Principal AI Architect & Enterprise Strategy Lead

Colonial Group; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

LAB3 in Australasia seeks a Principal Consultant- AI to join our Professional Services team. This senior, client-facing leadership role shapes, sells, and delivers high-impact AI programs across the lifecycle from prototyping to production.

You will lead AI strategy engagements, architect Azure-based solutions, and mentor engineers while contributing to pre-sales and governance. Based in Australia, you should be a citizen, ideally with security clearance, and comfortable in a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading enterprise AI programs.
• Deep expertise with Azure AI services and GenAI/Agentic AI.
• Strong advisory and client-facing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI strategy engagements and workshops.
• Define reference architectures and roadmaps on Azure.
• Oversee delivery, risk, and governance for AI programs.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to LAB3's AI standards.

Skills

Azure architecture

GenAI/Agentic AI

MLOps

Security & Governance

Pre-sales support

Tools

Azure AI Toolkit

Copilot Studio

Azure OpenAI

Model Context Protocol

Job description

LAB3 in Australasia seeks a Principal Consultant- AI to join our Professional Services team. This senior, client-facing leadership role shapes, sells, and delivers high-impact AI programs across the lifecycle from prototyping to production.

You will lead AI strategy engagements, architect Azure-based solutions, and mentor engineers while contributing to pre-sales and governance. Based in Australia, you should be a citizen, ideally with security clearance, and comfortable in a hybrid work model.