Principal AI Architect & Strategy Lead - Remote

LAB3; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid workplace

Flexible work arrangements

Career growth opportunities

Inclusive culture

Strong team values

Job summary

LAB3 is seeking a Principal Consultant- AI to join our Professional Services team in Canberra. This senior, client-facing leadership role shapes, sells, and delivers high-impact AI programs for enterprise clients, spanning prototyping to production.

You will lead AI strategy engagements, design Azure-based architectures, oversee delivery, mentor engineers, and contribute to governance and responsible AI practices while working in a hybrid remote setup.

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 risk management

Pre-sales

Capability development

Governance & Responsible AI

Tools

Azure

Azure AI toolkit

MLOps

Job description

LAB3 is seeking a Principal Consultant- AI to join our Professional Services team in Canberra. This senior, client-facing leadership role shapes, sells, and delivers high-impact AI programs for enterprise clients, spanning prototyping to production.

You will lead AI strategy engagements, design Azure-based architectures, oversee delivery, mentor engineers, and contribute to governance and responsible AI practices while working in a hybrid remote setup.