Lead Principal Analytics Engineer - AI Data Architect

Mantel; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

My Deal program

Mantel AI Gateway access

Flexible Personal Leave

Family Inclusive Workplace

Hybrid working model

Job summary

Mantel is a leading Australian-owned IT Professional Services consultancy focused on AI, cloud, data, and security. As a Principal Analytics Engineer, you will shape Mantel’s data landscape, drive strategic analytics initiatives, and influence at executive levels across client engagements.

You will lead complex data projects, define DataOps standards, and advance AI capabilities while growing commercial opportunities and guiding client demonstrations and proposals.

Qualifications

• Extensive consulting experience influencing leadership at senior levels.
• Strong data stack knowledge: Snowflake, Databricks, dbt.
• Hands-on expertise with Databricks and Snowflake ecosystems.
• Experience with large engagements and complex requirements.
• Proven ability to own sales proposals, RFQs, RFPs, and SOWs.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural vision for complex, concurrent data projects.
• Define standards for DataOps, modelling patterns, semantic layer.
• Roadmap AI capabilities for Agentic AI and LLM integration.
• Lead pre-sales activities including demos and RFQs/RFPs/SOWs.
• Mentor teams and drive AI initiatives across capabilities.

Skills

Consulting experience

Leadership

Data stack

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Sales proposals

Communication

Client engagement

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Python

SQL

Job description

Mantel is a leading Australian-owned IT Professional Services consultancy focused on AI, cloud, data, and security. As a Principal Analytics Engineer, you will shape Mantel’s data landscape, drive strategic analytics initiatives, and influence at executive levels across client engagements.

You will lead complex data projects, define DataOps standards, and advance AI capabilities while growing commercial opportunities and guiding client demonstrations and proposals.