Position: Principal Consultant Data & Analytics
Datacom Location: Wellington Onsite
Security Requirements: NZ Citizens only, New Zealand Security Clearances are desirable.
Full Time, Permanent Position.
About us
At Datacom, we combine technology, expertise, and talented people to help organisations thrive in a rapidly changing world. As one of Australasia's leading technology providers, we work with customers across industries to solve real-world problems and deliver meaningful outcomes.
Whether we're supporting governments, enterprise organisations, or growing businesses, we're committed to creating meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities, and each other.
About the Role
As a Principal Consultant, you will not only lead technical delivery but also play a key role in shaping client solutions that drive business outcomes and support pre-sales engagements.
You will be asked to design, implement and own the delivery of robust Data Platform solutions and end-to-end components. This is a client focused role, so you'll need to be an excellent communicator and good with people. The Principal Consultant works closely with practice leads, project managers, and client stakeholders and teams.
The Data and AI team are a progressive group of diverse and creative individuals with a deep love for all things data related. They build platforms and solutions that are leading edge and at the forefront of the technology curve. A close knit and fun team embedded within our rapidly growing Professional Services division, and part of the wider Datacom ecosystem.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with sales and account teams to shape proposals and solution designs during pre-sales engagements.
- Lead client presentations and solution walkthroughs to articulate value and differentiation.
- Identify opportunities for upselling and expanding service offerings within existing accounts.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops to gather and clarify business requirements
- Lead the technical architecture, design and delivery for new Modern Data Platform solutions.
- Provide overall thought leadership to our clients regarding data analytics and integration recommendations.
- Provide thought leadership around the effective us of AI in the data platform landscape.
- Perform performance tuning/optimisation, and feature audits on data platform solutions.
- Provide detailed documentation, end user training and knowledge-transfer services to clients, and internal teams.
- Mentor developers, acting as an SME in data platform/warehouse architectures and data modelling
What You’ll Bring
- Proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders and influence buying decisions.
- Experience in pre-sales solutioning, proposal development, and client presentations.
- Commercial acumen and ability to align technical solutions with business value.
- Strong consultation and client management skills.
- Advanced skills and a proven track-record of building data solutions in cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS & GCP
- Advanced skills in data platforms such Fabric, Snowflake and Databricks
- Advanced ETL/ELT process design and implementation with tools such as Synapse Analytics, Fabric Data Factory, Snowflake, Coalesce, Fivetran, Matillion, dbt and AWS Glue
- Advanced data modelling skills across conceptual, logical and physical modes based on techniques such as ER, Dimensional, Object-Oriented, NoSQL and Data Vault
- Advanced skills and real-world experience with based Python development in modern data platforms
- Experience using Informatica IDMC or on-prem solutions
Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline
- Minimum 8+ years’ experience in EDW design and implementation.
- Minimum 8+ years’ experience in ETL architecting and design.
- Minimum 8+ years’ experience in data modelling
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience in semantic layer development.
- Minimum 3+ years’ experience in Power BI architectures
- Minimum 3+ years’ experience in pre-sales solutioning, commercial proposal development, and client solution presentations
Culture and benefits
Join a team where you'll be supported to grow your career, prioritise your wellbeing, and make a genuine impact. From industry-leading learning and development opportunities to parental leave, wellbeing support, and employee benefits, we're committed to helping our people thrive both professionally and personally
We're passionate about creating a workplace where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to do their best work. Whether you're developing new skills, tackling complex challenges, or collaborating with some of the best minds in the industry, you'll be part of a team that values curiosity, innovation, inclusion, and making a genuine difference.
Why you will love working here
- Paid parental leave
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (DataCare)
- Ongoing learning, certifications, and career development opportunities
- Access to industry-leading learning platforms and future skills training
- Recognition programmes that celebrate great work
- Great employee discounts and financial wellbeing benefits
- Meaningful work that makes a real impact
Skills Required
- Must be a New Zealand citizen or resident
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline
- Minimum 8+ years experience in EDW design and implementation
- Minimum 8+ years experience in ETL architecting and design
- Minimum 8+ years experience in data modelling
- Minimum 5+ years experience in semantic layer development
- Minimum 3+ years experience in Power BI architectures
- Minimum 3+ years experience in pre-sales solutioning and commercial proposal development
- Advanced skills building data solutions in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Advanced skills in data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake and Databricks
- Advanced ETL/ELT design and implementation experience with Synapse Analytics, Fabric Data Factory / Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Coalesce, Fivetran, Matillion, dbt, AWS Glue
- Advanced data modelling skills (ER, Dimensional, Object-Oriented, NoSQL, Data Vault)
- Proven Python development experience in modern data platforms
- Experience using Informatica IDMC or on-prem Informatica solutions
- Proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders and influence buying decisions; strong consultation and client management skills
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring developers, and delivering client-facing workshops and documentation
- Security clearances desirable
Datacom Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Datacom and has not been reviewed or approved by Datacom.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare support includes complimentary health insurance packages in Australia and New Zealand alongside employee assistance programs. Wellbeing resources and on‑site meditation rooms are highlighted as part of the offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Flexible and remote work support, plus discounts on gyms, travel, and selected retailers, are prominently featured. The package emphasizes work–life balance and lifestyle support alongside core benefits.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible working is promoted across locations, with hybrid/remote arrangements positioned as standard practice where feasible. Benefits are framed as locally tailored by country and business unit, reflecting adaptability to context.
Datacom Insights
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.
