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About the Role

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be responsible for technical excellence in project delivery, providing technical leadership and influence across teams and organizations. You will pioneer new data architectures, achieve customer satisfaction by leading data teams, identify and course-correct project pain points, and drive commercial growth through project delivery and opportunity identification. You will also maintain partner relationships, build Mantel's reputation as an expert, and shape the company's capability and standards.

Responsibilities

Be responsible for technical excellence in the delivery of our projects.
Proactively seek involvement from the wider Mantel technical teams to ensure consistency in technical delivery across projects.
Be a leader whose technical leadership and influence spans across individuals, teams, entire accounts and the broader organisations both within Mantel, our clients, partners and the broader industry.
Have a deep focus on leadership impact (e.g. people, project team health, organisation, tech).
Pioneer the adoption of new data architectures (e.g., unified real-time data/AI platforms) to unlock next-generation AI capabilities (e.g., large-scale GenAI, real-time reinforcement learning) across the business.
Achieve customer satisfaction by leading data teams and delivering on data projects - sometimes concurrently - irrespective of size, complexity & ambiguity to achieve fantastic outcomes.
Be able to quickly identify pain points in challenging projects and successfully course correct to get them back on track to achieve successful outcomes.
Drive commercial growth by delivering projects to successful commercial outcomes, developing IP to enable unique offerings, identifying and pursuing new opportunities, persuasive conversations with clients, as well as having a meaningful impact across pre-sales initiatives, particularly with technical input and developing RFQs, RFPs, SOWs.
Possess deep commercial awareness and help shape healthy project economics in various ways e.g. supporting resourcing decisions.
Drive and maintain deep relationships with partners (e.g. Google, AWS, Databricks, dbt, Snowflake, Microsoft) and/or clients, supporting Mantel to be positioned as a partner & service provider of choice.
Build Mantel’s reputation as a known expert through industry platforms, professional networks, and community events to enhance market awareness (e.g. blogs, technical talks, meet-ups etc).
Be a leading voice shaping the capability, domain and Mantel towards further standards of excellence and quality.
Identify areas of focus that have the biggest impact e.g. developing individuals, developing better processes and approaches, strategic recruitment.

Requirements

Extensive consulting and technical experience with a proven track record of influencing technical and business leaders at Head of, GM, and CxO levels.
Strong understanding of the modern data stack and its role in creating AI-ready data architectures.
Deep hands-on knowledge of the modern data ecosystems (especially Databricks / Snowflake), with a focus on how these platforms enable enterprise-wide analytics.
Technical brilliance across a broad range of cloud-native services.
Experience working on large engagements and the ability to understand complex customer requirements and apply technology solutions to meet business problems.
Experience in large and complex RFP responses, solution design, ability to articulate the value proposition of an overall solution.
Proven experience and ability to own the preparation of sales presentations, proposals, documents and artefacts.
Strong influencing and negotiation skills with the ability to handle objections and be persuasive when proposing solutions and products.
Self-motivated and hands-on approach, adept at navigating ambiguity to find solutions.
You take ownership, always stepping up to help and prioritising your teammates.
You're also a clear, kind communicator who makes sound decisions based on good judgement.
Treating colleagues and clients with respect, compassion, and professionalism in alignment with our five principles.

Skills

AI
Digital
Cloud
Data
Security technology
Agentic AI solutions
GenAI
Real-time reinforcement learning
Databricks
Snowflake
Cloud-native services

Location

Australia
New Zealand

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal

Benefits

My Deal program allows you to tailor your yearly plan
New phone, laptop & swag
Access to the Mantel AI Gateway
Dedicated monthly budget for AI experimentation
Flexible Personal Leave options
Internal opportunities across Cloud, Data, Digital, Delivery & Security
Certified Family Inclusive Workplace

About the Company

Mantel is an Australian-owned IT Professional Services consultancy, focused on emerging technology to help advance our clients by leveraging AI, Digital, Cloud, Data & Security technology.
We are a fully AI-enabled technology consultancy and the partner that bridges the gap between blue-sky ambition and practical steps to deliver value.
Since our inception in November 2017, we have experienced remarkable growth across Australia & New Zealand and are honoured to be recognised as a Great Place to Work for 7 years in a row!
We hire smart and talented people and get out of their way.
As a principle-based organisation, we have a flat structure with no hierarchy.
Working in data at Mantel means you'll be ahead of the curve.
You can align to a particular cloud platform or remain cloud agnostic, specialising in analytics, data engineering, machine learning, analytics, or data science.
We support a flexible hybrid approach to working which is guided by our principles; we trust each other to “make good choices” about the best workplace locations for the requirements of the project, role and client.
Our elite partnerships are a direct result of our deep platform mastery.
For you, this means you'll be working alongside teams with the highest levels of technical expertise and tackling the most complex, high-profile projects on the market.