Principal Consultant / Engineer

Principal Consultant / Principal Engineer

• Location: Australia (Hybrid / Flexible)
• Type: Full-time
• Level: Principal (10+ years experience)

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Principal Consultant/Principal Engineer to serve as the primary technical authority and trusted advisor for complex, high-impact client engagements within large, regulated organisations.

In this role, you will lead technical strategy and delivery, guide senior stakeholders through complex decisions, and help shape technology direction across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Youll combine deep hands-on expertise with strong consulting skills — building trust with clients while elevating engineering standards internally.

This is a senior, influential role for someone who enjoys owning outcomes, navigating ambiguity, and shaping both technical solutions and delivery practices.

What Youll Be Responsible For

• Acting as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders

• Leading end-to-end delivery: concept design, implementation, Day-2 operations

• Designing and delivering secure, scalable, cloud-native and distributed systems

• Applying DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE principles to complex delivery environments

• Guiding teams through complex technical challenges, including deep root cause analysis

• Facilitating blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement

• Managing stakeholder expectations, risks, scope, and dependencies

• Mentoring and coaching senior and mid-level engineers and consultants

• Supporting pre-sales and solution design, including PoCs and technical proposals

• Identifying follow-on and net-new opportunities within existing client engagements

• Shaping internal engineering standards, delivery practices, and capabilities

• Contributing to practice development and representing the organisation internally and externally

What Were Looking For

Youre a senior technologist with strong consulting instincts and the confidence to lead in complex environments.

You bring:

• 10+ years of experience across software engineering, architecture, and operations

• Deep experience delivering multi-cloud and hybrid solutions at enterprise scale

• Strong hands-on background with cloud-native and distributed systems

• Proven application of DevOps / DevSecOps / SRE practices

• Experience designing data-centric and event-driven architectures

• Ability to translate complex business needs into practical, high-quality technical solutions

• Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills

• Calm, pragmatic leadership style — especially under pressure or ambiguity

• Strong analytical, root-cause analysis, and structured thinking skills

• Passion for continuous learning and emerging technologies

Bonus experience:

• MLOps and AI-enabled systems (e.g. RAG, agent frameworks, guardrails)

• Public speaking, internal enablement, or conference presentations

Qualifications (Nice to Have)

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar

• Vendor certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP, Red Hat, IBM, etc.)

How Success Is Measured

Youll be successful if you:

• Deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions that create long-term client value

• Are recognised as a trusted advisor by clients and delivery teams

• Lead high-quality outcomes while balancing risk, value, and commercial impact

• Strengthen internal practices, standards, and technical capability

• Uphold strong delivery governance and quality controls

• Receive consistently strong feedback from clients and peers

Why Join?

• Work on high-impact, complex client challenges

• Operate at the intersection of technology, strategy, and delivery

• Influence architecture, standards, and engineering culture

• Collaborate with competent engineers and consultants

• Long-term focus on quality, trust, and sustainable outcomes