Principle (Lead) Consultant - AZURE DATA (Brisbane)

At Empired, we're passionate about Data and the critical role it plays in making today’s organizations hugely successful. Turning Data into Insights that result in actions and decisions is what drives us and what we love to deliver for our customers.

To be our Principal Consultant - Data & AI, you will have to be considered one of the ‘best of the best’ in your field. You’ll have cut your teeth building solutions on Microsoft’s Cloud Data platform and will now be engaging at a Strategic Advisory level.

Your passion will be in Business Consulting and Advisory services, delivering strategies and roadmaps, through to architecting modern cloud platforms that meet the customers’ requirements and outcomes.

You’ll have exceptional stakeholder relationship management skills coupled with technical leadership and solution ownership. You would have previously led projects and teams, developed as well as mentored others and developed a commercial understanding of running a Consulting practice.

To thrive at Empired, you will have a deep understanding and experience of enterprise data architecture patterns and processes including:  

• Knowledge of how to build a data culture and data operating model within organisations
• Knowledge of modern cloud data platforms and how to architect solutions from end-to-end using PaaS and serverless components to improve performance and reduce cost
• Strong capabilities in workshop facilitation and requirements gathering
• Suitable knowledge of the Microsoft cloud data platform including Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, SQL, SQL Data Warehouse, Databricks, Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse
• Suitable background or hands-on knowledge of the Microsoft AI & ML, Azure integration stack & Azure IoT stack
• Suitable background or hands-on knowledge of the Microsoft DevOps stack including CI/CD toolsets and processes

Your responsibilities will encompass the following: 

• Delivering data-oriented solutions utilising big data, data warehousing, operational insight, data management or business intelligence
• Engaging with customers at a strategic level to develop data strategies and architectures
• Developing roadmaps and transition architectures to attain future-states
• Working on business cases and investment maps for communication to Execs and Boards
• Constructing estimates and statements of work
• Presenting and demonstrating to customers to showcase platform features and build trust in Empired's capability

Empired helps organisations across Australasia to transform, thrive and stay relevant as digital businesses in an ever-changing world. Using technology as the enabler, we assist businesses to engage customers, increase efficiency, improve productivity and achieve competitive advantage.
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