
B.E. Electrical Engineering (Honors II.I)
University of Sydney, Australia
Major project in biomedical devices and embedded neural networks
1990
B.Sc. Bachelor of Science
University of Sydney, Australia
Double major: Computer Science, Pure Mathematics
1986
NSW High School Certificate (HSC)
Sydney Grammar School, Australia
Top 1% of students in NSW

Certifications & Associations

1992 – Present
M. IE Aust.
Engineers Australia
Member of Engineers Australia, the peak body for the engineering profession in Australia
Current
AWS Certified
Amazon Web Services
  • Solution Architect Professional
  • Security Specialty
  • ML Specialty
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Community

Pro-Bono

Narwee Baptist Church

Sydney, New South Wales

One of the largest Baptist Churches in Australia — 1,200 attendees, 200 volunteers, 9 staff. Diaconate (board) member; infrastructure and software design and development. IT policy development.

Advisory

Oatley Public School

Sydney, New South Wales

State primary school in Sydney's southern suburbs. IT consulting generally and for the student technology interest group. Former president and long-term member of the school Advisory Group.