27th February, 2026
Principal Platform Engineer (Data & AI) - 12 Months daily rate contract role - Sydney - Sagemaker - Bedrock - AWS
About the company
Our client is a leading enterprise organisation in Australia operating in a complex, highly regulated environment. With a large, distributed workforce and significant digital investment, the business is accelerating its AI strategy to enable enterprise-wide innovation, scalability, and secure data-driven decision making.
About the role
Reporting to the Product Owner, you will act as Technical Lead within a small cross-functional team, mentoring a Solution Architect, Cloud Engineer, and Data Platform Engineer. You will lead hands-on delivery of an enterprise AI Workbench, shaping platform engineering standards, enabling AI adoption, and delivering production capability.
This is a 12 months daily rate contract with high chance of extension. Client is based in Sydney and hybrid working.
Benefits
- Day Rate contract - competitive rate
- 12 Months contract
- Hybrid working
- Greenfield platform build with enterprise impact
- High-visibility role aligned to enterprise AI strategy
- Opportunity to define platform engineering standards from day one
- Work with modern AWS-native AI and ML tooling
- Collaborative, cross-functional environment
- Strong focus on innovation, scalability, and long-term capability uplift
Duties / Key Responsibilities - Lead hands-on build and operationalisation of the AI Workbench platform
- Deliver production-ready ML and Gen AI capabilities with monthly release cadence
- Develop CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code templates, and operational artefacts
- Provide technical leadership across AWS-native AI/ML services and data integration
- Enable onboarding, performance monitoring, governance alignment, and platform adoption
Skills and Experience - 10+ years designing and operating enterprise Data and AI/ML platforms
- Deep AWS expertise including SageMaker, Bedrock, S3, IAM and DevOps tooling
- Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD
- Proven delivery of secure, governed, cost-optimised AI platforms
- Experience establishing platform engineering standards in greenfield environments
- Ability to translate architecture into detailed technical design and backlog items
- Strong stakeholder engagement and mentoring capability
- Familiarity with prompt engineering and Gen AI tooling highly regarded
- AWS or relevant 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 Platform Engineer (Data & AI) - 12 Months daily rate contract role - Sydney - Sagemaker - Bedrock - AWS
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