Principal / Lead Azure Platform Consultant

Arinco; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive culture

Learning & certifications

Team events

Tech/home office allowance

Job summary

Arinco seeks a Principal / Lead Consultant to steer end-to-end customer projects in their Intelligent Platform Practice. You will provide expertise in Azure, AI and DevOps, and help shape offerings, IP, and knowledge sharing across teams.

You will also lead pre-sales activities, engage with clients, and ensure delivery excellence while being flexible about home/office work and client-site presence as required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing Azure-based architectures and solutions.
• Lead pre-sales meetings, workshops and assessments with customers.
• Deep DevOps depth and tooling experience, with a focus on AI technologies.
• Experience in cloud/infrastructure, systems admin, networking, consulting or related field.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end customer projects with Azure and AI focus.
• Contribute to internal engineering culture through new offerings and IP development.
• Drive pre-sales client conversations and requirements gathering.

Skills

Azure architecture

Pre-sales leadership

DevOps tooling

AI technologies familiarity

Tools

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Arinco means Artificial Intelligence Company. We are the frontier partner for the AI era, helping organisations become Frontier Firms on Microsoft by changing how work gets done across people, processes, platforms and agents. Our crew across Australia and New Zealand combines deep Microsoft expertise, trusted data, secure platforms, production-ready agents and proven Done Right™ frameworks. We work alongside customers to move AI from experimentation to practical, governed outcomes at scale.

We are reshaping our own delivery model too, using reusable agents, skills, patterns and workflows to amplify consultant expertise and create more value for customers. Joining Arinco means helping shape the future of consulting in the AI era. Named Microsoft Australia Partner of the Year 2024, Arinco has more than 250 crew members and has delivered outcomes for more than 400 customers.

Who are you and what you’ll do:

As a Principal / Lead Consultant within our Intelligent Platform Practice at Arinco you'll play a key role in the delivery of end-to-end customers projects with a focus on providing expertise in this space. You’ll also contribute to our internal engineering culture through your involvement in developing new offerings, IP and knowledge sharing and drive pre-sales client conversations.

Our ideal person will have:

• Proven and in-depth experience working with Azure technologies.This includes providing architecture and solutions designs.
• Leading pre-sales meetings, hosting workshops and customer assessments, gathering requirements to work with customers to design what “good” looks like.
• Bring technical depth in DevOps methodologies and DevOps tooling such as GitHub or Azure DevOps with your technical obsession extending to AI technologies.
• Proven experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, systems administration, networking, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting or related field

Please note that we offer a flexible work environment with the opportunity to split work between home and our office. As a customer lead 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 considercandidates with unrestricted local working rights
• We don’t require the assistance of recruitment agencies