Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
About the role (your why)
As a Principal Consultant you’ll lead out customer engagements, assessing their needs and developing and implementing industry leading roadmaps and solutions leveraging cloud and digital technologies.
You’ll focus on solving customer business challenges and will provide enablement not only in the technology but also in modern ways of working to support its use.
This a flexible and varied role working as part of a high performing team across a diverse range of customers, making use of all aspects of the cloud ecosystem to:
· Be a trusted advisor for all things cloud and digital
· Guide and inspire our customers on the benefits of cloud and digital
· Lead Pre-Sales engagements and help drive conversion of opportunities
· Lead strategy, assessment, and roadmap engagements
· Provide enablement & guidance in cloud native practices and modern ways of working
What you’ll bring
· You will be an experienced and trusted thought leader and be passionate about the future of work, emerging technology, cloud transformation, and solving customer challenges.
· You’ll be a cloud native who leads and inspires the benefits of cloud and emerging technology, automation, and enables a DevSecOps culture.
· You'll know that successful technology adoption requires people and process change and enablement.
· You’ll be comfortable working individually and as part of a team, and be able to take accountability of outcomes and results.
· You’ll have a strong consultative approach and great presentation skills; you’ll understand the business benefits and economics of cloud and digital technologies and be able to communicate these well in written and verbal form.
· You'll have significant experience in cloud adoption and in designing and building solutions leveraging cloud and digital technologies via AWS and/or Azure (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) including the use of IoT, data and AI.
· You'll understand modern operating models and ways of working with associated experience in enabling CloudOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, and/or Agile ways of working and practices.
· You'll have experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code with knowledge of the tools including ADO, Terraform, Cloud Formation, CDK, Bicep etc
· You’ll have strong familiarity with cloud provider specific Cloud Adoption and Well Architected Frameworks.
· You’ll be commercially astute, with experience leading proposal and SOW development, and have a reputation for delivery where joint value is realised.
· Must be an Australian Citizen willing and able to attain a minimum of NV1 Security Clearance. Must be based in Canberra.
Culture and Benefits
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.
We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.
Our digital team is very flexible around how we work and fitting work around non-negotiable other commitments is important to us.
We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.
We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.
Top Skills
What We Do
Datacom is Australasia's largest home-grown tech company. Drawing on the experience of over 6500 staff in 24 locations around the globe, we work with a full range of clients, from small start-ups through to government agencies and multinational corporations, to explore and extract the hidden value in their systems.
We bring together over half a century of know-how, the right technology and the knowledge and creativity of our people, to deliver sustainable solutions to our customers’ greatest challenges.
With our team of dedicated professionals, we work with leading partners to deliver the solutions that are right for our customers – that solve their issues and enhances their businesses.
We design, build and run IT systems and processes across operations, cybersecurity, cloud, digital platforms, payroll and enterprise applications. We deliver customer care services and operate mission-critical infrastructure with best-in-class data centre facilities – Datacom delivers on the promise: practical imagination.
