Principal Consultant / Principal Engineer (NV1 / AFP) 🇦🇺
📍 Location (Australia): Flexible / Hybrid / Remote
💼 Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time
💰 Base (AUD): 180k – 230k per annum + benefits
📅 Start Date: Immediate/negotiable
🚀 The Opportunity
We are seeking a Principal Consultant/Principal Engineer to serve as the primary technical authority and trusted advisor for complex, high-impact client engagements within large, regulated organisations.
In this role, you will lead technical strategy and delivery, guide senior stakeholders through complex decisions, and help shape technology direction across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You’ll combine deep hands-on expertise with strong consulting skills — building trust with clients while elevating engineering standards internally.
This is a senior, influential role for someone who enjoys owning outcomes, navigating ambiguity, and shaping both technical solutions and delivery practices.
🧠 What You’ll Be Responsible For
Acting as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders
Leading end-to-end delivery: concept → design → implementation → Day-2 operations
Designing and delivering secure, scalable, cloud-native and distributed systems
Applying DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE principles to complex delivery environments
Guiding teams through complex technical challenges, including deep root cause analysis
Facilitating blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement
Managing stakeholder expectations, risks, scope, and dependencies
Mentoring and coaching senior and mid-level engineers and consultants
Supporting pre-sales and solution design, including PoCs and technical proposals
Identifying follow-on and net-new opportunities within existing client engagements
Shaping internal engineering standards, delivery practices, and capabilities
Contributing to practice development and representing the organisation internally and externally
🔍 What We’re Looking For
You’re a senior technologist with strong consulting instincts and the confidence to lead in complex environments.
You bring:
10+ years’ experience across software engineering, architecture, and operations
Deep experience delivering multi-cloud and hybrid solutions at enterprise scale
Strong hands-on background with cloud-native and distributed systems
Proven application of DevOps / DevSecOps / SRE practices
Experience designing data-centric and event-driven architectures
Ability to translate complex business needs into practical, high-quality technical solutions
Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills
Calm, pragmatic leadership style — especially under pressure or ambiguity
Strong analytical, root-cause analysis, and structured thinking skills
Passion for continuous learning and emerging technologies
✨ Bonus experience:
MLOps and AI-enabled systems (e.g. RAG, agent frameworks, guardrails)
Public speaking, internal enablement, or conference presentations
🎓 Qualifications (Nice to Have)
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar
Vendor certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP, Red Hat, IBM, etc.)
📈 How Success Is Measured
You’ll be successful if you:
Deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions that create long-term client value
Are recognised as a trusted advisor by clients and delivery teams
Lead high-quality outcomes while balancing risk, value, and commercial impact
Strengthen internal practices, standards, and technical capability
Uphold strong delivery governance and quality controls
Receive consistently strong feedback from clients and peers
🤝 Why Join?
Work on high-impact, complex client challenges
Operate at the intersection of technology, strategy, and delivery
Influence architecture, standards, and engineering culture
Collaborate with competent engineers and consultants
Long-term focus on quality, trust, and sustainable outcomes
👉 Apply
SourceIn (sourcein.co) has been formally appointed by the client to provide recruitment and candidate pre-screening services for this role.