Principal / Lead Consultant – Intelligent Data

Arinco is the Artificial Intelligence Company helping organisations become AI-first. As a specialist Microsoft partner across Australia and New Zealand, and Microsoft’s Australia Partner of the Year 2024, we combine Microsoft innovation, award-winning delivery and our Done Right™ frameworks to take customers from secure cloud and data platforms to production-ready copilots, agents and AI apps. Since 2019, we’ve partnered with more than 200 organisations across government, financial services, healthcare, retail, utilities and more.

Who are you and what you’ll do

As a Principal / Lead Consultant within our Intelligent Data Practice at Arinco you’ll play a key role in the design and delivery of end-to-end Azure data solutions. You’ll lead customer engagements across data platform build, migration and modernisation, and bring particular depth in helping customers establish and mature their data governance capabilities using Microsoft Purview. You’ll actively use AI and agentic tooling to accelerate delivery and improve customer outcomes, and contribute to our internal engineering culture through your involvement in developing new offerings, IP and knowledge sharing.

Our ideal person will have

•      Experience leading high-level customer engagements in data platform design, delivery and advisory

•      Pre-sales exposure with the ability to support local Account Executives in scoping and shaping data engagements

•      Strong proficiency in designing and delivering data platforms using Microsoft Fabric or Azure Databricks, with hands-on experience in data ingestion, transformation and analytics pipelines. Including fluency in Python for building and maintaining scalable and reusable ETL/ELT processes

•      Proven experience in data engineering best practices, including performance optimisation, cost management and robust security across Azure data services

•      Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Purview for Data Governance, including Data Map configuration, metadata scanning, classification, data quality and Unified Catalog curation. This includes establishing or improveing data governance capabilities, including governance operating models, data ownership, stewardship and policy frameworks

•      Demonstrable use of AI and agentic tooling to enhance project delivery and customer outcomes, such as agentic spec-driven development, AI-assisted code generation or AI-augmented analysis workflows

In addition, the following is highly desirable

•      Familiarity with Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights, sensitivity labelling and integration with Microsoft 365 compliance capabilities

•      Exposure to regulatory and compliance frameworks relevant to Australian industries (e.g. CPS 234, APRA, Privacy Act)

 As a customer-led business you will also need to be present on customer site when required.

Life at Arinco

Our crew is the heart of Arinco. We’re a curious, creative and passionate team helping organisations across Australia and New Zealand unlock what’s next with AI. We value people who think differently, ask better questions and care deeply about the impact of their work — for customers, our crew and the wider community.

Benefits and ways of working

•      An inclusive, people-first culture where you can bring your authentic self

•      Strong focus on learning and growth including training, certifications, lunch & learns and knowledge sharing

•      Regular team events, social connection and community initiatives

•      $2,500 annual allowance to choose the tech and home office setup that works best for you

Please note

•      We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all applications, particularly those from underrepresented groups

•      At this stage, we are only able to consider candidates with unrestricted local working rights

•      We don’t require the assistance of recruitment agencies