At Intelligen, we’re building something different. Over the past three years, we’ve evolved from a bold startup to a trusted partner for some of Australia’s most complex data transformations. We’ve helped organisations move from legacy to modern platforms, embedded governance into decision-making, and brought AI into the hands of the business - responsibly and at speed.
As we continue to grow, we’re looking for senior leaders who can operate at the intersection of advanced analytics, data strategy, and modern architecture. This is a role for someone who doesn’t just design technical solutions, but helps clients navigate ambiguity, shape strategy, and build secure, scalable data capability that delivers measurable business value.
We’re seeking a Principal Data Consultant to lead high-impact engagements where analytics, insight, and enterprise data architecture converge, bringing trusted advisory capability, deep technical expertise, and delivery leadership to some of the most important transformation programs in market.
About the Role
We are seeking a Principal Data Consultant who can design, deliver, and scale advanced analytics and insight solutions in complex enterprise environments.
This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic advisory capability. You will lead high-impact engagements where data, analytics, and architecture intersect, helping organisations translate ambitious goals into secure, production-grade platforms and decisioning capabilities that drive real outcomes.
You will operate as both architect and trusted advisor, guiding executive stakeholders through the evolution of their analytics maturity while ensuring solutions align to secure-by-design principles, strong governance, and modern data management practices.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, can lead multidisciplinary teams across data engineering, analytics, and platform architecture, and is motivated by solving important client problems with clarity, rigour, and commercial focus.
What You’ll Do
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Partner with senior executives to identify high-value opportunities for advanced analytics, reporting, and decision intelligence
- Translate strategic business objectives into scalable, secure data and analytics architectures
- Guide organisations through analytics transformation, managing governance, regulatory, risk, and compliance considerations
- Architect end-to-end analytics platforms, including data pipelines, semantic models, real-time analytics, forecasting, decision support, and insight delivery
- Lead the implementation of secure data and analytics systems across modern cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Embed security, privacy, and governance into architecture and delivery decisions from the outset
- Design resilient analytics ecosystems that support trusted decision-making, operational performance, and long-term scalability
- Lead complex transformation engagements from strategy through execution
- Mentor consultants, engineers, and client teams across multidisciplinary delivery environments
- Translate technical complexity into clear decision frameworks for executives and senior stakeholders
Support the growth of Intelligen’s advanced analytics and insights capability through thought leadership, client engagement, and delivery excellence
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Requirements
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10+ years’ experience delivering advanced analytics, insights, or data transformation solutions in enterprise environments
- Proven experience designing and implementing production-grade analytics solutions, with exposure to AI-enabled use cases where relevant
- Strong expertise across modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or similar ecosystems
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
- Demonstrated leadership in large consulting, advisory, or transformation engagements
- Strong ability to work with both executive stakeholders and highly technical teams
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and guide decision-making at senior levels
- A mindset grounded in strategic thinking, delivery leadership, and measurable value creation
Core Principles for This Role
At Intelligen, we evaluate leaders not only on what they deliver, but how they think, operate, and create impact. For this role, we are especially looking for evidence of the following:
Judgment Under Ambiguity
The ability to make strong decisions with incomplete information, navigate uncertainty, and create direction in complex environments.
Insight-Led Thinking
A consistent ability to connect data, context, and business priorities to generate clear, actionable insight that supports better decision-making.
Secure-by-Design Thinking
A disciplined approach to embedding security, governance, privacy, and risk into architecture and delivery decisions from day one.
Value Creation
A focus on measurable business outcomes, ensuring strategy, analytics, and technology choices translate into meaningful impact.
Trajectory
Evidence that the candidate can already operate one level above the role, with the leadership maturity and strategic capability to scale with the business and our clients.
Systems Thinking
The ability to connect strategy, data, analytics, operations, and architecture into coherent solutions that work in practice — not just in theory.
Benefits
We’re not just delivering AI and data projects.. we’re humanising them. That means we care deeply about the how, not just the what. We value curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. We look for people who are driven to build a business, get curious, and offer opinions and ideas.
You’ll join a team that’s smart, kind, and ambitious. You’ll have real influence - in your projects, your practice, and the broader business. And as we grow, so will you.
We’re not just delivering AI and data projects.. we’re humanising them. That means we care deeply about the how, not just the what. We value curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. We look for people who are driven to build a business, get curious, and offer opinions and ideas.
You’ll join a team that’s smart, kind, and ambitious. You’ll have real influence - in your projects, your practice, and the broader business. And as we grow, so will you. Here’s what that looks like:
Grow With Purpose
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Structured development pathways so you always know what you’re working toward.
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Paid certifications across all major cloud and data technologies (mastery matters)
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Weekly training and knowledge exchanges where practitioners share real project insights.
Support That Helps You Thrive
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A dedicated support lead to mentor, guide and help you navigate your career
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Regular 360° feedback loops, giving you clear direction and honest insight into your progress.
A Community You’ll Enjoy Being Part Of
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Innovation days where you can experiment, prototype and sharpen new skills.
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Team days, social catchups, many new community clubs…
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Opportunities to lead, influence and shape our growing practice as we expand across the region.
If you want to be part of a team that cares just as much about how we deliver as what we deliver; where curiosity is valued, ideas matter, and your impact is felt - drop us a message and start the conversation today.
