13th January, 2026
Principal Engineer (Data & AI Platform) - 12 Months day rate Contract - AWS SageMaker
About the company
Our client is a major Australian enterprise undergoing significant AI-driven transformation. The organisation is scaling its data and AI capability, investing in modern platforms, and building future-ready foundations to enable secure, enterprise-wide AI innovation.
About the role
This Principal Data Engineer role leads the hands-on build of a new AI and ML platform. Reporting to a Product Owner and working in a small cross-functional team, it drives platform engineering, architecture, delivery, and user enablement across the enterprise.
Benefits
- Competitive daily rate
- High-impact greenfield program
- Opportunity to set enterprise AI platform standards
- Flexible ways of working
- Work with modern cloud-native technologies and emerging AI capability
Duties / Key responsibilities - Lead the build and operationalisation of the AI Workbench platform
- Develop CI/CD, IaC, architecture artefacts, and scalable platform components
- Provide technical leadership across cloud-native AI/ML services
- Support user onboarding, platform adoption, optimisation, and performance
- Mentor engineers and collaborate across architecture, security, and product teams
Skills and experience - 10+ years delivering large-scale data and AI/ML platforms
- Expertise across AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, S3, IAM) and cloud-native engineering
- Strong skills in Terraform/CloudFormation and CI/CD
- Experience establishing platform engineering standards in greenfield environments
- Ability to translate architecture into actionable technical design
- Strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Familiarity with LLMs, GenAI tooling, and prompt engineering (desirable)
- AWS or DevOps/ML Ops certifications (desirable)
If you’re interested in this opportunity and feel you’re the right fit please click “apply”
About Allura Partners Allura Partners was founded to support private equity firms by placing C-Suites to lead, transform, and scale portfolio companies. Today, in addition to our proven private equity specialisation, we’ve become a trusted partner for major ASX-listed and private enterprises in Australia, offering executive search, recruitment, and business transformation. Known for integrity, reliability, and results, our expertise spans Executive Search, Accounting & Finance, Transformation & Change, and Technology & Digital. We connect businesses and top-tier talent, exceeding expectations and driving lasting impact.
Principal Engineer (Data & AI Platform) - 12 Months day rate Contract - AWS SageMaker
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