We’re looking for a Senior Digital Principal Consultant to join our Build Professional Services practice — a senior leader who thrives at the intersection of people leadership, delivery excellence, and customer impact.
This is a pivotal opportunity for an experienced practice leader who wants to shape strategy, scale high-performing teams, and partner with customers on complex, high-value engagements that deliver real outcomes.
What You’ll Be Doing
Lead and assure the delivery of complex, strategic engagements, acting as a trusted advisor to senior customers and providing delivery escalation support.
Shape solutions and Statements of Work by engaging early in presales and partnering closely with Growth and Advisory teams.
Lead and grow a practice‑aligned team of consultants and engineers, building strong capability, succession and career pathways.
Drive recruitment, retention and engagement while fostering a strong delivery mindset and engineering culture.
Act as a custodian of your practice, championing standards, learning, reusable IP and community participation.
What You’ll Bring
Deep expertise across software architecture, hands‑on engineering, and delivery of production‑ready systems
A proven track record leading and developing engineering teams, including people leadership and performance management
Strong capability to partner with senior business and technology stakeholders, translating complex requirements into pragmatic technical solutions
Demonstrated experience across the full client lifecycle — from presales shaping and solution design through to successful delivery
A flexible, collaborative consulting mindset, able to adapt across clients, teams, and delivery environments
Solid understanding of Agile delivery frameworks and modern engineering practices
Confidence engaging executive‑level customers as a trusted technical advisor
Experience shaping solutions, reviewing Statements of Work, and supporting commercial outcomes
A relevant degree (IT, Engineering, or equivalent) and industry certifications across delivery, Agile and/or cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Background working in a Professional Services or Consulting environment
Life at Versent
We're a diverse team of motivated humans who think outside the box and strive to deliver what others might consider impossible. At Versent we truly care about our people and put real focus on cultivating a culture of learning, collaboration and growth. We provide our teams with the space, trust, and support, to deliver the best work of their careers. To enable this, we have a culture that places a high value on continual feedback, excellence, and invention anchored in customer success.
We also offer our team:
Flexibility: We give you the freedom to excel, providing as much autonomy and flexibility around when you work so you can manage your time in a way that best suits you to get the job done.
Learning: We are passionate about continuous improvement and care about you investing in and developing your craft. Our Craft 180 Program is a holistic strategy for ongoing, meaningful skill and capability development with an ultimate goal to create an environment where people can learn and contribute in different ways to develop, practice and become masters of their craft.
Access to Benefits That Fit Your Life: From salary packaging and purchased leave to novated leasing options, we offer a range of benefits designed to suit different lifestyles and priorities. There’s something for everyone.
Health & Wellbeing Programmes: We focus on you as a whole person, with wellbeing initiatives that are to support you mentally, physically, emotionally and financially.
Connection: Regular social activities across your team and the organisation.
Recognition: We offer several reward & recognition programmes to acknowledge the amazing work that you do!
Career opportunity: We provide the opportunity to work on diverse projects and initiatives that enable you to create a brilliant career.
At Versent, we don't adhere to a one-size-fits-all hiring strategy. We understand that you might not fulfill all the criteria for this position. Our celebration of diverse perspectives isn't just a value, it's a way to gain an edge. If you believe this opportunity is where you can thrive, don't be shy and apply!
If you require any accommodations throughout the interview process, please get in touch with us by emailing [email protected].
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What We Do
Versent is an Australian-born technology company, focused on architecting, building & operating cloud native applications, data streams, platforms, and services. We take a customer first, outcomes driven approach. Our solutions are centred around the best of breed public cloud technology. From a stand-still start in 2014, we have grown to a tight team of over 600 family members both locally and internationally, with a diversified offering in professional services and managed services. With a focus on bringing craftsmanship back to technology, Versent built a team of passionate technologists who truly care about achieving quality outcomes, building lasting relationships and delivering on what we promise. As Australia’s most experienced and trusted partner, Versent has considerable experience in both successfully delivering digital projects and providing managed services support
