Remote Principal AI Architect & Strategy Leader

LAB3; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

LAB3 is a premier Azure engineering partner delivering leading AI, data, IoT, and security solutions. The Principal Consultant‑AI role leads client engagements, shaping AI programs from prototype to production, with responsibilities across architecture, governance, and delivery.

You’ll steer high‑impact initiatives, mentor engineers, and contribute to pre‑sales and practice development across LAB3’s AI portfolio.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large client engagements.
• Strong commercial acumen: value framing, estimation, scope control.
• Exceptional communication—credible with executives and technical teams alike.
• Ability to coach, influence, and set direction without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders.
• Lead AI strategy engagements, including use case prioritization and delivery roadmaps.
• Translate business strategy into scalable AI architectures and operating models.
• Provide architectural leadership across Agentic AI, GenAI, RAG, MLOps, and data platforms on Azure.
• Define reference architectures, nonfunctional requirements, and design patterns for enterprise AI systems.
• Review and approve HLD/LLD produced by delivery teams; intervene on complex designs.
• Guide model selection, orchestration patterns, governance approaches, and platform choices.
• Own end to end technical accountability for large or complex AI programs.
• Derisk delivery through early architecture validation, proof points, and phased adoption strategies.
• Establish delivery standards across security, observability, MLOps, and responsible AI.
• Support engagement leads with estimates, delivery plans, and dependency management.
• Lead or support pre‑sales activities including discovery, solution shaping, estimates, SOW input, and technical assurance.
• Contribute to win‑strategy through differentiated architecture, accelerators, and compelling narratives.
• Act as a technical escalation point during bids and client negotiations.
• Define and evolve AI standards, accelerators, and reusable assets for LAB3.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and Consultants; uplift architectural thinking and consulting maturity.
• Contribute to hiring, role design, and skills benchmarking.
• Represent LAB3 externally through thought leadership, client showcases, and partner engagements.
• Set best practice approaches for AI governance, risk, compliance, and ethics.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise security models.
• Champion responsible AI principles.

Skills

Azure AI Foundry

Azure AI Search

Agentic AI

GenAI

RAG

MLOps

Observability

Security

Tools

AKS

Databricks

Fabric

Job description

LAB3 is a premier Azure engineering partner delivering leading AI, data, IoT, and security solutions. The Principal Consultant‑AI role leads client engagements, shaping AI programs from prototype to production, with responsibilities across architecture, governance, and delivery.

You’ll steer high‑impact initiatives, mentor engineers, and contribute to pre‑sales and practice development across LAB3’s AI portfolio.