At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together.
We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow.
Job DescriptionNCS is significantly expanding its capabilities in intelligent automation and digital transformation. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Technical Consultant to join our rapidly growing Power Platform and AI Solutions team.
In this pivotal role, you will be the driving force behind the delivery of sophisticated, end-to-end solutions for both our new and existing enterprise customers. This is an exciting opportunity to apply deep technical expertise to solve complex business problems, leveraging the full stack of the Microsoft Power Platform, Azure services, and emerging AI technologies.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop Power Platform and AI solutions.
- Facilitate and run scoping and discovery workshops to ensure customer requirements are understood and delivered.
- Shape and lead all ongoing planning, design and technical conversations with our customers.
- Craft technical visions by mapping requirements to technical capabilities and translate into functional designs and technical specifications.
- Creation of solution design and as-built documentation for sign-off and ensuring quality future-proofed solutions.
- Lead technical resources for both onshore and offshore squad teams on Power Platform engagements, ensuring quality and timely completion.
- Assist in Pre-sales engagements, create estimates and designs for bespoke solutions, and develop go-to-market offering.
- Work with the PM to plan and coordinate project sprints and development efforts across the dev team.
- Facilitate product demo’s and training sessions.
- Mentor junior consultants and share best practices.
- Coordinate testing, deployments and production support, as well as troubleshoot issues and optimize performance.
- Perform any other duties, tasks or projects may be assigned and demonstrate commitment and behaviours consistent with NCS values.
Key Challenges
- Ability to work within a newly created practice as internal processes and frameworks are defined.
- Ability to be a mentor project team members while juggling customer and internal demands.
- Able to prioritise a variety of tasks across multiple clients and delivery tasks
- Travel flexibility to go meet and work with on delivering solutions to our customers
- A strong track record in delivering quality Power Platform outcomes with demonstrable project success within large scale, enterprise-level IT projects, end-to-end
- Strong Power Apps background and experience
- Highly developed written communication ability, including production of high-quality technical artefacts and presales contributions (proposals, presentations, SOWs) writing requirements, configuration, testing and deployment documents
- Expert organisational skills; experience working in a high volume and demanding professional environment with proven capacity to prioritise, multi-task and always work with a client-focused approach
- Experience developing bespoke Power Platform offerings and associated go to market plans
- Experience working within an agile delivery framework
- Expert organisational skills: experience working in a high volume and demanding professional environment with proven capacity to prioritise, multi-task and always work with a client-focused approach
- IT Degree or equivalent in employment experience
- Microsoft certified in D365/Power Platform
Essential:
- Apigee X Expertise: Strong hands-on experience designing, engineering, and operating Apigee X (or Apigee Edge) in enterprise environments.
- GCP Infrastructure & Security: Deep experience across GCP platform services (IAM, Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, Cloud Run, Cloud Logging) and cloud networking (VPC, Private Service Connect, ILB, Private Service Access).
- Vertex AI Integration: Practical experience integrating Vertex AI or managed GCP ML services through secure enterprise platform paths.
- Identity & Security Protocols: Strong mastery of REST, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT validation, and federated identity integration.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep proficiency with Terraform and modern GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Desirable:
- Exposure to Apigee LLM policies (token quotas, prompt limits, model operation groups) or Google Cloud Model Armor / Cloud DLP.
- Experience with enterprise observability toolsets (Dynatrace, ELK, or Cortex XSIAM) or BigQuery log analytics.
- Familiarity with FinOps cost-allocation labeling, billing exports, or consumer-level chargeback models for AI workloads.
- Exposure to cross-cloud AI gateway patterns (e.g., AWS Bedrock, AWS SigV4) or Model Context Protocol (MCP) / agentic AI frameworks.
Why NCS?
This is a place for people who like to get stuck in, bring ideas to life and make things happen. You'll work alongside experienced people who care about what they do, contribute to meaningful work and have the support to keep learning and grow your career. Whether you want to deepen your expertise, explore something new or take your career in a different direction, there's room to make it your own. We value Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership and Unity - bringing curiosity, collaboration and accountability to the way we work with our clients and each other.
Ready to make extraordinary happen?
We'd love to hear from you.
We celebrate diversity and inclusion
We value different perspectives, experiences and strengths our people bring. We're committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to contribute, grow and succeed, and to providing equal employment opportunities and reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Important information
Applicants will need valid Australian work rights and may be required to undergo relevant background, probity and police checks.
Agencies: NCS accepts candidate submissions only from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal.
Skills Required
- Strong track record delivering quality Power Platform solutions in large-scale enterprise IT projects
- Strong Power Apps experience
- Highly developed written communication skills, including technical documentation and presales materials
- Expert organisational skills and ability to prioritise and multitask in a demanding professional environment
- Experience developing bespoke Power Platform offerings and go-to-market plans
- Experience working within an agile delivery framework
- IT degree or equivalent employment experience
- Microsoft certification in Dynamics 365 or Power Platform
- Hands-on enterprise experience designing, engineering, and operating Apigee X or Apigee Edge
- Deep experience with GCP services including IAM, Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, Cloud Run, and Cloud Logging
- Experience with GCP cloud networking, including VPC, Private Service Connect, ILB, and Private Service Access
- Practical experience integrating Vertex AI or managed GCP machine learning services through secure enterprise platform paths
- Mastery of REST, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT validation, and federated identity integration
- Deep proficiency with Terraform and modern GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Exposure to Apigee LLM policies or Google Cloud Model Armor and Cloud DLP
- Experience with Dynatrace, ELK, Cortex XSIAM, or BigQuery log analytics
- Familiarity with FinOps cost allocation, billing exports, or consumer-level chargeback models for AI workloads
- Exposure to cross-cloud AI gateway patterns such as AWS Bedrock or AWS SigV4, or MCP and agentic AI frameworks
What We Do
NCS in Australia is reinventing technology services from the inside out. We provide advisory, design, build and managed services to our clients, with unrivalled service, attention and understanding every step of the way. We understand day 1001 is just an important as day 1, and we collaborate with clients, striving to provide adaptive approaches, outcomes and thinking by keeping our eye on tomorrow and the days after tomorrow. Our diverse workforce of around 1,300 people has delivered a wealth of large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform outcomes for governments and businesses nationally. We are the Australian arm of the pan-APAC technology leader NCS Group, a subsidiary of Singtel Group. Combining the experience and expertise of its 13,000-strong team across 57 specialisations, NCS provides differentiated and end-to-end technology services to clients with its capabilities in digital, data, cloud and platforms, as well as core offerings in application, infrastructure, engineering and cybersecurity. NCS also believes in building a strong partner ecosystem with leading technology players, research institutions and start-ups to support open innovation and co-creation. For more information about NCS Australia, visit ncs.co/en-au or contact our team today. To learn more about NCS Group, visit ncs.co.
