Principal AI Architect & Client Advisory (Remote)

LAB3; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

LAB3 is seeking a Principal Consultant - AI to lead high-impact Azure AI programs for enterprise clients. The role spans prototyping to production, shaping strategies, architectures and delivery roadmaps while mentoring senior engineers.

You will drive governance, security, and responsible AI practices, participate in pre-sales, and contribute to LAB3’s AI standards and accelerators across the lifecycle. Flexible remote/hybrid work is available within Australia.

Qualifications

• Extensive consulting experience delivering AI programs to enterprise and/or government organisations.
• Experience running client workshops and gathering business requirements.
• Azure solution architecture and the broader Azure AI toolkit.
• Deep understanding of modern application architecture.
• Experience delivering Agentic/ GenAI solutions and frameworks.
• Strong grasp of platform engineering, observability and enterprise security and compliance patterns & ideally MLOps.

Responsibilities

• Client Leadership & Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise clients, lead AI strategy engagements from use case prioritisation and value articulation through to architecture design and delivery roadmaps, running workshops, gathering requirements and translating business objectives into scalable Azure AI architectures and operating models
• Architectural leadership: Across Agentic AI, GenAI, RAG, MLOps & underlying and data platforms on Azure, defining reference architectures, design patterns and requirements.
• Delivery Oversight & Risk Management: Own end to end technical accountability & risk-management for large or complex AI programs.
• Pre-sales: contribute to presales & commercial activities including discovery, solution shaping, SOW input and technical assurance, contributing to win strategy through differentiated architecture, compelling client narratives and proof of concept or demo delivery as required
• Capability & Practice development: Mentor Senior Engineers and Consultants, contribute to LAB3's AI standards and accelerators, and represent the practice externally through thought leadership and client showcases
• Governance, Security & Responsible AI: Set best practice approaches for AI governance, risk, compliance, and ethics, ensure solutions align with enterprise security models & champion responsible AI principles

Skills

Client leadership

Architectural leadership

Delivery oversight

Pre-sales

Mentor engineers

Governance & security

Tools

Azure

GenAI

Agentic AI

MLOps

RAG

Job description

LAB3 is seeking a Principal Consultant - AI to lead high-impact Azure AI programs for enterprise clients. The role spans prototyping to production, shaping strategies, architectures and delivery roadmaps while mentoring senior engineers.

You will drive governance, security, and responsible AI practices, participate in pre-sales, and contribute to LAB3’s AI standards and accelerators across the lifecycle. Flexible remote/hybrid work is available within Australia.